Guest editorial: fatigue design and material defects

This issue of Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures contains a collection of manuscripts presented at the Second International Symposium on Fatigue Design and Material Defects (FDMD II) held in Paris, France, on June 11 – 13, 2014 organized by the French Society for Metallurgy and Materials (SF2M) and the German Association for Materials Research and Testing (DVM)