ESIS Newsletter December 2023

Newsletter #70-2023

Prof. Aleksandar Grbovic for outstanding contribution to Fatigue Crack Growth Simulation, to Prof. Marc Meyers for outstanding contribution to Dynamic Behavior of Materials and Charac terization of New Materials and Dr. Motomichi Koyama for outstanding contribution to Material Resistance to Hydrogen Cracking. Previous awar dees included Prof. H. Nykyforchyn, Dr. J. Michop oulos, Prof. G. Lesiuk (2022), Prof. F. Berto, Prof. M. Veljkovic, Prof. Maria Feng (2021), Prof. N. Ja mes, Prof. R. Calcada, Prof. V. Moskvicev (2020), Prof. H. Adeli, Prof. A. Ferdinandez-Candelli, Prof. A. Sedmak (2019). Award of merit was given to Prof. A. De Jesus, Dr. B. Djordjevic and Dr. S. Sedmak. In 2024 TC12 will organize thematic ECF24 symposium in Zagreb, 26-30 August 2024. The third IRAS conference will be held in spring time, 2025, in Wroclaw, Poland.

TC4: Polymers, Polymer Composites and Adhesives

The fall meeting 2023 was held in person in Enschede (NL) September 28-29 with about 30 participants. The next event is the 9th International Con ference on Fracture of Polymers, Composites and Adhesives, March 24–27 2024, Eurotel Victoria, Les Diablerets, Switzerland (LINK). The spring 2024 meeting will be held fully virtual on April 11, 2024 (for participation and link, Laurent Warnet is the main contact).

Andreas J. Brunner

Aleksandar Sedmak

TC6: Ceramics

2023 FAC 2023, Fractography of Advanced Cera mics 2023, 3.9.-5.9.2023, Leoben, Austria, 60 participants (co-organizer Jan Dusza) ICMEM 2023, International Conference on Manufacturing Engineering and Materials, 26.06.- 30.06 2023, Nový Smokovec, Hotel Atrium, Slova kia, 200 participants (co-organizer Pavol Hvizdos) Processing and Properties of Advanced Cera mics and Glass 2023, Joint annual meeting of the Slovak Silicate Scientific – Technological Society and Workshop of advanced ceramics and glasses, Congress Centre Academia, Stará Lesná 25–27 October 2023, 50 participants (organizer Jan Dusza) 2024 International Conference on the Science of Hard Materials ICSHM12, Taj Bentota, Sri Lanka, 11-15 March 2024 (co-organizer Pavol Hvizdos) The 14th International Conference on Ceramic Materials and Components for Energy and Environmental Systems (CMCEE-14), Budapest Congress Centre, Budapest, Hungary, 18–22 August 2024 (co-organizer Pavol Hvizdos).

TC14: Integrity of Biomedical and Biological Materials

Activities of ESIS TC14 “Integrity of Biomedical and Biological Materials” 1. Special Issue of Procedia Structural Integrity (Elsevier) was published with a selection of papers presented at the 2 nd International Con ference on Medical Devices: Materials, Mechanics and Manufacturing ICMD3M 2023 organised by TC 14 "Integrity of Biomedical and Biological Mate rials" in Corfu, Greece in June 2023 (LINK). The published papers were focused on the development of underpinning technologies for the manufacturing and assessment of a number of different medical devices, ranging from stents and tissue engineering scaffolds to catheters, microfluidic devices and orthotic systems. Most of the featured studies were based on computational and/or in vitro simulations, whilst the manufac turing approaches investigated included additive development of computational fluid dynamics models to assess the performance of 3D printed tissue scaffolds within a perfusion bioreactor; - degradation process in TPMS-based polymer PLA scaffolds; - novel biofabrication process based on micro fluidics; - extrusion additive manufacturing to design and classify compliant geometries in orthotics systems, - correlation between metal fused filament fabrication parameters and material properties of sintered 17-4PH stainless steel; manufacturing and bio fabrication. The following topics were discussed: -

Ján Duzsa Pavol Hvizdoš

TC12: Risk analysis and safety

In the scope of Second International Symposi um on Risk Analysis and Safety of Complex Struc tures and Components, (LINK), Belgrade, April 2023, TC12 Robert Moskovic award was given to

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