PSI - Issue 38

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Fabien Lefebvre et al. / Procedia Structural Integrity 38 (2022) 1–3 Lefebvre / Structural Integrity Procedia 00 (2021) 000 – 000

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Fatigue Design 2021 Group photo On behalf of the Fatigue Design 2021 International Scientific Committee and Organizing Committee, the 9 th edition of Fatigue Design 2021 took place at Cetim, Senlis, France on November 17 & 18 2021. Since 2005, and every two years, the conference takes place at Senlis, the City of culture and history, located at 45km from Paris with more than 2000 years of history. The Notre-Dame Cathedral of 12th century, Saint-Pierre church, Medieval ramparts of 13th - 16th century, the château royal and 4 museums are among the most attractive places to be visited. Organized by Cetim and his partners, the 9 th Fatigue Design 2021 International Conference aims to present the most innovative approaches, scientific and technological progress in design methodologies, testing methods and tools to evaluate and extend the fatigue lifetime of the industrial equipment. The papers are mostly focusing on the industrial applications. After USA in 2015, Italy in 2017, Japan in 2019, Germany has been proposed as th e “partner country” for Fatigue design 2021 in respect to the German advance research works in the area of fatigue and fracture mechanics in the last decade. More than 25% of conference speakers are coming from Germany including 2 plenary key speakers. For this edition, a special focus has been made on the contribution of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence to the fatigue design world. This edition of the conference covered as well the following scientific and technical topics: • additive manufacturing • experimental and numerical design and validation methods, • damage tolerance and fatigue life, • reliability -based approaches and probabilistic methods, • nonlinear behavior and cumulative damage, • fatigue of assemblies (mechanical, welded, adhesive -bonding, multimaterial...), • composite and elastomers, • contact fatigue and vibration fatigue behavior, • complex loadings and thermal and thermo-mechanical fatigue, • taking into account manufacturing process in fatigue analysis (effect of microstructure, welding, stress relief techniques...).