Scientific programme
The programme will cover the following topics
- Cyclic deformation and crack initiation
- Growth of short and long cracks
- Crack growth thresholds
- Crack closure and shielding
- Fatigue modelling and simulation
- Very high cycle fatigue
- Non-destructive testing
- Hydrogen embrittlement
- Life prediction methodology, software development
- Damage evaluation and fatigue design
- Variable amplitude loads, multiaxial and mixed mode fatigue
- New materials (MMCs, CMCs, intermetallics, composites, etc.)
- Microelectronic devices and packaging
- Advanced coating systems
- Biomaterials
- Fiber composites
- Creep-fatigue interactions
- Corrosion
- Thermo-mechanical fatigue
- Fretting and contact fatigue
- Statistical and durability aspects
- Reliability analysis
- Databases and expert systems
- Welding, casting, and other manufacturing techniques
- Experimental techniques
- Surface engineering
- Case studies and industrial applications
- Joint
- Additive Manufacturing
- Others
Short bio of the pleanary lecturers