Fatigue Damage Processes in Crystal Structure in Metals, Alloys and Composite Materials
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352). This special issue belongs to the section "Crystalline Metals and Alloys".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 October 2021) | Viewed by 1985
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fatigue; spectral methods; damage mechanics; variable amplitude loading; failure mechanics; lightweight materials; vibration effects; frequency domain methods
Interests: fatigue; failure mechanisms; lightweight structures; material interface structures; composite materials; multi-layer materials; polymer materials
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The durability and performance of materials is a major concern for the industry, and researchers across the globe. The performance information is obtained with the use of different testing or computational techniques which use predefined or generated loading spectra, sometimes obtained from real life components. We have witnessed a vast growth in the recent years when it comes to the interest in terms of crack propagation, as well as the micromechanism of fatigue within the crystal structure. This has been observed, especially for the very high cycle, as well as for the giga cycle regime. Many industrial methods which are implementing additional compound layers with different crystal structures on the surface of the material also affect the fatigue life. What is characteristic for these observation is the fact that the material is being subjected to changing operational forces that have an impact on the material crystal structure as well as the fatigue life. It can be noted that a thorough and complete understanding of the loading and the environment that they will encounter can improve the properties of the materials crystal structure. A prerequisite is the complete knowledge of the mechanisms by which the materials concerned will fail if their limits are exceeded. Nevertheless, the vast number of different parameters influencing this knowledge does not help us in finding a universal solution to all performance- and fatigue-related problems. The goal of this Special Issue is to present the recent state of the art, as well as to gather papers related to advanced material performance and its crystal structure and fatigue under variable loading, as well as the utilization of these fundamentals to modern materials with the description in the time or frequency domain.
Our goal is to attract quality papers related to recently developed experimental methodologies, theoretical and applied fracture and fatigue theories, advanced numerical models, and examples of real life applications related to advanced materials and composites that are affected with variable loading, especially due to the crystal structure. This means that we are interested in all papers related, in these terms, to damage and fracture mechanics under random or predefined loads described in the time or frequency domain. Of course, other topics related to service loads affecting the material or fracture and fatigue crystal structure are also welcome.
Dr. Michał Böhm
Prof. Lothar Kroll
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fatigue
- damage mechanics
- composite materials
- multi-layer materials
- crystal structure
- lightweight materials
