The fatigue life of a component can be expressed as the sum of two segments of life:(a) the
number of loading cycles required to initiate a crack and (b) the number of cycles it takes that …

The study of fatigue in metals, and fatigue initiation specifically, lends itself to analysis via an
emerging set of characterization and modeling tools that describe polycrystals on the meso …

Reengineering of the aircraft structural life prediction process to fully exploit advances in
very high performance digital computing is proposed. The proposed process utilizes an …

Recent trends towards simulation of the cyclic slip behavior of polycrystalline and polyphase
microstructures of advanced engineering alloys subjected to cyclic loading are facilitating …

A computational framework is presented to include the effects of grain size and morphology
in the crystal plasticity finite element (CPFE) method for simulations of polycrystals. The …

Assessing the size of representative volume elements (RVEs) for fatigue-related
applications is challenging. A RVE relevant to random microstructure requires a volume of …

This paper reports the results of a study of the initial stages of fatigue crack formation in the
commercial aluminum alloy 7075-T651. Direct observations were made of the evolution of …

The overarching aim of this paper is to explore the use of machine learning (ML) to predict
the microstructure-sensitive evolution of a three-dimensional (3D) crack surface in a …

Inclusions (constituent particles) in Al 7075 alloys can be classified as Fe-bearing and Si-
bearing inclusions. They play important roles in the deformation behavior, particular under …

An analytical framework is presented to predict the effects of sample size on the maximum
value distribution (MVD) of the driving forces for fatigue crack formation in metals and alloys …