Fatigue Damage Mechanism and Fatigue Life Prediction of Metallic Materials
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Metal Failure Analysis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 25097
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fatigue; life prediction; optimal design; nonlinear damage; constitutive relationship; advanced alloys
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Metals and alloys are widely used in engineering applications, often requiring careful consideration of complex loading conditions and usually limited by fatigue and fracture performance. The behaviour of metals and alloys under fatigue loading is a multi-scale, complex problem involving microscopic damage initiation, small crack formation, coalescence, propagation and eventually macroscopic fracture failure.
To study the fatigue of metallic materials, experimental, theoretical and numerical methods need to be developed. Novel testing and characterization techniques such as in situ observation, non-contact measurement and microscopic characterization provide insights into the fatigue process and damage mechanisms. Techniques for testing advanced fatigue life facilitate the generation of fatigue performance data. Fatigue and fracture theory, cyclic constitutive relationships, numerical simulations or data-driven methods enable the creation of accurate fatigue life prediction models, as well as optimal design for improved fatigue life.
In addition, fatigue is also affected by many factors, such as extreme conditions that involve multi-axis stress, high strain rates, and ultra-high/low temperatures, combined loads that involve thermal, mechanical and irradiation loadings, microstructure heterogeneities such as defects, texture, crystal orientation, and grain morphology, to name a few. It is important to investigate metal fatigue under these conditions. With the development of novel techniques for manufacturing metallic materials, the relationship between processing, structure and fatigue property has also become an important topic.
This Special Issue aims to present recent research advancements regarding the fatigue of metallic materials. Potential topics may cover, but are not limited to, experimental testing, characterization, theory development and modelling of the fatigue behaviour of various metallic materials over different scales, with one or multiple physical processes. We also encourage the submission of research articles that integrate experimental or situational data with data-driven algorithms into the analysis of fatigue performance.
Prof. Dr. Haitao Cui
Dr. Qinan Han
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fatigue
- life prediction
- damage mechanism
- failure analysis
- numerical simulation
- cyclic constitutive relationship
- optimal design
- fatigue characterization
- extreme conditions
- crack behavior
- data-driven method
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