Published in Affiliation with the European Structural Integrity Society



The International Journal of Fatigue aims to publish high quality, original papers that provide new insights into the mechanisms governing fatigue of materials and structures. The emphasis during the evaluation process will be on potential impact of the work, in terms of new scientific findings and substantial advancements to the field.

The following aspects of existing engineering materials and structures, as well as newly emerging materials and structures, are of particular interest:
Microstructural sensitive aspects of fatigue crack initiation and growth, including ties to manufacturing processing and defect structures;
New, empirically motivated descriptive models or rigorous validation and uncertainty quantification of existing models and codes of practice, in both cases these should be based on large datasets, considering multiple materials and loading configurations;
Understanding the influence of ?additive? manufacturing and processing route on fatigue performance, and embedding this understanding in more predictive schemes for mitigation and design against fatigue;
New experimental findings, which either challenge existing models or are aligned with an extension of their application limits and the associated data pool;
Fatigue analysis of materials and structures based on data science, including data mining, data fusion, and machine learning; and
Combined and coupled behaviors that affect thermo-chemical-mechanical degradation processes under cyclic loading conditions, including environmental degradation, are also included in the scope of the journal.


The International Journal of Fatigue encourages papers that identify new mechanisms that enhance the scientific understanding and associate predictions of fatigue, which may include novel fatigue testing and characterization methods, as well as advanced modeling. Papers that openly provide companion algorithms, models, tools, databases, range, and limits of validation are sought. Papers with insufficient novelty, providing test data without new scientific findings or performing routine case studies or finite element analyses, are discouraged.

Original high-quality research papers
short communications
technical notes
scholarly review articles
book reviews
conference reports 
calendar of forthcoming events

Editors
Professor M.N. James
Plymouth University, Plymouth, Devon, UK Email Professor M.N. James
Professor David McDowell
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Email Professor David McDowell
Professor G. Kang
Southwest Jiaotong University, Sichuan, China Email Professor G. Kang
Editorial Advisory Board
Y. Akiniwa
Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan
M. Bache
University of Wales, Swansea, UK
A. Carpinteri
Università degli Studi di Parma, Parma, Italy
D.L. Chen
Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
S.R. Daniewicz
Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi, USA
A. Fatemi
University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, USA
G. Hattingh
Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
T. Hoshide
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Yanyao Jiang
University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, USA
J.W. Jones
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
J.M. Larsen
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, AFB, Dayton, Ohio, USA
C.S. Lee
Pohang University of Science and Technology, Nam-Gu, Pohang-si, The Republic of Korea
M.P. Miller
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
Y. Murakami
Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
R. Neu
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
D. Nowell
University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
T. Palin-Luc
Arts et Métiers ParisTech, Talence Cedex, France
J. Pan
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
H.L.J. Pang
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
I.V. Papadopoulos
European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy
R. Pippan
Austrian Acad Sci & Inst Metal, Leoben, Austria
S. Pommier
Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS) de Cachan, Cachan, France
L. RÉMY
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Evry Cedex, France
A. Reynolds
University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
R.O. Ritchie
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
H. Sehitoglu
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
H. Shi
Tsinghua University, China
L. Susmel
University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
D. Taylor
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
R.J.H. Wanhill
National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR), Amsterdam, Netherlands
Z.F. Zhang
Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Sciences, Shenyang, China
Y. X. Zhao
Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China
J. Dominguez
Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
F. Berto
Norwegian University of Science & Technology NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
K.A. Macdonald
Statoil ASA, Stavanger, Norway
A.D. Rollett
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
H. Mayer, PhD
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, Austria
M. Vormwald
Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
Past Editor
K. Reifsnider
University of South Carolina, South Carolina, District of Columbia, USA