Scientific Program

Contributions are accepted but not limited to the following topics:

 

  • Cyclic plasticity and internal structure
  • Ultra-low, low-, high- and giga-cycle fatigue
  • Mechanisms of fatigue damage
  • Fatigue thresholds
  • Short and long crack growth
  • Fatigue life prediction
  • Fatigue behaviour modelling and simulation
  • Creep-fatigue interactions
  • Probabilistic fatigue and fracture
  • Failure analysis and case studies
  • Applications and design codes (e.g. pressure vessels, metallic bridges, wind towers, offshore structures, etc)
  • Fatigue life extension
  • Damage evaluation and fatigue design
  • Variable amplitude loading
  • Thermal fatigue
  • Multiaxial fatigue
  • Fatigue in biomaterials
  • High temperature fatigue
  • Fatigue-corrosion
  • Environmental assisted fatigue
  • Influence of manufacturing processes on fatigue behaviour
  • Structural integrity assessments accounting for fatigue