ECF26: Roma 2028

Gruppo Italiano Frattura

IGF

Provisional scientific program

Plenary lectures Option 1: 09.00 – 11.00 (2 plenary lectures per day) The first day of the conference will be organized as follows:

09.30 – 10.10: Opening Remarks 10.10 – 11.00: Honorary lecture Option 2: Opening remarks, Honorary lecture and all the Plenary lectures will be held on the first day, at the main Sapienza “Aula Magna” (about 1000 seats; located at about 2 km from the conference venue). The closing remark will be held at the conference venue. Regular sessions Regular sessions will be scheduled according to the following timetable (it is possible to organize up to 11 parallel

sessions): Option 1:

11.40 – 13.00 (4 presentations) 14.00 – 15.20 (4 presentations) 16.00 – 18.00 (6 presentations) Option 2

09:00 – 11.00 (6 presentations) 11.40 – 13.00 (4 presentations) 14.00 – 15.20 (4 presentations) 16.00 – 18.00 (6 presentations) Specialist symposia Specialist symposia will be organized also in cooperation with the ESIS Technical Committees that will support the event. The proposed subjects are: - Elastic plastic and finite fracture mechanics at different length scales - Fatigue of engineering materials and structures - Polymers, ceramics, concrete and composite - Dynamics of fracture and structural transformations - Environmentally assisted cracking, high temperature mechanical testing and hydrogen embrittlement - Failure analysis and forensic engineering: experimental and numerical - Structural integrity of large structures and infrastructures, components and joints - Tribo-mechanical fracture - Data-driven methods and machine learning applied to structural integrity ESIS activities ESIS ExCo, TC meetings and ESIS Council are considered in the timetable. This timetable is obviously changeable according to the ESIS necessities. Relevant scientific topics to promote - Additive Manufactured Materials

- Alloys: Al alloys - Alloys: Cast irons - Alloys: Cu alloys - Alloys: Mg alloys - Alloys: Ni alloys - Alloys: Refractory metals

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