ECF26: Roma 2028

Gruppo Italiano Frattura

IGF

Organizers experience

The event will be organized by IGF, the Italian Group of Fracture. Born in 1982, IGF is the Italian branch of ESIS and is a cultural association concerned in: - spreading and promoting works and research about fracture phenomena, even forming workgroups; - promoting all the activities concerning the development of materials and structural testing standards; - cooperating with foreign associations with the same intents (International Congress on Fracture, ICF; European Structural Integrity Society, ESIS; etc.) - organizing meetings (at least, every 2 years), workshops, conferences, debates and courses about fracture phenomena and publishing meetings proceedings, news, journal etc. In more than 40 years, IGF organized dozens of national and international conferences, workshops and summer schools. In particular, considering only the main international events, it organized: - 1990: ECF8, 8 th European Conference on Fracture, Turin. - 2005: ICF11, 11 th International Congress on Fracture, Turin. - 2014: First Multilateral Workshop on “Fracture and Structural Integrity related issues”, Catania. - 2016: ECF21, 21 st International Conference on Fracture & Summer School, Catania. - 2020: First Virtual Conference on Structural Integrity (online). - 2020: 1 st Mediterranean Conference on Fracture and Structural Integrity (MedFract1), Athens. - 2021: The 7 th International Conference on Crack Paths (CP 2021), online. - 2021 ESIAM21, The 2 nd European Conference on the Structural Integrity of Additively Manufactured Materials, online. - 2021: IGF26 - 26 th International Conference on Fracture and Structural Integrity. Torino (Italy) & online. - 2022: 2 nd Mediterranean Conference on Fracture and Structural Integrity (MedFract2), Catania & online. - 2023: IGF27 - 27 th International Conference on Fracture and Structural Integrity, Rome & online. - 2023: ESIAM23, The 3 rd European Conference on the Structural Integrity of Additively Manufactured Materials, Porto, Portugal & online.

How fees will be used

The 100% of the fees will be used for the: - event organisation; -

publication of the dedicated Procedia Structural Integrity issue; - publication of the IGF journal Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale; - all the other IGF activities (e.g., the website publication).

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