Structural Integrity and Fatigue Failure Analysis: Experimental, Theoretical and Numerical Approaches (Hardcover)

Contributions are accepted but not limited to the following topics:

- Cyclic plasticity and internal structure

- Ultra-low, low-, high- and giga-cycle fatigue

- Mechanisms of fatigue Damage

- Fatigue thresholds

- Short and long crack growth

- Fatigue life prediction

- Fatigue behaviour modelling and simulation

- Creep fatigue interactions

- Probabilistic fatigue and fracture

- Failure analysis and case studies

- Fatigue life extension

- Damage evaluation and fatigue design

- Variable amplitude loading

- Thermal fatigue

- Multiaxial fatigue

- Fatigue in biomaterials

- High temperature fatigue

- Fatigue-corrosion

- Environmental assisted fatigue

- Influence of manufacturing processes on fatigue behaviour

- Structural integrity assessments accounting for fatigue

- Applications and design codes (e.g. pressure vessels, metallic bridges, wind towers, offshore structures, etc.)
- Physical models of layered structures

- Numerical analysis of the layered structures behaviour

- Experimental testing of composites and layered structures

- Optimisation issues and sensitivity analysis

- Reliability of polymer composites and hybrid metal-composite structures

- Applications of composites in engineering structures