This book contains full papers presented at the First Virtual Conference on Mechanical Fatigue (VCMF 2020), which was organised by the University of Porto (FEUP, Portugal), the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (Poland), University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (China), Siberian Federal University (Russia), and the ESIS/TC12 Technical Committee (European Structural Integrity Society-ESIS), between 9 and 11 of September 2020. This conference was intended to be a forum of discussion of new research concepts, equipment, technology, materials and structures and other scientific advances within the field of mechanical fatigue and fracture. The first edition of the VCMF 2020 event has reached more than 60 participants from more than 20 nationalities demonstrating the vitality of this new event.

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Contributions are accepted but not limited to the following topics:

• Cyclic plasticity and internal structure

• Ultra-low, low-, high- and giga-cycle fatigue

• Mechanisms of fatigue Damage

• Fatigue thresholds

• Short and long crack growth

• Fatigue life prediction

• Fatigue behaviour modelling and simulation

• Creep fatigue interactions

• Probabilistic fatigue and fracture

• Failure analysis and case studies

• Fatigue life extension

• Damage evaluation and fatigue design

• Variable amplitude loading

• Thermal fatigue

• Multiaxial fatigue

• Fatigue in biomaterials

• High temperature fatigue

• Fatigue-corrosion

• Environmental assisted fatigue

• Influence of manufacturing processes on fatigue behaviour

• Structural integrity assessments accounting for fatigue

• Applications and design codes (e.g. pressure vessels, metallic bridges, wind towers, offshore structures, etc.) - Physical models of layered structures

• Numerical analysis of the layered structures behaviour

• Experimental testing of composites and layered structures

• Optimisation issues and sensitivity analysis

• Reliability of polymer composites and hybrid metal-composite structures

• Applications of composites in engineering structures