
Fatigue Damage in Metals
Numerical Methods-Based Approaches
- 1st Edition - April 1, 2026
- Editor: Anghel Cernescu
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 3 3 4 1 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 3 5 9 5 - 9
Fatigue Damage in Metals: Numerical Methods-Based Approaches provides readers with detailed and easy-to-implement simulation and modeling techniques for predicting, analyz… Read more

Fatigue Damage in Metals: Numerical Methods-Based Approaches provides readers with detailed and easy-to-implement simulation and modeling techniques for predicting, analyzing, and ultimately mitigating the effects of fatigue damage in metallic materials. The book is divided into three sections, the first of which covers various fatigue loading simulation techniques, the second looking at modeling methods for predicting and analyzing the cyclic behavior of metals, and the final section which discusses fatigue damage operators, criteria, and methods and also includes two chapters dedicated to case studies. It addresses variable amplitude loadings, yield surfaces-based models for cyclic plasticity simulation, fatigue crack imitation and propagation related to microstructure, probabilistic approaches, and more. New criteria and numerical techniques for analyzing the initiation and propagation of cracks are included, as are raw data, algorithms, and codes that can be put into immediate use.
- Outlines how to implement variable multiaxial loadings in numerical analyses, simulation of the cyclic behavior of materials, and new numerical techniques for predicting fatigue damage
- Covers simulation techniques, modeling methods for predicting and analyzing behavior, and fatigue damage operators and criteria
- Features multiple case studies
- Includes raw data, numerical algorithms, and codes that when combined with the simulation techniques outlined allows readers to put these methods into immediate use
Academic researchers and graduate students across a range of engineering and material science disciplines (mechanical, civil, aerospace, transportation, nuclear engineering), Professional engineers working in these same areas
1. Load Transfer from Macro to Meso Scale Through Submodeling Technique
2. Critical Plane-Based Criteria for Multiaxial Fatigue Damage Prediction
3. Algorithms for Variable Amplitude Cycle Counting Methods in Uniaxial and Multiaxial Fatigue Life Prediction
4. Microstructural Modeling Techniques for Finite Element Method Simulations; Microstructure-sensitive Modeling of Material Cyclic Deformation
5. Theory, Application, and Implementation of Modified AbelKarim-Ohno Model for Uniaxial Fatigue Loading
6. Theory, Application, and Implementation of Modified AbdelKarim-Ohno Model for Multiaxial Fatigue Loading
7. Extended Finite Element Method for Fatigue Crack Initiation
8. Combined Continuum Damage Mechanics with XFEM for High Cycle Fatigue Crack Growth
9. Multi-temporal Numerical Scheme for High Cycle Fatigue Damage Simulation
10. Numerical Modeling of Multiaxial Notch Fatigue Problems
11. Numerical Modeling of Fatigue Crack Growth Under Multiaxial Loading Conditions
12. Numerical Strategy for Fatigue Damage Prediction of Mechanical Components- Case 1
13. Numerical Strategy for Fatigue Damage Prediction of Mechanical Components- Case 2
14. Python, A Common Language in FEM Simulations
2. Critical Plane-Based Criteria for Multiaxial Fatigue Damage Prediction
3. Algorithms for Variable Amplitude Cycle Counting Methods in Uniaxial and Multiaxial Fatigue Life Prediction
4. Microstructural Modeling Techniques for Finite Element Method Simulations; Microstructure-sensitive Modeling of Material Cyclic Deformation
5. Theory, Application, and Implementation of Modified AbelKarim-Ohno Model for Uniaxial Fatigue Loading
6. Theory, Application, and Implementation of Modified AbdelKarim-Ohno Model for Multiaxial Fatigue Loading
7. Extended Finite Element Method for Fatigue Crack Initiation
8. Combined Continuum Damage Mechanics with XFEM for High Cycle Fatigue Crack Growth
9. Multi-temporal Numerical Scheme for High Cycle Fatigue Damage Simulation
10. Numerical Modeling of Multiaxial Notch Fatigue Problems
11. Numerical Modeling of Fatigue Crack Growth Under Multiaxial Loading Conditions
12. Numerical Strategy for Fatigue Damage Prediction of Mechanical Components- Case 1
13. Numerical Strategy for Fatigue Damage Prediction of Mechanical Components- Case 2
14. Python, A Common Language in FEM Simulations
- Edition: 1
- Published: April 1, 2026
- Language: English
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Anghel Cernescu
Dr. Cernescu’s research has focused for the last 13 years on the area of fatigue damage analysis. He has authored more than 50 peer-reviewer papers, 1 book chapter, and 1 monograph. He has also completed 4 postdoctoral research programs in 4 different countries, one of which was a Marie Curie fellowship (through Cardiff University) funded by the European Union through Horizon 2020.
Affiliations and expertise
Politehnica Timisoara University, School of Mechanical Engineering, Romania