As engineering modelling and simulation tools become ever more powerful and sophisticated there still remains the challenge of correlating the virtual world with both idealised laboratory testing and the wide, and potentially unexpected, range of service conditions experienced by machines and structures. These challenges are compounded by the advent of new materials, new ways of manufacturing components, new applications and new test, measurement and characterisation techniques.

Topics

We are interested in high quality papers in all aspects of the fatigue and durability of engineering materials, machines and structures.
In particular:

• Innovations in experimental techniques for fatigue characterisation
• Developments in modelling fatigue including:
  • multi-scale and multi-physics
  • neural networks and machine learning
  • stochastic methods
• Durability of advanced materials
• Integrity of recycled and reprocessed materials
• Joining technologies: bolts, welds, adhesives, joining dissimilar materials, correlation of testing and in-service durability
• Surface engineering and durability
• Innovations in digital imaging
• Fatigue in adverse environments, such as high temperatures, corrosion and/or embrittling species