ESIS NEWSLETTER - December 2024

ECF24 Report The 24th European Conference on Fracture, ECF24, was held on-site in Zagreb, Croatia, with possible online participation, from 26 - 30 August 2024. The ECF24 Conference was organised by the European Structural Integrity Society (ESIS) and by the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb. ECF24 managed to bring together 650 scientists and engineers from 54 countries from around the world, with the highest number of participants from Japan (67), Germany (63), Italy (48), France (39), UK (38) and China (37). The ECF24 Conference was a forum for discussion of the present and future trends in experimental, analytical and numerical fracture mechanics, fatigue, structural integrity assessment, failure analysis, and other important topics in the field. The participants of the ECF24 Conference had the opportunity to interact and exchange ideas with leading researchers across a wide range of disciplines and get acquainted with the state of the art in the theory and applications of fatigue and fracture mechanics. Conference Chair

Željko Božić

Venue The conference was organized at the Mozaik Event Center in Zagreb, Croatia.

Nine Plenary Lectures were presented at the ECF24 Conference by distinguished scientists and researchers. 90 parallel sessions were carried out, with 535 Oral presentations (50 Online). 73 Poster presentations were given. 17 Thematic Symposia were organized, 14 of them by ESIS Technical Committees.

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