Typical subjects discussed in International Journal of Fatigue address:
Novel fatigue testing and characterization methods (new kinds of fatigue tests, critical evaluation of existing methods, in situ measurement of fatigue degradation, non-contact field measurements)
Multiaxial fatigue and complex loading effects of materials and structures, exploring state-of-the-art concepts in degradation under cyclic loading
Fatigue in the very high cycle regime, including failure mode transitions from surface to subsurface, effects of surface treatment, processing, and loading conditions
Modeling (including degradation processes and related driving forces, multiscale/multi-resolution methods, computational hierarchical and concurrent methods for coupled component and material responses, novel methods for notch root analysis, fracture mechanics, damage mechanics, crack growth kinetics, life prediction and durability, and prediction of stochastic fatigue behavior reflecting microstructure and service conditions)
Models for early stages of fatigue crack formation and growth that explicitly consider microstructure and relevant materials science aspects
Understanding the influence or manufacturing and processing route on fatigue degradation, and embedding this understanding in more predictive schemes for mitigation and design against fatigue
Prognosis and damage state awareness (including sensors, monitoring, methodology, interactive control, accelerated methods, data interpretation)
Applications of technologies associated with fatigue and their implications for structural integrity and reliability. This includes issues related to design, operation and maintenance, i.e., life cycle engineering
Smart materials and structures that can sense and mitigate fatigue degradation
Fatigue of devices and structures at small scales, including effects of process route and surfaces/interfaces


Combined and coupled behaviours that affect thermo-chemical-mechanical degradation processes under cyclic loading conditions are also included in the scope of the journal.

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