Engineering Materials and Structural Integrity
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Mechanics of Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 October 2024 | Viewed by 146
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Engineering materials play an important role in both industry and construction, with lots of applications in fields like vehicles, aerospace, transport, marine, defense, civil engineering, etc. Meanwhile, engineering materials, components, and structures are usually subjected to variable loading and environmental conditions, such as static/dynamic loading, cyclic fatigue, overloading, vibrations, collision, creep, stress corrosion, crack propagation, etc. Research into the reliability and structural integrity of engineering materials is now receiving significant scholarly attention.
This Special Issue aims to demonstrate the latest reliability evaluation of materials’ properties and mechanical components, as well as engineering materials’ fabrication and testing technologies. We welcome contributions regarding engineering materials, structures, and mechanical components.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
- Engineering materials and structures, such as metals, steels, alloys, and composites;
- Hybrid structures, like steel rails/bridges/axles, welding parts, connections, etc.;
- Structural integrity and lifetime reliability, including deformation, wear, damage, fatigue, fracture, failure, shock-absorbing/resistance, etc.;
- The fabrication, testing, and simulation technologies used in combination with engineering materials, including microstructural evolutions, stress–strain analysis, structural health monitoring (SHM), crack damage detection, non-destructive examination (NDE), the finite element method (FEM), etc.
Prof. Dr. Bing Yang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- engineering materials
- mechanical components
- structural integrity and lifetime reliability
- wear, cracks, fatigue, fracture, and failure
- mechanical behaviors
- stress–strain analysis
- microstructural evolutions
- fabrication and testing technologies
- numerical simulation
- structural health monitoring
