CONFERENCE OBJECTIVE

The integrity and reliability of engineering structures require not only profound technical expertise but also a comprehensive, systems-level perspective. Achieving effective solutions demands a multidisciplinary and multiscale approach, capable of addressing variations across both spatial and temporal scales, while remaining precisely adapted to the unique requirements of each application.

Over recent decades, failure prevention has evolved into a key component of holistic engineering strategies also considering quality, performance, economic competitiveness, environmental sustainability of materials and structures as well as end-of-life (EoL) component management. Simultaneously, the innovations related to advanced materials and modern manufacturing processes, such as Additive Manufacturing, has significantly expanded the frontiers of engineering design and innovation.

In addition, the ongoing digital transformation of engineering, driven by breakthroughs in Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI), virtual testing, digital twins, and virtual certification, has introduced both unprecedented opportunities and new challenges.

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