Corrosion Fatigue

Nearly all engineering structures are exposed to harmful environments and alternating mechanical loads during their service life. The combination of these two factors, corrosion and fatigue, accelerates damage and frequently leads to catastrophic failures much before the expected lifespan of the component. Understanding and predicting corrosion fatigue is considered the ultimate challenge in mechanics of materials, due to its complex multi-disciplinary and multi-scale nature. This site aims at collecting relevant publications, events and activities by a group of academics aiming at addressing this longstanding challenge. 

As described in About, we are a group of four academics from Imperial College London, Strathclyde, Cranfield and Bristol interested in collaborating to gain insight into the fundamentals of corrosion fatigue (or, more widely, environmentally-assisted fatigue), a structural integrity problem that is pervasive across the transport, energy, defence and construction sectors. From addressing durability issues in jet engines to extending the life of offshore wind turbine monopiles.