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