Advances in Thermo-Based Fatigue Research of Metals and Alloys
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Metal Failure Analysis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024 | Viewed by 94
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Fatigue is one of the most common causes of failure in a wide range of engineering materials and structures, especially in metals and alloys. Comprehending fatigue damage mechanisms and offering accurate methods for predicting fatigue life are paramount for the advancement of modern industry. In essence, fatigue is the evolutionary process of material microstructure towards degradation, which is an irreversible thermodynamic process accompanied by energy dissipation. Most of the dissipated energy is converted into heat, leading to temperature variations in the material experiencing fatigue over time and space. Analyzing such a self-heating phenomenon and establishing its correlation with the fatigue damage process represents a highly promising avenue of research, providing profound insights into fatigue mechanisms and expediting the assessment of fatigue resistance.
In this Special Issue, we invite contributions that delve into fatigue failure utilizing thermo-based methodologies, encompassing theory, experiments, and numerical simulations of metals and alloys. Additionally, we extend a warm welcome to articles employing thermodynamic approaches to analyze fatigue-related issues of metals and alloys, including lifespan predictions based on energy methods, among others.
Dr. Qiang Guo
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- Fatigue
- damage
- dissipation
- entropy
- temperature
- thermodynamics
- life prediction
