Fatigue

Since 1954, the Army Materials and Mechanics Research Center has run an annual conference at Sagamore, held with the Materials Science Group in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at Syracuse University. Each meeting gathers researchers from universities, industry, and government to study one subject in depth, chosen for its relevance to the Department of Defense, the Army, and the wider scientific community.

This volume collects the proceedings of the conference on fatigue as it is shaped by temperature and environment. It opens with an overview of how temperature and surroundings affect fatigue, then examines environmental effects at room temperature and, separately, at high temperatures, including the mechanisms involved. The final section turns to how these findings apply to materials selection and to engineering design.

Planning and publication depended on staff at the Army center and at Syracuse University, and the series continued with the ongoing support of the center's director.