ESIS Newsletter December 2023

Newsletter #70-2023

branch). The conference was focused on both theoretical and practical problems in the field of non-traditional cements and concretes.

such as Prof. Marc Geers, TU Eindhoven (NL), Prof. Anne Marie Habraken, U Liege (BE), Prof. Wim Van Paepegem, U Gent (BE), Prof. René Alderliesten, TU Delft (NL), Prof. Brecht Van Hooreweder, KU Leuven (BE), Prof. Aude Simar, UC Louvain (BE), and Prof. Semih Perdahcioglu, U Twente (NL), shared their findings and challenges.

NTCC 2023 attendants – snap by Jan Klusák

The NTCC 2023 conference was opened by its chairmen Vlastimil Bílek, Stanislav Seitl, Zbyněk Keršner with rumour about the Brno Dragon, which was killed by a non-traditional use of construction material. Almost a hundred papers were presented in the form of lectures or posters dealt with modern methods of the use, preparation and evaluation of non-traditional cement and concrete. We are proud to have been able to provide the world’s scientists with the opportunity to meet and communicate the material and structural problems and challenges associated with concrete. The International Conference on Multiscale Materials Modeling (MMM), September 22-27, 2024, Prague Congress Center, Czech Republic will be organised by Institute of Physics of Materials of the Czech Academy of Sciences and it will be supported European Structural Integrity Society (ESIS –Czech Republic branch). The MMM series is the world’s largest confe rence series focused on different aspects of MMM. The next conference MMM-11 is expected to gather around 800 participants from around the world. The conference will focus on both classical as well as new ground-breaking directions in the field. These are mainly: - Mathematical and computational foundation of multiscale methods - Probabilistic modeling and uncertainty quantification - Quantum mechanical studies of structure and properties of materials - Microscopic origins and multiscale modeling of plasticity, fracture and fatigue of materials - Multiscale studies of hard materials (crys talline, amorphous), soft and biological ma terials, multifunctional, hybrid materials and interfaces - Microstructure evolution across multiple length and time scales - Design of materials for energy conversion, harvesting and storage - Multiscale modeling of nuclear materials and radiation effects

BDFM 2023: participants

During the poster session, doctoral students and researchers had the opportunity to present their work. In this session, all participants could pitch their current and future research to a jury. Out of the 16 participating researchers, the pre sentation by Dr. Sanjay Gothivarekar (KU Leuven) on "Influence of grain distribution and elastic hete rogeneity on fatigue life prediction of thin electrical steels" was awarded the best poster presentation.

BDFM 2023

Reza Talemi

Czech Republic

The 7th International Conference Non-Traditio nal Cement & Concrete, June 25–28, 2023 Brno, Czech Republic was organised by Brno University of Technology – Faculties of Civil Engineering and Chemistry, VSB–TUO: Technical University of Ostrava – Faculty of Civil Engineering, and Institute of Physics of Materials of the Czech Academy of Sciences and it was supported by Czech Concrete Society (CBS) and by European Structural Integrity Society (ESIS – Czech Republic

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