This book contains papers from the symposium held to honor Professor Hael Mughrabi, who devoted 40 years of research to the mechanical behavior of materials. In particular, Professor Mughrabi performed fundamental studies on the mechanisms of plastic deformation and fatigue based on dislocation mechanics. Readers of this book will find research development in deformation and fatigue including very high cycle fatigue of advanced engineering materials. Particular emphasis is given to mechanical properties of nanomaterials, and to the behavior and processes at the nanoscale in engineering materials. Specific subjects include deformation and fracture mechanisms; single crystals; mathematical modeling; cyclic, static and dynamic loading; and damage evolution.

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Preface. Hael Mughrabi Honorary Symposium: Plasticity, Failure and Fatigue in Structural Materials - from Macro to Nano. Poster Session. Damage of APS-TBCs in Thermomechanical Fatigue Tests ( Olena Trunova, Roland Herzog, Rolf W. Steinbrech, Tilmann Beck, and Lorenz Singheiser ). Fatigue Crack Propagation in E319 Cast Aluminum Alloy at Ultrasonic and Conventional Frequencies ( Xiaoxia Zhu, J. Wayne Jones, and John E Allison ). Microscopic Material Units Governing the Macroscopic Fatigue Behavior of Cold Drawn Eutectoid Steel ( Jesus Toribio, Beatriz Gonzalez, and Juan Carlos Matos ). Surface Stress-Induced Structural Reorientation and Pseudoelastic Effect in Pd Nanowires ( Jijun Lao, and Dorel Moldovan ). Dislocations: Work Hardening, Patterning, Size Effects I. Atomistic Simulations of Grain Boundary Dislocation Nucleation ( Mark Tschopp, and David L. McDowell ). On the Relevance of the Schmid's Factor to Analyse Cyclic Slip Activity and Crack Initiation in Polycrystals ( Patrick Villechaise, and Jose Mendez ). Detecting Fatigue Damage with Scanning SQUID Microscopy ( Tae-Kyu Lee, J.W. Morris Jr., Seugkyun Lee, and John Clarke ). High-Temperature Mechanical Properties: Creep, Fatigue and Thermomechanical Fatigue. Fatigue of Austenitic Stainless Steel under Isothermal and Thermomechanical Conditions ( Hans-Jurgen Christ, and Valerij Bauer ). Extending the Flow in High-Temperature Creep to Materials with Ultrafine Grain Sizes ( Megumi Kawasaki, Cheng Xu, and Terence Langdon ). Effect of Particle Strengthening on the Very High Cycle Fatigue Behavior of Two Nickel-Base Alloys ( Martina Zimmerman, Christian Stoecker, and Hans-Jurgen Christ ). Interfacial Structure and Mechanical Properties of Al2O3 Long Fiber Reinforced NiAl Composites ( Gunter Gottstein, Weiping Hu, Hao Chen, Yunlong Zhong, and Jia Song ). Dislocations: Work Hardening, Patterning, Size Effects II. Plastic Flow in Confined Volumes ( Jaafar El-Awady, and Nasr Ghoniem ). Plastic Shear Stress-Strain Behavior of Axially Oriented Microstructures ( Javier Gil-Sevillano, and Isabel Gutierrez ). Fracture of Dislocation Cores ( John Gilman ). Slip Circle Constructions for Plasticity of Polycrystals ( Lawrence Brown ). Local Shear Strain Amplitude and Half-Cycle Slip Activity of Persistent Slip Bands in Nickel Polycrystals ( Anja Weidner, Wolfgang Tirschler, Christian Blochwitz, Werner Skrotzki, Jiri Man, and Tomas Kruml ). Relationship between Dislocation Microstructure and Flow Stress during Cyclic Deformation in Al Single Crystals ( Toshiyuki Fujii, Shizuma Uju, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Toru Murayama, Chihiro Watanabe, Susumu Onaka, and Masaharu Kato ). Modeling of Large Strain Deformation and Failure Modes in Crystalline Aggregates ( Omid Rezvanian, and Mohammed Zikry ). An Analysis of Geometrically Necessary Dislocation Evolution and Plasticity Size Effects in Micro-Crystals ( P. Guruprasad, and A. Amine Benzerga ). Atomistic Simulations of Dislocation Nucleation in Copper Grain Boundaries under Uniaxial Tension and Compression ( Garritt Tucker, Mark A. Tschopp, and David L. McDowell ). Cyclic Deformation and Fatigue of Metals I. Cyclic Deformation Behavior and Fatigue Life of Ultrafine-Grained Metals ( Heinz Werner Hoppel, Johannes May, and Mathias Goken ). Biaxial Cyclic Stress-Strain Response of Ultrafine Grain Nickel ( Ntirelang Batane, David Morrison, and John Moosbrugger ). Mechanisms of Cyclic Plastic Deformation in Ultrafine-Grained Copper Produced by Severe Plastic Deformation ( Petr Lukas, Ludvik Kunz, Michal Svoboda, and Qingjuan Wang ). Advances in the Analysis of Short Fatigue Crack Growth ( Arthur Mcevily ). Fatigue Behavior of Homogeneous-Microstructure and Mixed-Microstructure Steels ( Donato Firrao, Paolo Matteis, Giovanni Marco Maria Mortarino, Pasquale Russo Spena, Maurizio Chiarbonello, Giuseppe Silva, Barbara Rivolta, Riccardo Gerosa, and Andrea Ghidini ). Mechanical Properties of Ultrafine-Grained (UFG) Metals I. Fracture Toughness and Fatigue Crack Propagation Measurements in Ultrafine Grained Iron and Nickel ( Anton Hohenwarter, and Reinhard Pippan ). Fretting Fatigue of Engineering Ceramics ( Thomas Schalk, Karl-Heinz Lang, and Detlef Lohe ). Fatigue Behavior of Railway Wheel Steels in the Very High Cycle Regime ( Vadim Wagner, Frank Walther, and Dietmar Eifler ). Inhomogeniety and Size of Microstructure - A New Paradigm in Understanding Deformation Mechanism of Nanocrystalline Metals ( Jagannathan Rajagopalan, Jong Han, and Taher Saif ). Damage Evolution and Lifetime Prediction of Thermal Barrier Coatings during Cyclic Oxidation ( Tilmann Beck, Roland Herzog, Olena Trunova, Rolf W. Steinbrech, and Lorenz Singheiser ). Mechanical Properties of Ultrafine-Grained (UFG) Metals II. Influence of Grain Boundary Character on Nanocrystalline Plasticity ( Mark Tschopp, Shreevant Tiwari, Sudipto Ghosh, and David L. McDowell ). Single Crystals Deformed by HPT ( Martin Hafok, and Reinhard Pippan ). Cyclic Deformation and Fatigue of Metals II. Mechanisms of Fatigue Failure of Polycrystalline Copper in the VHCF-Regime ( Stefanie Stanzl-Tschegg, Bernd Schonbauer, and Campbell Laird ). Long Life Fatigue-Critical Crack Length Concept ( Alan Plumtree ). Development of Multi-Type High Efficiency Fatigue Testing Machines in Rotating Bending and Axial Loading ( Tatsuo Sakai, Tatsuya Furusawa, Ryohei Takizawa, Noriyasu Oguma, Hiroshi Hojo, and Hajime Ikuno ). Microstructural Effects on Length Scales for Plastic Blunting of Stage II Fatigue Cracks in Metallic Materials ( Pedro Peralta, Rikki Teale, and Seon-Ho Choi ). Development of Damage in Cast Iron During Superimposed Low Frequency Thermal-Mechanical and Higher Frequency Mechanical Loading ( Thilo Hammers, Andreas Uihlein, Karl-Heinz Lang, and Detlef Lohe ). Author Index. Subject Index.