Scope
ECF19 will be the nineteenth in a series of biennial international conferences held by the European Structural Integrity Society (ESIS). The objective of the conference is to promote research and scientific communication on durability, reliability and safety of engineering materials, components and structures. The conference topics will focus on all important aspects of fracture and fatigue:
Main topics
- 1. Fracture mechanics current state:
- 1.1. Models, criteria, testing, engineering methods;
- 1.2. Multiaxial/mixed mode fracture;
- 1.3. Dynamic fracture; damage and fracture under dynamic loading;
- 1.4. Multicyclic loading, multi-scale material structures;
- 1.5. Nano-structured materials;
- 1.6. Fracture mechanics of biomaterials;
- 1.7. Fatigue and fracture under variable amplitude loading;
- 1.8. Damage based fracture models;
- 1.9. In-plane and out-of-plane constraint effects;
- 1.10. Fatigue of materials, components and structures
- 2. Fracture processes under the action of physical fields and chemically active media:
- 2.1. Fracture processes under the action of physical fields;
- 2.2. Fracture processes under the action of chemically active media;
- 2.3. Fracture processes under the combined action of physical fields and chemically active media
- 3. Evaluation of residual lifetime, risk and safety analysis:
- 3.1. Methods for residual lifetime evaluation and prediction;
- 3.2. Engineering risk assessment;
- 3.3. Risk analysis in safety problems;
- 3.4. Structural integrity assessment
- 4. Fracture diagnostics and monitoring:
- 4.1. New equipment and technologies for monitoring the technical state of potentially dangerous structures;
- 4.2. Diagnostics of structural materials ageing;
- 4.3. Inverse problems of defects and cracks identification
- 5. Fracture mechanics and metrology of strength and fracture resistance characteristics of structural
materials accounting for their multiscale structure (from nano- to macroscale):
- 5.1. New methods and equipment for fracture resistance testing;
- 5.2. Testing nano- and microscale samples;
- 5.3. Problems of metrology in fracture testing
- 6. Fracture mechanics application in different fields of industry:
- 6.1. Aircraft; marine transport, railway transport; nuclear; gas and oil industry; energetics;
- 6.2. Micro- and nanoelectronics;
- 6.3. Scale effects at fracture;
- 6.4. Durability, safety and reliability of complex technical systems;
- 6.5. Nondestructive testing and evaluation of structural components
- 7. Case histories:
- 7.1. Historical examples of catastrophic fracture;
- 7.2. Examples of recent catastrophic fracture;
- 7.3. Methodology of catastrophic fracture analysis
- 8. Fracture mechanics in design and technology:
- 8.1. Fracture mechanics in design of fracture resistant materials and components;
- 8.2. Fracture in technology
- 9. Computational fracture mechanics:
- 9.1. Methods of computational fracture mechanics and benchmark problems;
- 9.2. Fracture mechanics in engineering codes;
- 9.3. Numerical modeling of fracture of materials and structures;
- 9.4. Virtual fracture analysis and testing
- 10. Fracture mechanics of geomaterials and natural objects:
- 10.1. Laboratory and field measurements of fracture characteristics of geomaterials and natural objects;
- 10.2. Models of fracture in geomechanics and geoengineering;
- 10.3. Fracture mechanics and earthquake prediction;
- 10.4. Fracture mechanics in geotechnologies
Special sessions
- 1. Valery Shlyannikov, Majid R. Ayatollahi
- "Mixed mode fracture"
- 2. Constantinos Soutis, Sergey Lurie
- "Dynamic deformation and fracture of composite structures"
- 3. Antonio Martin Meizoso, Stefanie Tschegg
- "Failure of biological materials"
- 4. Gennady Kanel
- "Dynamic strength and fracture"
- 5. Georgy Karzov, Boris Margolin
"Structural integrity assessment of NPP equipments with regard for degradation and failure of materials":- Mechanisms of material degradation under operation of NPP equipments;
- Multi-scale modeling of material fracture;
- Methods for prediction of material properties and structural integrity assessment
- 6. Toshihiko Kuwabara, Sergey Alexandrov
- "Numerical and experimental analysis of fracture phenomenon in metal forming"
- 7. Georges Cailletaud, Irina Goryacheva
- "Fracture processes in contact interaction"
- 8. Grigory Nesterenko
- "Safety of aging aircraft structures"
- 9. Wolfgang Brocks
- "Recent advances in cohesive modelling"
- 10. Ewald Macha, Andrey Shanyavskiy
- "Multiaxial Fatigue and Fracture"
- 11. Krishnaswami Ravi-Chandar
- "Ductile Failure"
- 12. Aleksandar Sedmak, Marco Rakin
- "Structural integrity of welded joints"
- 13. Jesus Toribio, Hryhorii Nykyforchyn
"Environmental effects on structural integrity of materials":- Hydrogen Effects on Structural Integrity of Materials
- 14. Yury Matvienko, Guy Pluvinage
- "Notch Fracture Mechanics"
Mini-Symposia
- 1. Jaroslav Pokluda
- "Micromechanisms of Fracture and Fatigue (TC2)"
- 2. Alberto Carpinteri, Giuseppe Lacidogna
- "Acoustic and Other Forms of Energy Emissions from Fracture Phenomena"
- 3. Davide Bigoni, Gennady Mishuris
"Failure and Fracture in Complex Materials":- Micropolar media;
- Imperfect interfaces;
- Structural and nonlocal interfaces;
- Lattice structures;
- Experimental testing and photoelasticity
- 4. Victor Panin, Michael Wnuk
- "Physical Mesomechanics of Fracture"
- 5. Siegfried Schmauder, Vera Petrova
- "Modelling of multiscale fracture of materials"
Currently the List of Sessions has been completed with two new types of sessions: Special Sessions (SS) and Mini-Symposia (MS). The Organizing Committee continues accepting proposals for the organization of additional SS & MS.
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