University of Parma


University College London


Fraunhofer Institute for Structural Durability and System Reliability, Darmstadt


European Structural
Integrity Society


German Association for Materials
Research and Testing


French Society for Metallurgy
and Materials


ASTM International
Standards Worldwide
 
 

 

The Ninth International Conference on

Multiaxial Fatigue & Fracture (ICMFF9)

 
Two Special Issues of International Journals with extended versions of
selected papers presented at ICMFF9 will be published after the Conference:

(1)

International Journal of Fatigue

Special Issue on Multiaxial Fatigue
 

(2)

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Special Issue on Multiaxial Fracture

Invited Plenary Lectures
A. Fatemi, N. Shamsaei (USA). "Multiaxial Fatigue Modeling and Some Simple Approximations"
A.A. Shanyavskiy (Russia). "Scale Levels of Crak Closure Effects and Simulation Fatigue Cracking of Al-based Sheet Materials Subjected to Biaxial Cyclic Loads"
C.M. Sonsino (Germany). "Material Influence on Multiaxial Fatigue Response"
K. TaeJoon, S. Zhang, M. Sakane (Japan). "Notch Effect on Multiaxial Low Cycle Fatigue"
G. Marquis (Finland). "Current Trends in Multiaxial Fatigue Research and Assessment"

Conference Chairmen

Andrea Carpinteri (Parma, Italy)
Les P. Pook (London, UK)
C. M. Sonsino (Darmstadt, Germany)


Scientific Committee

F.P. Brennan (Cranfield, UK)

T. Palin-Luc (Talence, France)

M. de Freitas (Lisbon, Portugal)

A. Pineau (Evry, France)

Jaime Dominguez (Seville, Spain)

M. Sakane(Kusatsu, Japan)

F. Ellyin (Vancouver , Canada)

A. Shanyavskiy(Moscow , Russia)

A. Fatemi (Toledo, USA)

S. Shukayev (Kiev, Ukraine)

G. Glinka (Waterloo, Canada)

D. Socie (Urbana, USA)

F. Iacoviello (Cassino, Italy)

A. Spagnoli (Parma, Italy)

M.N. James (Plymouth, UK)

S. Stefanov (Sofia, Bulgaria)

P. Lazzarin (Padua, Italy)

R. Sunder (Bangalore , India)

J. Liu (Shanghai , China)

K. Tanaka (Nagoya, Japan)

E. Macha (Opole, Poland)

D. Taylor (Dublin, Ireland)

G. Marquis (Helsinki, Finland)

M.Vormwald (Darmstadt, Germany)

Y. Murakami (Fukuoka, Japan)

J.R. Yates (Sheffield, UK)

A. Navarro (Seville, Spain)

H. Zenner (Dresden, Germany)

 

Local Organising Committee

Andrea Carpinteri (Parma)

andrea.carpinteri@unipr.it

Roberto Brighenti (Parma)

brigh@unipr.it

Andrea Spagnoli (Parma)

spagnoli@unipr.it

Sabrina Vantadori (Parma)

sabrina.vantadori@unipr.it


Main Topics of the Conference

The aim of this conference is not only to display the substantial international progress achieved but also to illustrate how to apply research results to industrial practice and how to close the gap between design and manufacturing engineers and scientists.

Despite increased efforts in understanding of multiaxial fatigue and fracture behaviour, failure assessment procedures are now becoming more complex. Therefore, it is essential to review the progress via a forum that includes experimentalists, theoreticians, industrial practitioners and academic experts.

Members of different industrial laboratories and scientists from all over the world are invited to contribute with presentations on any of the following topics:

1. Loading
Constant amplitude (LCF, MCF, HCF); Variable amplitude and damage accumulation; Gigacycle fatigue; Thermal fatigue and creep; Contact fatigue; Proportional and non-proportional loading

2. Fracture Mechanics
Initiation and short crack growth; Mixed mode behaviour; Multiaxial fracture

3. Materials
Metallic; Non-metallic; Defects and inhomogeneities; Constitutive modelling; Damage mechanics

4. Testing and Applications
Design (notches and stress concentrations); Joined structures; Residual stresses; Case studies; Virtual simulation; Experimental verification

Deadlines

5th

 November, 2009: Abstract Submission

15th

 December, 2009: Abstract Acceptance

15th

 February, 2010: Camera-ready papers

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