The accurate determination of residual stresses has a crucial role in understanding the
complex interactions between microstructure, mechanical state, mode (s) of failure, and …

The impact of mechanical fatigue on load-bearing metallic components and structures is
highly significant, encompassing economy, environment and safety aspects. For nearly 200 …

Defects in additively manufactured materials are one of the leading sources of uncertainty in
mechanical fatigue. Fracture mechanics concepts are useful to evaluate their influence …

The family of additive manufacturing techniques has been attracting significant attention of
manufacturers and researchers, due to its unrivalled flexibility to fabricate and repair …

Residual stresses play a crucial role in determining material properties and behaviour, in
terms of structural integrity under monotonic and cyclic loading, and for functional …

Recent engineering design practice for materials and structures relies more and more on
damage-tolerant criteria. Such a design approach is attained mainly by employing materials …

With the aim to provide the structural design stage with data on the crack retardation/
acceleration effects caused by overload/underload and to explore the corresponding …

Residual stress is of great significance for the structural integrity of components and
assemblies. Its proper evaluation and integration into failure criteria may considerably …

The research of predicting fatigue life through defect features is somewhat limited. In order to
further study the influence of defect characteristics on fatigue life, a modification of Murakami …

Cellular materials are an attractive option to improve mechanical properties in lightweight
design. Given their complex geometry, cellular materials present small features at the meso …