XVIII International Colloquium
MECHANICAL FATIGUE OF METALS
Gijón (Spain), September 5-7, 2016
Gijón has a population of nearly 280.000 and is located at the seaside, in the northern coast of Spain. It has three large and sandy beaches, a marina with an enviable location, right in the center of the city, next to the historic district of Cimadevilla, authentic Roman baths, an arqaeological nature park and many other places worth to visit.
Gijón has a population of nearly 280.000 and is located at the seaside, in the northern coast of Spain. It has three large and sandy beaches, a marina with an enviable location, right in the center of the city, next to the historic district of Cimadevilla, authentic Roman baths, an arqaeological nature park and many other places worth to visit.
40 km. from Gijón, Asturias airport is connected with the main national airports of Spain (Madrid and Barcelona) and with several international destinations
Gijón has a population of nearly 280.000 and is located at the seaside, in the northern coast of Spain. It has three large and sandy beaches, a marina with an enviable location, right in the center of the city, next to the historic district of Cimadevilla, authentic Roman baths, an arqaeological nature park and many other places worth to visit.
Welcome
Fatigue damage represents one of the most important types of damage to which structural materials are subjected in normal industrial services, that can finally result in a sudden and unexpected abrupt fracture. Since metal alloys are still today the most used materials in designing the majority of components and structures able to carry the highest service loads, the study of the different aspects of fatigue attracts permanent attention of scientists, engineers and designers.
The first International Colloquium on Mechanical Fatigue of Metals (ICMFM) was organized in Brno, Czech Republic in 1968. Afterwards, regular Colloquia on Mechanical Fatigue of Metals started in 1972 also in Brno and were originally limited to participants form the countries of the former “Eastern Block”. They continued until the 12th Colloquium in 1994 (Miskolc, Hungary) every two years. After a break twelve years long, the Colloquia restarted in 2006 (Ternopil, Ukraine), followed by the ones in 2008 (Varna, Bulgaria), 2010 (Opole, Poland), 2012 (Brno, Czech Republic), until the last one, which was organized in 2014 in Verbania, Italy, with the aim of opening the Colloquium to participants from all countries interested in the subject of fatigue of metallic materials.
The XVIII International Colloquium on Mechanical Fatigue of Metals (ICMFM XVIII) will be organized in 2016 in the town of Gijón, located at seaside in the northern coast of Spain. This Conference is aimed to facilitate and encourage the exchange of knowledge and experiences among the different communities involved in both basic and applied research in this field, the fatigue of metals, looking at the problem of fatigue from microscopic, analytical, simulative and applicative points of view.
Topics of the conference
Contributions are accepted but not limited to the following topics:
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Cyclic plasticity and internal structure
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Low, high and giga cycle fatigue
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Mechanisms of fatigue damage
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Fatigue thresholds
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Short and long crack growth
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Life prediction
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Fatigue modelling
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Variable amplitude loading
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Thermal fatigue
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Multiaxial fatigue
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Fatigue in biomaterials
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High temperature fatigue
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Fatigue-corrosion
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Environmental assisted fatigue
Important Dates
Abstract Submission:
Closed (contact Secretariat)
Notification of abstract acceptance:
29th February 2016
Registration Opens:
1st February 2016
Early Bird Registration:
15th May 2016
Deadline for Paper Submission:
30th May 2016
Contact us
Conference Secretariat
Email: secretary@icmfm18.org
Address: Materials Science Department
Polytechnic School of Engineeering
Viesques Campus, 33203 Gijón (Spain)
The official language of the Colloquium is English. All abstracts, papers, presentations and posters must be in English.
Proceedings of the ICMFM18 will be published in Procedia Engineering (optional)
Accepted and reviewed papers of the ICMFM18 will be published as one dedicated issue in Procedia Engineering, a high visibility online publication on ScienceDirect.com (www.ScienceDirect.com), Elsevier’s premier online platform, with free access (open access) for millions of researchers worldwide.
Journal publication of selected papers
Selected papers will be published in special issues of Engineering Fracture Mechanics, International Journal of Structural Integrity and Fracture and Structural Integrity. Contacts with Editors of other indexed International Journals are still going on. Requirements will be provided at a later stage.
