[Initialement prévu 17-21 octobre 2022]

The series of International Fatigue Congress have been held in many countries across the world since its first meeting in Sweden in 1981, but not until now yet in Japan. Hiroshima will be the first city in Japan to host an International Fatigue Congress. The previous conference was held in Poitiers

Fatigue is the dominant factor determining the reliability and safety of machines and structures quite common in our daily lives like cars and airplanes, and the International Fatigue Congress provides an opportunity for researchers across the world in the field of science and engineering to present their wide range of research findings and latest technologies concerning fatigue phenomena, and based on these will serve as a platform for active discussion and further outreach.

The programme will cover the following topics

• Cyclic deformation and crack initiation
• Growth of short and long cracks
• Crack growth thresholds
• Crack closure and shielding
• Fatigue modelling and simulation
• Very high cycle fatigue
• Non-destructive testing
• Hydrogen embrittlement
• Life prediction methodology, software development
• Damage evaluation and fatigue design
• Variable amplitude loads, multiaxial and mixed mode fatigue
• New materials (MMCs, CMCs, intermetallics, composites, etc.)
• Microelectronic devices and packaging
• Advanced coating systems
• Biomaterials
• Fiber composites
• Creep-fatigue interactions
• Corrosion
• Thermo-mechanical fatigue
• Fretting and contact fatigue
• Statistical and durability aspects
• Reliability analysis
• Databases and expert systems
• Welding, casting, and other manufacturing techniques
• Experimental techniques
• Surface engineering
• Case studies and industrial applications
• Joint
• Additive Manufacturing
• Others