International Journal of Fracture Mechanics and Damage Science

International Journal of Fracture Mechanics and Damage Science is a peer-reviewed online journal launched in 2023 that intends to provide its readers with swift and concrete information on the advancements in the field of pollution control. Editors recommend high-quality papers that are original and comprehensive and those that focus on the application of the work done. Journal also encourages review articles that cover all aspects of pollution control and that can have an immediate impact on the ongoing research.

The journal welcomes original research articles, theoretical and computational papers, systematic literature reviews, case studies, short communications, and invited editorials in the following thematic areas:

• Elastic Instability and Plastic Deformation: fracture toughness and fracture mechanics fundamentals, plastic zone analysis and stress-strain behavior, cleavage and ductile crack growth, elastic-plastic transition phenomena, deformation limits and failure criteria, and structural response to tension and shear loading.
• Fatigue and Cyclic Damage: low-cycle and high-cycle fatigue phenomena, fatigue crack initiation and propagation, creep-fatigue interaction and synergistic damage, mean stress effects and stress relaxation, ultrasonic and conventional fatigue testing, and life prediction models for cyclic loading.
• Creep Damage and Time-Dependent Fracture: creep deformation and rupture in high-temperature applications, creep-fatigue damage assessment methodologies, stress relaxation and strain-rate sensitivity, time-dependent damage accumulation, and material behavior under sustained and cyclic thermal loading.
• Brittle Fracture and Damage Mechanics: brittle-to-ductile transition phenomena, phase-field modeling of fracture, crack propagation analysis, damage rheology, friction and wear mechanics, and finite element and computational fracture analysis.
• Corrosion Damage and Environmentally-Assisted Cracking: metal and alloy corrosion, localized and stress corrosion cracking, pipeline and riser corrosion in oil and gas systems, galvanic and electrochemical damage, material selection and protection strategies, and long-term durability under corrosive environments.
• Composite Materials and Impact Damage: fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites, carbon fiber and carbon nanotube composites, hybrid composite systems, metal matrix composites, polymer matrix composites, impact behavior and dynamic mechanical analysis, and composite damage mechanics and characterization.
• Wear and Erosion Damage: wear-rate analysis and friction behavior, solid particle erosion of composites and metals, wear behavior of hybrid and fly-ash reinforced materials, design of wear-resistant materials, and tribological assessment methodologies.
• Crack Mechanics and Repair Technologies: small fatigue crack behavior, foreign object damage and dwell fatigue in aerospace materials, nickel-based superalloys and titanium alloys, crack initiation and growth analysis, replica and electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) techniques, and crack repair and mitigation strategies.
• Modeling and Numerical Simulation: computational fracture mechanics and finite element analysis, digital image correlation (DIC) and experimental validation, stress triaxiality and ductile damage modeling, damage state variables, multiphysics coupling (thermal, mechanical, chemical), and data-driven and machine learning approaches.