Special issue on ‘Multiaxial Fatigue 2013’: Selected papers from the 10th International Conference on Multiaxial Fatigue and Fracture (ICMFF10), held in Kyoto, Japan, on 3–6 June 2013

Abstract

This Special Issue of the International Journal of Fatigue contains selected papers presented at the International Conference on Multiaxial Fatigue and Fracture held in Kyoto, Japan, on 3–6 June 2013. The selected papers for this special issue cover a wide range of topics discussed at the Kyoto conference. These topics include the effects of the following factors on the multiaxial fatigue behaviour of materials and structures: geometrical stress concentrations, defects, weldments, high-cycle and low-cycle fatigue loads, material microstructure, anisotropy, residual stresses, mean stresses, overloads, rolling contact, ratcheting, temperature, creep. The materials examined include metallic alloys and castings and composites. Practical considerations include methods of testing to determine service life under multiaxial fatigue loads. The selected papers have been revised and significantly extended by the authors and subjected to the normal IJF review process. Further selected papers from the conference are published in a Special Issue of Engineering Fracture Mechanics on ‘Multiaxial Fracture 2013'.