The traditional and well-received single oral presentations will allow sufficient time for follow-up discussions, friendly debate and relaxed participation.

The entire conference program is deliberately scheduled with equal significance to our poster sessions, themed in relation to the oral presentations and assessed for certificated awards via a process of peer review.

This is a significant opportunity for you to join colleagues from around the world to exchange and discuss new ideas and findings and to present your work as a poster or oral presentation.

Submit your abstract

We welcome poster and abstract submissions on the following topics:

• Structural metals and alloys pertinent to the aerospace, marine, off-shore, power generation and land based transportation industries
• Novel experimental methods to characterise fatigue damage and crack growth
• Overload/underload, arbitrary loading sequences, service spectrum loads, combined HCF/LCF
• Residual stress effects on fatigue damage and crack growth, measurement of internal stresses
• Extreme environments, including the effects of corrosion, oxidation, abrasion, elevated or cryogenic temperatures
• Innovative theoretical approaches, computational and analytical methods
• Life prediction methodologies for structural metals and alloys
• Fatigue mechanisms in advanced alloys and metallic systems
• Micro-structurally short cracks

Contributions relating to ceramics, nano-materials, construction materials (concrete), polymers (including rubber) and composites will not be considered for FDSM IX.

Conference Chair:

Sylvie Pommier, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France

Conference Committee:

Martin R. Bache, Swansea University, UK
Ryan Morrissey, US Air Force Laboratory, WPAFB, USA
Kenneth Barlow, Naval Air Systems Command, USA
Jaime Tupiassú Pinho de Castro, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil