1st Edition

Fundamentals of Fatigue Fracture Collective Works in the Memory of Prof. Mohan Ranganathan

Edited By Yves Nadot Copyright 2026
420 Pages 53 Color & 110 B/W Illustrations
by Jenny Stanford Publishing

420 Pages 53 Color & 110 B/W Illustrations
by Jenny Stanford Publishing

This book is written in memory of the late Prof. Mohan Narayanaswami Ranganathan, University of Tours, France, whose contributions to the fields of materials science, engineering, and fatigue have inspired generations of researchers. He had an unrelenting intellectual curiosity and a unique way of looking at things and drawing in knowledge from different areas to provide an entirely different... Read more

1. A Stress-Life (S-N) Constitutive Equation for Universal Characterization of S-N Fatigue Behavior of Materials

K. S. Ravi Chandran

 

2. Unintended Failure: Diagnosing Why It Occurs and the Implications for Design

Peter C. McKeighan

 

3. Application of Two-Parametric Approach to Fatigue Damage

M. Nani Babu and K. Sadananda

 

4. Crack-Tip Shielding and Its Role in Fatigue Crack Growth

M. Neil James

 

5. Multiaxial Fatigue Strength Criteria for Metals in High Cycle Fatigue Regime

Franck Morel, Thierry Palin-Luc, and Nicolas Saintier

 

6. Multiaxial High Cycle Fatigue and Microstructure Modeling

Nicolas Saintier, Franck Morel, and Thierry Palin-Luc

 

7. Environmentally-Assisted Fatigue Crack Growth in a Moist Atmosphere

Gilbert Hénaff

 

8. Fatigue from Defects: Influence of Size, Type, Position, Morphology, and Loading

Yves Nadot

 

9. Adopting Principles from Physics to Fatigue Crack Growth

René Alderliesten

 

10. Very High Cycle Fatigue and Application to Additive Manufacturing

Meysam Haghshenas

 

11. Build Orientation and Post-Processing Influence on Fatigue

Sasidharan Periane Natarajan

Biography

Yves Nadot is a full professor at Institut P’ ISAE-ENSMA Poitiers, France, since 2010. He earned his PhD on “High cycle fatigue life of nodular casting iron” in 1997 from the University of Poitiers and was supervised by Prof. M. Ranganathan and Prof. J. Mendez during his research. He started to work in the field of “fatigue from defect,” beginning from Prof. J. Petit’s laboratory. He leads the research group “Damage and Physics/Mechanics of Materials” and is an active contributor to the research on the defect-induced fatigue process. He has also worked on industrial collaboration projects with Safran, Zodiac Aerospace, Renault, Airbus, Knorr-Bremse, SNCF, Rolls-Royce, and MTU.