Keynote speakers announced for the International Conference on Fatigue Damage of Structural Materials XI

The organizational committee for the eleventh biennialInternational Conference on Fatigue Damage of Structural Materialsis pleased to announce that the following Keynote Speakers will be presenting at the conference.

Multi-scale Fatigue ModelingKeynote:David McDowell,Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Environmental FatigueKeynote:Stan Lynch,Australian Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO), Australia

Tomographic Crack AnalysisKeynote:Jean-Yves Buffiere,Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon, France

Contact FatigueKeynote: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 theonline abstract submission system.

Conference Topics

1. EnvironmentalCracking
2. High Temperature Crack Growth
3. Contact Fatigue
4. Advanced Crack Monitoring Techniques (tomography, etc.)
5. Microstructure Scale Computational Modeling
6. Loading Protocol Effects (variable amplitude loading, thermo-mechanical loading, etc.)
7. Macro-scale Fatigue Prognosis Techniques
8. Effects of Materials Modification (weld, shot peening, etc.)