Understanding the fatigue behaviour of structural components under variable load amplitude is an essential prerequisite for safe and reliable light-weight design.For designing and dimensioning, the expected stress (load) is compared with the capacity to withstand loads (fatigue strength). In this process, the safety necessary for each particular application must be ensured. A prerequisite for ensuring the required fatigue strength is a reliable load assumption.The authors d...

Maine's troubles are only just beginning. The Mantle is still catnip to assassins. News of her victory is out and another liquidator of the living is after her. That would be enough trouble, if her ex wasn't also in town, proclaiming his undying love for her.Where was this adoration when they were dating?To make things worse, her pint-sized best friend has visitors. Noff's pack is being terrorized by a ruthless hunter with supernatural strength, sp...

Half-troll. Half-human. All badass.Maine doesn't like her father. It doesn't help that he's a troll. As in a literal, lives-under-a-bridge troll.When her father is killed, Maine returns home to settle his estate and learns that he wasn't any ordinary troll, but the town hero. Seems trolls can be superheroes, too.When Maine inherited her father's Mantle, she got more than a demonically possessed magical cape that reveals one's weakn...

Maine cast a good luck spell to save the love of her life from prison, but at what cost?Magic is controlled by chaos, and with every instance of magically-enhanced good luck comes some corresponding bad luck. Sage is free, but so is the Demon who created the Mantle.The Demon has escaped from his celestial prison. He is gathering his minions and is gunning for the Mantle.But the Mantle isn't the only weapon the Demon wants. ...

The July/August 2020 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.Featuring new fiction by Tina Connolly, Jenn Reese, M Evan MacGriogair, Chinelo Onwualu, Aliette de Bodard, Mari Ness, and Jordan Taylor. Essays by P. Djèlí Clark, Caitlin Starling, Danny Lore, and Hillary Monahan, poetry by Brandon O'Brien, Jennifer Mace, Sonya Taaffe, and Ewen Ma, interviews with M Evan MacGriogair and Aliette de Bodard by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Kirbi Fagan, and editorials by Lynn...

Can Death die?Someone is trying to kill Death. As in the Grim Reaper, San La Muerte, King Yama, Maveth, Death. Yeah, that guy.But if Death dies, who takes his place? That is the eternal question. Maine is hoping to avoid finding out the answer.She and Noff have taken on the harbinger of souls as their client, vowing to protect him as he competes in The Conjuring—the high stakes card game played by supernatural bein...

Death isn't final. But it should be . . .When Maine took up her troll father's mantle, she thought he was dead.She was right. Sort of . . .Finding out that an aspect of him went to another world comes as a surprise.Maine has to get over her shock because he's been fighting a secret war for decades and he needs her help.Now she must traverse the fabric of reality and join her father's fight to stop the forces of Chaos before ...

Maine is in prison for a crime she didn't commit.For once, the prisoner's cry of "innocence" is true. She didn't do anything wrong.Being there of her own free will doesn't change the fact that she's locked up in a mythical prison, surrounded by the worst of the worst.Disguised as an oni demon, Maine hopes to find the key to Chaos's realm.That key could be Earth's last chance of survival, and it's being held by the creature who killed her fat...

Defeating the world-ending demon was only the beginning. Now Maine must wrestle with the very fabric of reality.Maine defeated the Corrupter, saved the world, and is dating the man of her dreams. Things should be smooth sailing from now on. She deserves a boring, normal-ish life, doesn't she?Fate has other ideas in mind. The defeat of the Corrupter left a power void that needs to be filled.A strange mist surrounds Rainwater. Most dismiss it as a wei...

They say everyone gets fifteen minutes of fame in Hollywood. Too bad that Sage's fifteen minutes just ended in him being accused of murder.Sage's dream is to be a top chef. So when he gets to be a finalist on one of Hollywood's biggest cooking shows, he's over the moon. Until, that is, the top chef is poisoned.All signs point to Sage as the perpetrator.Maine and Noff have to trade magic for the fake glitz and glamor of Holl...

Win the war, or watch everyone she cares for die.When Maine took on her father's mantle, her intention was to protect a single village. No one said anything about every living being on the planet.The Demon has built a mythical stronghold in Rainwater and is gunning for the Nexus—the center of all magic on Earth.He'll have to go through Maine and her celestial army first, but he wouldn't have it any other way.Facing ...

Shakespeare’s Othello is one of his finest and most famous tragedies. This highly acclaimed performance, which ran between November 2007 and February 2008 at the Donmar Warehouse in London, features Chiwetel Ejiofor as the Moor Othello, Ewan McGregor as the scheming Iago, and Kelly Reilly as the gentle Desdemona. This recording features music written specifically for the stage production which enjoyed huge success each performance was a sell-out.