The organizational committee for the eleventh biennial International Conference on Fatigue Damage of Structural Materials is pleased to announce that the following Keynote Speakers will be presenting at the conference.
Multi-scale Fatigue Modeling Keynote: David McDowell, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Environmental Fatigue Keynote: Stan Lynch, Australian Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO), Australia
Tomographic Crack Analysis Keynote: Jean-Yves Buffiere, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon, France
Contact Fatigue Keynote: David Nowell, University of Oxford, UK
Technical Sessions Announcement
Two of the technical sessions will be dedicated to pioneers in their respective fields, who have recently passed.
- Environmental Cracking Session – Dedicated to Robert P.Wei, Lehigh University, USA
- Contact Fatigue Session – Dedicated to Kenneth L. Johnson, Cambridge University, UK
The abstract submission deadline is the 1 April 2016. Submit your abstracts to us now using the online abstract submission system.
Conference Topics
- Environmental Cracking
- High Temperature Crack Growth
- Contact Fatigue
- Advanced Crack Monitoring Techniques (tomography, etc.)
- Microstructure Scale Computational Modeling
- Loading Protocol Effects (variable amplitude loading, thermo-mechanical loading, etc.)
- Macro-scale Fatigue Prognosis Techniques
- Effects of Materials Modification (weld, shot peening, etc.)