The
international symposium on structural integrity will be held at
East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST), Shanghai,
China, during October 21-24 of 2010. The predecessor of the annual
symposium, Fracture Mechanics series, took place each year from
2003 to 2009 and was organized by China Structural Integrity Consortium
(CSIC) which include the East China University of Science and
Technology, Hefei General Machinery Research Institute, Nanjing
University of Technology, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang University
of Technology, Zhengzhou University, Southwest Jiaotong University,
Changsha University of Science and Technology, Shandong University
and Beihang University, in addition to National Technology Research
Center of Safety Engineering for Pressure Vessels and Pipelines.
The
need of higher efficiency, less consumption of resources and reduced
emission has led to higher operation parameters of various energy
and materials processing plants. The working conditions of the
plants have been going extreme. To ensure the safe operation of
the plants, the structural integrity technology plays a key role
in the materials selection, design, manufacture and maintenance
of the plants. Besides the problems arising from energy and materials
processing plants, the new developments of high techs, such as
high power electronics, micro chemo-mechanical systems and fuel
cells provide additional challenges to structural integrity.
To
meet the challenges of extreme working conditions, the failure
mechanisms of the plant components or devices should be studied,
existing theories in structural integrity should be reexamined
and new theories be developed. Innovation in materials development
and applications and structural design are the basis to ensure
the structural safety. Structural integrity prognosis or structural
health monitoring provides an important solution to plant safety
which needs more efforts.
The
objective of this symposium is hence to bring together the research
community and the application community to exchanges their new
developments and ideas. Besides the traditional fracture and damage
mechanics topics, contributions bridging the gap between the mechanics
approaches and engineering practices are highly welcome.
