TC3: Fatigue of Engineering Materials and Structures

TC3 UpDates

TC3 Report 2003



Co-Chairs

Prof Andrea Carpinteri

Dept Civil Engineering, University of Parma,
Parco Area delle Scienze 181/A,
43100 Parma, Italy
Contact E-mails: andrea.carpinteri@unipr.it

Co-Chairs

Prof L P Pook

21 Woodside Road,
Sevenoaks, Kent, TN13 3HF
Contact E-mails: les.pook@tesco.net

Secretary

Andrea Spagnoli

Contact E-mails: spagnoli@unipr.it


TC3 Subcommittee on
Multiaxial Fatigue

Prof Ewald Macha

Technical University of Opole,
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering,
Department of Mechanics and Machine Design,
ul. Mikolajczyka 5,
45-271 Opole, Poland
Contact E-mails: emac@po.opole.pl

TC3 Subcommittee on
HighTemperature Fatigue

Prof J Petit

Contact E-mails: petit@soleil.ensma.fr




TC3 UPDATE 2006

ACTIVITIES DURING 2005
  1. Professor Andrea Carpinteri (Parma) and Professor Les P. Pook (London) : Guest Editors of a Special Issue of the International Journal “Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures (FFEMS)”, under the title “Fatigue Crack Paths”, with 25 papers selected from those presented at the Conference held in Parma in September 2003. Such a Special Issue of FFEMS has been published as Issue Nos 1-2, Volume 28, 1-265, 2005.

  2. Professor Andrea Carpinteri (Parma) and Professor Les P. Pook (London) : Chairmen of a Mini-Symposium on "Numerical Approaches to Fatigue" at ICF 11 (11th International Conference on Fracture, Turin, Italy, March 20th to 25th, 2005).

  3. Professor Andrea Carpinteri (Parma), Professor Les P. Pook (London), Professor Cetin Morris Sonsino (Darmstadt) and Professor H. Zenner (Clausthal-Zellerfeld) : Guest Editors of a Special Issue of the “International Journal of Fatigue (IJF)” (ESIS Special Technical Publication), under the title “Multiaxial Fatigue and Fracture”, with 26 papers selected from those presented at the 7th Conference ICBMFF, held in Berlin in June 2004. Such a Special Issue of IJF is being published as Issue Nos 5-6, Volume 28, 2006.
PRESENT AND FUTURE ACTIVITIES
  1. Professor Andrea Carpinteri (Parma) and Professor Les P. Pook (London): Chairmen of an ESIS International Conference on “Crack Paths” (http://www.CP2006.unipr.it), to be held in Parma, Italy, Thursday 14th to Saturday 16th September, 2006.

  2. Dr Upul Fernando (Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield): Chairman of the Eighth International Conference on Multiaxial Fatigue and Fracture (ICMFF 8), to be held in Sheffield in June 2007.

  3. Professor Andrea Carpinteri (Parma) and Professor Les P. Pook (London): Chairmen of the Nineth International Conference on Multiaxial Fatigue and Fracture (ICMFF 9), to be held in Parma in June 2010.



TC3 UPDATE 2005

The present TC3 Sub-Committees are listed below:

TC3.1 "Multiaxial Fatigue", chaired by Professor Ewald Macha (E-mail: emac@po.opole.pl). The main objective of TC3.1 is the development of existing algorithms and the formulation of new procedures in order to estimate fatigue life of machine components and civil engineering structures subjected to multiaxial service loading, based on mechanisms of crack initiation and propagation, identified during tests. A Research Project entitled "Energy-based approach to multiaxial fatigue using the critical plane" is in progress (see 'TC3 Update').

TC3.2 "High Temperature Fatigue", initially chaired by Professor Jean Petit of Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et d'Aérotechnique in Futuroscope, France. Due to the commitments of Professor Petit, a new Chairman will be appointed as soon as possible.

Professor Andrea Carpinteri and Professor Les P. Pook are going to organise a Mini-Symposium on "Numerical Approaches to Fatigue" at ICF 11 (11th International Conference on Fracture, Turin, Italy, March 20th to 25th, 2005). Experts interested in participating in such a Mini-Symposium are invited to contact 'andrea.carpinteri@unipr.it' by E-mail as soon as possible.

Professor Andrea Carpinteri and Professor Les P. Pook are planning to organise an ESIS international conference on "Crack Paths" to be held in 2006 (see the ESIS website http://www.esisweb.org ; information available in a close future).


January, 2004
Andrea Carpinteri, Les Pook, Andrea Spagnoli


  1. Main Objectives of ESIS 2003

    The main objective of this Committee has been to organize a well structured group of Sub-Committees in order to analyze some major issues not yet completely understood in the field of fatigue. Professor Andrea Carpinteri and Professor Les P Pook (TC3 Co-Chairmen) and Dr Andrea Spagnoli (TC3 Secretary) have collected suggestions on which specific fatigue aspects should have been examined by individual TC3 Sub-Committees, and how to build up the strength of TC3. Active subcommittees are:

    TC3.1 - "Multiaxial Fatigue", chaired by Professor Ewald Macha (Email:emac@po.opole.pl). The main objective of TC3.1 is the development of existing algorithms and the formulation of new procedures in order to estimate fatigue life of machine components and civil engineering structures subjected to multiaxial service loading, based on mechanisms of crack initiation and propagation, identified during tests. A Research Project entitled "Energy-based approach to multiaxial fatigue using the critical plane" is in progress.

    TC3.2 - "High Temperature Fatigue", initially chaired by Professor Jean Petit of Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et d'Aérotechnique in Futuroscope, France. Due to the commitments of Professor Petit, a new Chairman will be appointed as soon as possible.

    TC3 Officers have advertised and co-ordinated fatigue activities so that they have been arranged out-of-phase. Therefore let the TC3 Officers know also about activities being planned in the future (especially as far as fatigue conferences are concerned) so that TC3 Officers can be more efficient in the circulation of information. Furthermore, the TC3 Committee has requested up-dated information for the TC3 database to ensure that all TC3 members received information at the correct address, well in advance of any meetings. Besides the postal address, FAX number and ESIS membership number, we also require the e-mail address of all ESIS members interested in TC3.


  2. ESIS TC3 Activities during the present year (2003)

    2.1 Professor Les P. Pook (London) has been the Guest Editor of a Special Issue of the international Journal "Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures" (FFEMS), under the title "Biaxial/Multiaxial Fatigue", Vol. 26, No. 6, 2003. Associate Guest Editors have been Professor K. Dang Van (École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France) and Professor Cetin Morris Sonsino (Fraunhofer- Institute für Betriebsfestigkeit, LBF, Darmstadt, Germany).

    2.2 Professor Andrea Carpinteri (Parma), Professor Manuel de Freitas (Lisbon) and Dr Andrea Spagnoli (Parma) are the Editors of an ESIS Special Technical Publication (ESIS STP Volume 31) entitled "Biaxial/Multiaxial Fatigue and Fracture", published by Elsevier Science Ltd. (ISBN 0-08-044129-7, http://www.elsevier.nl/) in 2003.

    2.3 Professor Alfredo Navarro (Seville), Professor Eduardo de los Rios (Sheffield), Professor Andrea Carpinteri (Parma) and Professor Pook (London) have been the Chairmen of an ESIS international conference on "Cumulative Fatigue Damage" (CFD 2003) held in Seville, Spain, 26th to 30th May, 2003.

    2.4 Professor Andrea Carpinteri (Parma) and Professor Les P. Pook (London) have been the Chairmen of an ESIS international conference on "Fatigue Crack Paths" (FCP 2003) held in Parma, Italy, 18th to 20th September, 2003. Such a conference has drawn together the different strategies that designers and failure analysts face in relation to 3- dimensional stress-strain fields, projected fracture paths, critical plane approaches, and the fundamentals of Stage I (shear) and Stage II (tensile type) cracks. Physicists, metallurgists and fracture mechanics experts have all been required to solve some long-term problems presenting high quality papers.

    2.5 Professor Andrea Carpinteri (Parma) and Professor Les P. Pook (London) are the Guest Editors of a Special Issue of the international Journal "Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures" (FFEMS), under the title "Fatigue Crack Paths" (in progress).


  3. ESIS TC3 Present and planned future activities

    3.1 Professor Cetin Morris Sonsino (Darmstadt) is the Chairman of the Seventh International "Biaxial/Multiaxial Fatigue and Fracture" conference to be held in Berlin, 28th to 30th June, 2004. Co-Chairmen are Professor P.D. Portella (Berlin) and Professor H. Zenner (Clausthal- Zellerfeld). The aim of this conference is not only to display the substantial international progress achieved in understanding of multiaxial fatigue and fracture behavior during the past years, but also to illustrate how research results apply to industrial practice and to close the gap between design and manufacturing engineers and scientists. Associated failure assessment procedures are now becoming more complex, and it is essential to have a forum that includes experimentalists, theoreticians, industrial practitioners and academic experts.

    3.2 Professor Andrea Carpinteri (Parma) and Professor Les P. Pook (London) are going to organize a Mini - Symposium on " Numerical Approaches to Fatigue " at ICF 11 (11th International Conference on Fracture, Turin, Italy, March 20th to 25th, 2005). Experts interested in participating in such a Mini - Symposium are invited to contact andrea.carpinteri@unipr.it by email.

    3.3 Professor Andrea Carpinteri (Parma) and Professor Les P. Pook (London) are planning to organize an ESIS international conference on "Crack Paths" to be held in 2006 (see the ESIS website http://www.esisweb.org ; information available in a close future).


  4. TC3.1 Sub Committee "Multiaxial fatigue"

    Project entitled: ENERGY-BASED APPROACH TO MULTIAXIAL FATIGUE USING THE CRITICAL PLANE Professor Ewald Macha, Technical University of Opole (e-mail: emac@po.opole.pl )

    4.1 Main Objectives The main objectives are development of the existing and formulation of new algorithms for estimation of fatigue life of machine components and civil engineering structures subjected to multiaxial service loading, based on mechanisms of crack initiation and propagation, identified during tests. (More details)

    4.2 Work Plan - Meeting in Berlin during the 7th International Conference on Biaxial/Multiaxial Fatigue and Fracture 2004 - Meeting in Sweden during ECF15 - 11-13 August 2004.

    4.3 Organization of the Work ESIS members, especially participants of the 6th International Conference on Biaxial/ Multiaxial Fatigue and Fracture held in Lisbon (Portugal) in June 2001, as well as other researchers interested in participation in the program are invited to contact the TC3.1 Chairman, Professor Ewald Macha, by e-mail (emac@po.opole.pl) as soon as possible. They are asked to send their remarks, proposals and suggestions concerning the project. The TC3.1 Chairman will organize meetings during the above conferences, including special sessions on multiaxial fatigue and permanent communication between the cooperating partners.

    4.4 Deliverables: scientific publications; Reports on the progress of the TC3.1 program during ECF16 and from time to time in the ESIS Newsletter.