Meet the editors

Dr. Zakaria Abdallah is the principal and a lead academic of fracture and fatigue in the Steel and Metals Institute, Swansea University, Wales. His role there involves in-house manufacturing (i.e., casting) of steel as well as testing its mechanical properties and fracture characteristics under various conditions. Dr. Abdallah has also worked at the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre, Swansea University, where he was involved in the

research and development of high-temperature alloys utilised in aero-engines. The power gearbox in the Rolls-Royce Ultrafan aero-engine is one of the major projects on which Dr. Abdallah has been working for several years. He has worked as a consultant for various industries in the United Kingdom, such as Airbus, TIMET, ETD, Rolls-Royce, within Swansea Materials Research and Testing (SMaRT) Ltd. Dr. Abdallah leads or has led, several modules at Swansea University. He also supervises several students working on various projects related to steel and metal alloys as well as the fatigue performance and life predictions of metallic structures. Dr. Abdallah has numerous journal publications, books, and international conferences to his credit. His research interests include steel and metals, composite materials, materials characterisation, creep and fatigue, life predictions of materials, thermo-mechanical testing, heat treatment, powder metallurgy, and diffusion bonding and brazing.

Dr. Aldoumani is the director of Innovative Technologies & Engineering Consultancy House (ITECH) Ltd., a registered business in the United Kingdom with headquarters in London. She provides services in metallic and composite structures in the field of uncertainty quantification and mechanical properties. In her business, Dr. Aldoumani is enhancing her consultancy expertise by providing services to customers worldwide. This

includes finite element (FE) modelling and engineering solutions for newly designed products with the aid of uncertainty quantification and problem-solving. Dr. Aldoumani was a fellow researcher at Swansea University, Wales, with a structural engineering background. She is an expert in composite materials for structural applications, finite element (FE) modelling, and ANSYS, PDL, ACP, and MATLAB coding. Dr. Aldoumani is also a pioneer in uncertainty quantification in composite structures and adhesively bonded materials, particularly those employed in the aerospace industry. During her career, Dr. Aldoumani developed a novel approach that automates ANSYS through an in-house MATLAB code that is capable of running thousands of trials to obtain probabilistic Gaussian distributions. Her work is now published in internationally recognised and peer-reviewed journals.

Contents

Advances in Fatigue Prediction Techniques

*by Evren Meltem Toygar and Ahmet Gulakman*

Failure Modes in Fiber Reinforced Composites and Fracture

A Probabilistic Approach in Fuselage Damage Analysis *via*

*by Gilberto Gomes, Thiago Oliveira and Francisco Evangelista Jr*

Combination of Numerical, Experimental and Digital Image Correlation for Mechanical Characterization of Al2O3/β-TCP

XEFGM Fracture Analysis of Functionally Graded Materials

Determining the Characteristics of Acoustic Emission in the Fatigue Crack Growth of Aluminum Alloy 2025 for Online

*by Barkallah Rachida, Rym Taktak, Noamen Guermazi,* 

under Mixed Mode and Asymmetric Loading *by Nathera A. Saleh and Haider Khazal*

*by Sachin Kumar and Vidit Gaur*

Toughness Testing of FRP

Boundary Element Method

Based on CDM Criterion

Structural Monitoring *by Javad Sharifi Ghaderi*

*Fahmi Zaïri and Jamel Bouaziz*

**Preface XI**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 17**

**Chapter 3 35**

**Chapter 4 55**

**Chapter 5 75**

**Chapter 6 93**
