Fatigue of advanced materials: Part 1

This two-part review of fatigue of advanced materials assesses general microstructural and compositional design strategies and the question of whether microstructures have been optimized for fatigue resistance; evaluates mechanical properties with respect to cyclic constitutive behavior, crack initiation, and crack-propagation data; characterizes damage and failure, identifying phenomenological mechanisms and associated micromechanical mechanisms and associated micromechanical models; discusses (potential) life-prediction procedures; and forecasts trends in advanced materials and research into their fatigue properties.