CONFERENCE OBJECTIVE

The effective prevention of failure in engineering structures necessitates a profound depth of expertise. It frequently mandates a multidisciplinary and multiscale approach, taking into account both size and time dimensions, tailored to the specific application at hand. Over the past decades, failure prevention is becoming an integral part of holistic approaches that encompass aspects of quality, performance, financial viability, and ecological sustainability of materials and structures. In parallel, the emergence of new materials and manufacturing methodologies, such as Additive Manufacturing, has widened the perspectives for engineering structures.

Furthermore, advancements in digitalizing engineering through the exploitation of the progress made in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, the increasing use of virtual tests, digital twins, and virtual certification, etc., are offering new technological opportunities whilst at same time pose new challenges which must be addressed.

TOPICS

The Conference is inviting contributions addressing, but not limited to the listed topics:

• Engineering alloys and metals
• Engineering composites
• Novel materials
• Additively Manufactured materials and structures
• Bio-based engineering composites
• Nanomaterials: technology, properties and modeling fracture behavior
• Smart materials and structures
• Functional materials for sustainable energy technologies
• Hybrid materials (metal-metal, metal-composites, hybrid composites)
• Recycling and upcycling of structural composites
• Recycling of metals and their alloys
• Multiscale (nano, meso, micro and macroscopic) approaches to understand mechanical behaviour and fracture of engineering materials and structures
• Damage tolerant microstructures
• Damage tolerance of stiffened structures
• Structural integrity and structural health monitoring
• Fracture and fatigue of materials and structures
• Systems safety
• Experimental studies on the relation between microstructure and mechanical fracture processes
• Testing and control systems
• Multi-scale and multi-physics computational simulation of structural response / model validation
• Computational mechanics and analytical methods
• Virtual testing, digital twins, virtual certification, and implementation of AI.
• Model validation by full-field experimental methods
• Characterization of fractures
• Environmentally assisted fracture
• Corrosion, wear and surface degradation of materials and structures
• Surface engineering and coatings
• Integrated approaches for design, manufacturing, and reliability of engineering structures
• Metal casting technology
• Joining technologies
• Non-destructive testing
• Circular economy practices in engineering design and production
• Robotics and Automation for failure prevention
• Data Analytics and Big Data related to failure
• Internet of Things (IoT) related to failure