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D-Index
40
Citations
5967
World Ranking
2035
National Ranking
756

Overview

K. Sadananda is affiliated with the United States Naval Research Laboratory in the United States. Their research spans engineering and materials science, with a focus on mechanics of materials, mechanical engineering, metals and alloys, civil and structural engineering, and materials chemistry.

The scientist's work largely centers on fatigue and fracture mechanics, hydrogen embrittlement and corrosion behaviors in metals, concrete corrosion and durability, non-destructive testing techniques, probabilistic and robust engineering design, corrosion behavior and inhibition, and high temperature alloys and creep.

Frequent publication venues for K. Sadananda include:

  • International Journal of Fatigue
  • Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A
  • Corrosion Reviews
  • Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & Structures
  • Crystals

K. Sadananda has collaborated multiple times with several coauthors, including:

  • A.K. Vasudévan
  • Nagaraja Iyyer
  • M. Nani Babu
  • Daniel Kujawski
  • Nam Phan

Selected recent publications by K. Sadananda are as follows:

  • Sacrificial Zn-Ni coatings by electroplating and hydrogen embrittlement of high-strength steels, 2021, Corrosion Reviews
  • Analysis of pit to crack transition under corrosion fatigue & the safe-life approach using the modified Kitagawa-Takahashi diagram, 2020, International Journal of Fatigue
  • Analysis of the Crack Initiation and Growth in Crystalline Materials Using Discrete Dislocations and the Modified Kitagawa-Takahashi Diagram, 2020, Crystals
  • Failure diagrams for subcritical crack growth, 2022, International Journal of Fatigue

The scientist's research contributions are distributed across significant topics related to material fatigue and corrosion, with publications addressing hydrogen embrittlement and corrosion fatigue mechanisms and their impact on structural materials.

Best Publications

  • A REVIEW OF CRACK CLOSURE, FATIGUE CRACK THRESHOLD AND RELATED PHENOMENA

    A.K. Vasudeven;K. Sadananda;N. Louat

  • Residual stress effects on near-threshold fatigue crack growth in friction stir welds in aerospace alloys

    R John;K.V Jata;K Sadananda

  • Analysis of overload effects and related phenomena

    K Sadananda;A.K Vasudevan;R.L Holtz;E.U Lee

  • Critical parameters for fatigue damage

    A.K Vasudevan;K Sadananda;G Glinka

  • Crack tip driving forces and crack growth representation under fatigue

    K Sadananda;A.K Vasudevan

  • Fatigue crack growth mechanisms in steels

    K. Sadananda;A.K. Vasudevan

  • A theoretical evaluation of crack closure

    N. Louat;K. Sadananda;M. Duesbery;A. K. Vasudevan

  • Fatigue crack growth behavior of titanium alloys

    K. Sadananda;A.K. Vasudevan

  • Short crack growth and internal stresses

    K Sadananda;A.K Vasudevan

  • Fatigue thresholds of Ni-Ti alloy near the shape memory transition temperature

    R.L. Holtz;K. Sadananda;M.A. Imam

  • Creep and fatigue properties of high temperature silicides and their composites

    K. Sadananda;C.R. Feng;R. Mitra;S.C. Deevi

  • Creep of molybdenum disilicide composites

    K. Sadananda;C.R. Feng;H. Jones;J. Petrovic

  • Classification of fatigue crack growth behavior

    A. K. Vasudévan;K. Sadananda

  • Dislocation network formation and coherency loss around gamma- prime precipitates in a nickel- base superalloy

    A. K. Singh;N. Louat;K. Sadananda

  • Two critical stress intensities for threshold fatigue crack propagation

    A.K. Vasudévan;K. Sadananda;N. Louat

  • Strain profiling of fatigue crack overload effects using energy dispersive X-ray diffraction

    M. Croft;M. Croft;Z. Zhong;N. Jisrawi;I. Zakharchenko

  • A review of fatigue crack growth resistance in the short crack growth regime

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  • Creep crack growth in alloy 718

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  • Review of the fracture mechanics approach to creep crack growth in structural alloys

    K. Sadananda;P. Shahinian

  • Prediction of threshold stress intensity for fatigue crack growth using a dislocation model

    K. Sadananda;P. Shahinian

  • Reconsideration of fatigue crack closure

    A.K. Vasudevan;K. Sadananda;N. Louat

  • Role of microstructures on the growth of long fatigue cracks

    A.K Vasudevan;K Sadananda;K Rajan

  • Extension of the Unified Approach to fatigue crack growth to environmental interactions

    K Sadananda;A.K Vasudevan;R.L Holtz

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Croft
Mark Croft Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Krishna Rajan
Krishna Rajan University at Buffalo, State University of New York

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