Engineering materials are routinely subjected to fatigue loading in a wide variety of applications in the acronautical, automotive, nuclear plant, petroleum and transportation industries. The extensive use of engineering materials over such a range of applications plus the cost involved in fatigure failure of materials and structures has resulted in an increasing awareness of the importance of damage and durability under cyclic loading conditions. Bringing together both fatigue researchers and engineers to review recent advances in the development of methods and approaches to predict fatigue performance of materials and structures, this book contains the proceedings of the First International Conference on Fatigue Damage of Materials: Experiment and Analysis. The contributors focus on the state-of-the-art in fatigue testing and analysis methods, including analytical and numerical criteria for crack growth rate, crack closure, fatigue damage and failure mechanisms, life prediction and design of engineering components subjected to fatigue loading and other related topics. The coverage is broad and includes a range of materials and structures as well as different viewpoints and approaches to fatigue analysis problems. Contemporary fatigue crack initiation and fatigue crack propagation methodologies are discussed while problems in the area of crack closure, loading spectra and multiaxial loading are addressed from both analytical and experimental aspects. The papers are divided under headings including: Fatigue Crack Initiation; Small Crack Growth and Threshold; Fatigue Crack Propagation; Fatigue Crack Closure; Contact and Fretting Fatigue; Thermo-Mechanical Fatigue and Creep; Fatigue andCorrosion; Multiaxial Fatigue; Mixed Mode Fatigue; Fatigue Damage Analysis; Fatigue Life Prediction; Design Against Fatigue Failure; Statistical Analysis of Fatigue; Notches and Defects; Fatigue Spectra Loading; High Cycle Fatigue; Low Cycle Fatigue; Cyclic Elastoplastic Behaviour; Microstructural Defects; Fatigue Testing and Crack Detection Methods; Computational Methods; Fatigue of Welded Joints Case Studies; and Case Studies.

A July 2003 conference brought together researchers and engineers to review recent advances in the development of methods for predicting fatigue performance of materials and structures. Papers from the conference focus on fatigue testing and analysis methods, analytical and numerical criteria for crack growth rate, crack closure, life prediction, design of engineering components subject to fatigue loading, and other related topics. Coverage is broad ad includes a range of materials and structures as well as different approaches to the fatigue analysis problem. Contemporary fatigue crack initiation and propagation methods are discussed, and problems in the areas of loading spectrum, thermo-mechanical fatigue and creep, and multiaxial loading are discused from both the analytical and experimental points of view. There is no subject index. The US office of WIT Press is Computational Mechanics.
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Focusing on state-of-the-art advances in the development of methods to predict fatigue performance of materials and structures, this book contains papers from the First International Conference on Fatigue Damage of Materials. The coverage is broad and includes a range of materials and structures plus different viewpoints and approaches to the fatigue analysis problem.