ESIS Newsletter December 2023

Newsletter #70-2023

Switzerland

Annual meeting of the Swiss National group: participation was 21 people. The program is available at this link (LINK).

Andreas J. Brunner

Meeting of the subsection “Fracture and Damage Mechanics”.

United Kingdom

Events organised or co-organised by UK FESI (Forum for Engineering Structural Integrity) since June 2023 are as follows: Structural Integrity in the Nuclear World (12 Sept 2023, Cambridge), in association with TWI Struc tural Integrity Group. Speakers included: - Mike Martin, Engineering Associate Fellow (Structural Integrity), Rolls-Royce on Probabi listic structure integrity - Jack Beswick, Structural Integrity/Finite Ele ment Senior Consultant, Jacobs on Recent developments in R6 - Steve Jones, Professor of Joining Technologies (Welding, Brazing and Bonding), University of Sheffield, on Can we improve welding integrity from an artificial perspective—PROBABLY. ‘The expansion of a Welding Engineer’s toolbox for the future’. - Charles Schneider, NDT Consultant, TWI Ltd on Advanced ultrasonic NDT of austenitic pipework for stress corrosion cracking - Huan Wu, Senior Numerical Simulation Engi neer, TWI Ltd on A probabilistic model for the prediction of the distribution of breaching times of carbon steel canisters - Dr Gareth Hopkin, Principal Inspector of Nuc lear Installations, Office for Nuclear Regulation on the use of probabilistic safety assessments in the nuclear industry-a regulatory view Forthcoming events: Future Challenges for Structural Integrity of High Integrity Components, TAGSI-FESI Symposium 2024, 17 April 2024, Manchester (LINK).

Exhibition of poster presentations.

Chairman of the Russian National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Irina Goryacheva, presents a diploma for the best report to graduate student Daria Fedotova.

Valery Shlyannikov

Serbia

James Marrow

The Second International Symposium on Risk Analysis and Safety of Complex Structures and Components (IRAS 2023) proceedings is publish ed by Elsevier, Procedia Structural Integrity, Vol. 48, comprising 52 papers and Editorial by A. Sed mak, S. Sedmak and B. Djordjevic (LINK).

Aleksandar Sedmak

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