The International Journal of Structural Integrity sponsors the Iberian Conference on Fracture and Structural Integrity 2010

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(2010), "The International Journal of Structural Integrity sponsors the Iberian Conference on Fracture and Structural Integrity 2010", International Journal of Structural Integrity, Vol. 1 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijsi.2010.43601aab.004

The International Journal of Structural Integrity sponsors the Iberian Conference on Fracture and Structural Integrity 2010

Article Type: News From: International Journal of Structural Integrity, Volume 1, Issue 1

The Iberian Conference on Fracture and Structural Integrity 2010 – Conferência Ibérica de Fractura e Integridade Estrutural, CIFIE’2010 – will bring together the researchers working on fracture, fatigue, structural integrity and related areas of the two Iberian peninsula countries: Spain and Portugal.

In both countries, there is an established tradition of periodical scientific meetings on these matters. The Spanish Conferences on Fracture are organized by the Grupo Español de Fractura and are held every year, whereas the Portuguese Conferences on Fracture are held every two years in the context of the Sociedade Portuguesa de Materiais. So far, three joint Spanish-Portuguese events took place, two in Portugal (Braga, 1987 and Luso, 1996) and one in Spain (Mérida, 1993).

Both for Spain and Portugal, the published proceedings of these series of meetings constitute important archives of the work performed; in Spain, they take the form of a series, Anales de Mecánica de la Fractura, already with 26 issues. Perusal of these publications shows a wealth of research on all aspects of the field, from experimental work and numerical modelling on a variety of structures and materials, to case studies and reports of real engineering applications in many different fields as aeronautical, mechanical, civil, railways, process engineering, etc.; as elsewhere, recent years witnessed growing interest in biomedical applications.

The last edition of the Portuguese Conference on Fracture (11th) took place in the Caparica campus of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa on 13-15 February 2008. In the same year, the XXV Encuentro del Grupo Español de Fractura was held on 5-7 March at the Parador de Sigüenza. During those conferences, the idea of a new joint event to be held in 2010 was discussed. The agreement was achieved on October 2008, when it was decided to hold a joint Iberian Conference on Fracture the 17-19 March 2010 at the campus of Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, in Porto, Portugal, a country associated to developments in Fracture research since the 1970s and 1980s of last century. Among examples of related events in Portugal, the early 5th European Conference on Fracture, organized in 1984 in the context of the European Group on Fracture (predecessor of ESIS), the 6th International Conference Biaxial/Multiaxial Fatigue and Fracture, 2001, the 1st International Conference on Engineering Failure Analysis ICEFA-1, 2004, or a considerable number of more recent events of the European Mechanics Society may be mentioned.

After an initial period in the 1970s, dedicated to the creation and promotion of a critical mass of researchers, when Portuguese students had scholarships to obtain doctorates abroad, particularly in the UK and France, the more recent decades witnessed the steady development of the research capacity in Portugal. A clear sign of the increasing internationalization of the R&D activities in Portugal is the growth of international publications and participation in EU projects, or the frequent stays in Portuguese universities of post-doctoral researchers and visiting professors through programmes such as the EU “Marie Curie”, the US Fulbright Commission or the NATO post-doctoral scholarships, among others. Fatigue and fracture research in Portugal was the object of a special issue of the journal Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures – Vol. 27, September 2004 – with Professor Paulo M.S.T. de Castro acting as Guest Editor.

Topics of CIFIE’2010 include: analytical and numerical methods; case studies of fracture, fatigue and durability; durability of structures; experimental techniques; fatigue of materials and structures; fracture of materials (metallic alloys, ceramics, composites, polymeric and bio); interaction with the environment.

Organizing committee

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   Portuguese members:

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     José A. Martins Ferreira (Universidade de Coimbra);

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     Manuel J.M. de Freitas (IST, Lisbon);

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     Maria Manuela B. Oliveira (INETI, Lisbon);

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     Paulo M.S. Tavares de Castro (FEUP, Porto), Chairman; and

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     Pedro P. Camanho (FEUP, Porto);

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   Spanish members:

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     Antonio Martín Meizoso (CEIT-Universidad de Navarra, San Sebastián);

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     Gustavo V. Guinea (Dpto. Ciencia de Materiales, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid ETSI Caminos, Canales y Puertos, Madrid), coord. of Spanish participation;

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     Javier Belzunce (Universidad de Oviedo, Gijón);

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     José Fernández Sáez (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid); and

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     Marc Anglada (Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Barcelona).

Honorary, non-executive members of the Organizing Committee

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  Carlos A. G. Moura Branco (IST, Lisbon);

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  Manuel Elices (UPM, Madrid); and

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  Manuel Fuentes (CEIT-UN, San Sebastian).

The Scientific Committee is composed of 30 Spanish and Portuguese researchers.

Invited key note speakers

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  Eann A Patterson, Editor of the journal Fracture and Fatigue of Engineering Materials and Structures, Chair and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA.

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  Ky Dang Van, Research Director at the Laboratoire de Mécanique, École Polytechnique, Paris, France, until September 2008.

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  Michael Windisch, Fracture Mechanics and Damage Tolerance Department TEA, MT Aerospace AG, Augsburg, Germany.

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  Nikos Stergiopulos, Director, Laboratory of Hemodynamics and Cardiovascular Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Prizes for best paper, best student paper, and best picture, as well as the publication of selected papers in specialized international journals – International Journal of Structural Integrity, and Strain – are foreseen.