Community to share and discuss the microstructural-based simulation fatigue tools

Thus far, there has been little emphasis within the fatigue community on open-source toolboxes for simulation and relative assessment of microstructures with regard to resistance to fatigue crack formation. The main challenges are tracking with standard testing protocols, reproducibility of the results, and model and code documentation. Clearly, reinventing common codes and methods routinely is inefficient and leads to difficulty in verification and validation. An alternative paradigm more commonly pursued in modern digital materials science is based on developing an open-source framework which can be used and/or modified by the fatigue community. One of the main goals of fatigue community of research is to investigate complex fatigue-related problems, with a focus on developing other features rather than reimplementing basic elements of the framework in limited-use, homegrown codes and subroutines. This community is initially open for anyone to add Fatigue datasets. As we learn, we will evolve the practices of the community and may add more active curation datasets. For suggestions and questions please contact the PRISMS-Fatigue developers at yaghoobi@umich.edu and krzysztof.stopka@gatech.edu.