Fracture & Failure Prevent: Reliability, Proactivity and Practice
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Mechanical Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 5441
Special Issue Editors
2. Research and Development Unit for Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (UNIDEMI), 1070-312 Lisboa, Portugal
3. Navy Research Center (CINAV), 2810-001 Almada, Portugal
Interests: mechanics of fracture; instrumentation; mechanical tests; experimental stress analysis; mechanical behavior of materials; structural durability; manufacturing processes; processes and maintenance management
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2. CINAV – Navy Research Center, Alfeite, 2810-001 Almada, Portugal
Interests: ship condition control; quality systems and maintenance management
Interests: additive manufacture; direct digital manufacturing; CFRP and GFRP with long and short fibers; multifunctional materials/smart materials/metamaterials; fatigue of materials/structural durability; fatigue of welded and adhesive joints; fatigue of weld-bonding joints; total quality management/LEAN and 6 Sigma/quality improvement
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The prevention of fracture and failure is a highly multidisciplinary research field, especially when it comes to reliability, proactivity, and practice. It combines technological and scientific methods to produce, model, and understand physical phenomena in mechanics, materials, structural integrity, and design. Submissions are invited of both original research and review articles. Additionally, invited papers based on excellent contributions to the 9th International Conference on Mechanical and Materials in Design in this field will be included in this Special Issue. We hope that this collection of papers will serve as an inspiration for those interested in “Fracture and Failure Prevent: Reliability, Proactivity, and Practice”.
Following the end of the 9th International Conference on Mechanical and Materials in Design, the Scientific Committee will select several papers, based on their scientific originality and on the relevance of their topics, for publication in this Special Issue. Theoretical and experimental contributions, original and review studies, and industrial and university research will be welcome. The selected authors will then be invited to submit extended versions of their conference paper. The main topics include, but are not limited to the following:
- Fracture and Failure Prevent;
- Reliability;
- Risk Analysis;
- Maintenance Management;
- Experimental Measure and Analysis.
Prof. Dr. Teresa Leonor Martins Morgado
Prof. Dr. Suzana Lampreia
Prof. Dr. Mario Pereira
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- instrumentation
- mechanical of fracture
- failure analysis
- damage studies
- structural durability
- application of condition-based maintenance
- application of reliability-centered maintenance
- optimization of equipment maintenance
- maintenance in a contingency context
- vibration measure and analysis
- risk analysis
- mechanical behavior of materials
- study of cases (naval, railway, aeronautic, automobile, pipelines, bridges, dams)