Advances in Fatigue, Fracture and Structural Integrity

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Introduction  

​​Fatigue and fracture are among the most critical mechanisms governing the degradation and failure of engineering materials and structures. Components operating under cyclic loading, variable stress states, and demanding service environments are particularly susceptible to progressive damage accumulation. It can ultimately lead to crack initiation, propagation, and structural failure. Understanding and accurately predicting these processes are therefore essential for ensuring structural integrity, reliability, and safe operation of engineering systems.

Advances in fatigue, fracture and damage mechanics play a key role in improving engineering design and extending the service life of critical components. Reliable structural integrity assessment enables engineers to optimise materials, geometries, and operating conditions while reducing the risk of unexpected failures. In addition to improving safety, these approaches contribute significantly to cost-effective design, maintenance planning, and life-cycle management of engineering structures.

In many engineering applications, environmental conditions can further accelerate material degradation and significantly influence fatigue and fracture behaviour. Phenomena such as hydrogen-assisted cracking, corrosion fatigue and environmentally assisted cracking can alter crack initiation and propagation processes, posing additional challenges for structural integrity assessment and life prediction.

This Special Issue on Advances in Fatigue, Fracture and Structural Integrity aims to present recent developments in the understanding, characterization, and prediction of fatigue and fracture behaviour in engineering materials and components. Contributions addressing fatigue crack growth under complex loading, structural integrity of welded and pressure components, advanced experimental techniques for crack detection and damage quantification, numerical and reduced-order modelling of structural failure, and monitoring and life assessment of engineering systems are within the scope of this issue.

By bringing together contributions from researchers in the field, this Special Issue seeks to advance methodologies for fatigue and fracture assessment, damage mechanics modelling, crack growth prediction, and structural integrity evaluation of engineering materials and structures. ​

List of topic areas

​​​1.    Fatigue crack growth and fracture mechanics under complex loading 
2.    Structural integrity assessment of welded and pressure components 
3.    Advanced experimental techniques for crack detection and damage quantification 
4.    Numerical and reduced-order modelling of structural failure 
5.    Monitoring, durability and life assessment of engineering systems​​

Submissions Information

Submissions are made using ScholarOne Manuscripts. Registration and access are available at: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijsi​ 
Author guidelines must be strictly followed. Please see: ​ https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/ijsi#jlp_author_guidelines

Authors should select (from the drop-down menu) the special issue title at the appropriate step in the submission process, i.e. in response to “Please select the issue you are submitting to”.  

Submitted articles must not have been previously published, nor should they be under consideration for publication anywhere else, while under review for this journal.

Key deadlines

Opening date for manuscripts submissions: ​15/03/2026​ 
Closing date for manuscripts submission: ​15/07/2026