Special issue on competing failure modes and variability in fatigue

✍ Scribed by K.S. Ravi Chandran; G.T. Cashman; J.M. Larsen; T. Sakai

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 92 KB
• Volume: 32
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0142-1123
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2009.08.006

✦ Synopsis

The papers address the many aspects of fatigue variability due to microstructural and mechanical factors, advocate some statistical methods of analysis, and demonstrate how the general notions of S-N curve may need to be changed in view of the fatigue failures starting from surface and interior locations, sometimes simultaneously, in materials. Further, the papers also demonstrate how microstructural and mechanical variables can be modeled by capturing the key variables involved.

The editors thank the authors for their presentations at the symposium as well as for the high quality of the manuscripts submitted for the special issue. The editors also appreciate the reviewers for their timely responses and the comments and suggestions on the manuscripts. Finally, Dr. D. McDowell, North American Editor and the editorial staff of Elsevier are thanked for their efforts in ensuring smooth progress of the manuscript management and publication processes.