FM2005, Call for Paper

CALL FOR PAPER (First Round Announcement)

Fracture Mechanics 2005: Multiscale Damage Related to Environment Assisted Cracking

Zhengzhou, Henan, China
November 3-4, 2005

Organizing Institutions
- Thermal Energy Engineering Research Center, Zhengzhou University
- East China University of Science and Technology
- National Engineering Research Center for Pressure Vessel Safety Technology
- Nanjing University of Technology
- Zhejiang University
- Zhejiang University of Technology
Symposium Sponsors
- Chinese Pressure Vessel Institution
- High Tech and Industrialization Department, Ministry of Science and Technology of China
- General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of China
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society

Scope of Symposium

The annual meeting of FM 2005 will be organized by the Thermal Energy Engineering, Research Center, Zhengzhou University, China. A part of the meeting will be held as a seminar at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Lehigh University, USA, August 15-16, 2005, where technical papers will be presented and discussions will take place in the area of corrosion failure.

Since FM 2003 and FM 2004 that were held, respectively, in Shanghai and Huangshan, the FMG (Fracture Mechanics Group) originated in Southern China has broadened its interaction with International Engineering Societies and prominent individual scholars and scientists. This action was necessitated by the convergence of science and engineering in the era of nanotechnology. To this end, a forum was established where interviews with current scientists and engineers can be made available to the fracture mechanics community, not just in China but to the world at large. Seemingly unrelated disciplines are no longer so when they are viewed at the smaller scales. To be published in the FM 2005 Proceedings is the email-interview of the Chinese leading nuclear physicist and Academician Dr. Cheng Kaijia who studied under the Nobel laureate Max Born. As a graduate student, he rubbed shoulders with giants such as Schrödinger, Heisenberg Pauli. Quoting from his interview: “I argued on the two ideas that only electronic interaction prevails (by Heisenberg) and the other as I maintained that both electronic and lattice interaction would prevail. ----Hence, Heisenberg and I became involved in the heated controversy of superconductivity.” For the past decade, Dr. Cheng turned to a material scientist and made use of the Thomas-Fermi-Dirac method in nuclear physics for the fabrication of light weight and ductile materials nanometer in size. Dr. Cheng had the courage to turn from physics to engineer. There is no reason why engineers cannot turn to physicists or chemists. The FMG has also made extensive efforts to interact with International Societies by interviewing the current Presidents and attending Conferences. They include:

The International Society of Mesomechanics
The European Structural Integrity Society
The 16th European Conference of Fracture in 2006

The dissemination of current knowledge in science and technology is more important than ever before. It can be the difference between success or failure in making decisions related to research work. Less compartmentalization of subject matters should be the rule since all disciplines in principle rest on a common ground, as the scale is made smaller and smaller. Richard Feynman’s 1959 at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society at the California Institute of Technology has provided the main trust for the development of nanotechnology. More than four decades have been elapsed. Still there may be others who are not aware of this fact. It is this kind of cutting edge knowledge that FMG will focus on and disseminate to the scientific and engineering communities via the mechanisms of email interview, annual meetings and publications.

The study of failure initiation at the lower scale levels has suggested that environment can have a large influence on the material integrity of structural components used in large structures such as nuclear reactor vessels, bridge cables, aircraft and automobile parts, etc. Chemical instability at the nanoscale can be a cause of concern, especially when the service temperature is high. Intergranular Stress Corrosion Cracking (IGSCC) for example is particularly vulnerable to components used in the PWR and BWR nuclear power generation systems. Stress Corrosion Cracking (SCC) of bridge cables is also a critical issue as these structural components age in aggressive environments. The same applies to aging aircrafts that are too costly to be retired.

Symposium Topics
The FM 2005 meetings welcome the submission of research papers in the following:
• Aging of metals and polymers
• Effects of high temperatures and moistures
• Environment assisted cracking and failure
• Multiscale modeling of physical systems
• Nanoscale behavior of matter and device
• Chemical instability
• Atomistic simulation models and applications
• Interatomic potentials for two or more interacting atoms
• Monitoring and defect detecting methodologies
• Structure failure in contrast to malfunction of micron size device
• Safety issues associated with engineering materials and products
• New laws for small scale matters and those used by tradition.

Other topics at both the macroscopic and nanoscopic scale are also welcome, particularly in showing the difference in behavior when the scale is changed. Please refer to the web page

http://chemech.ecust.edu.cn/FM2005/

Conference Organizers
Executive Chairmen
Prof. Qiwu Dong, Zhengzhou University

Symposium Series Chairman
Prof. Shan-Tung Tu, East China University of Science & Technology /Nanjing University of Technology
International Advisory Committee
G.C. Sih (Chairman), Lehigh University, USA
J. Darlaston, UK
J. Fisher, Lehigh University, USA
T. Hyde, University of Nottingham, UK
M. K. Kassir, City University of New York, USA
J. D. Lee, George Washington University, USA
P.N. Li, ECUST, China
H. Nied,Lehigh University, USA
I A Shibli, ETD Ltd, UK
C.L. Tsai, Ohio State University, USA
T. Vu-Khanh, Université du Québec, Canada

Local Organizing Committee

Prof. Q.W. Dong (Chairman)
Prof. M.S. Liu
Prof. Z.D. Wang
Prof. Z.L. Gao
Prof. J.M. Gong

Technical Papers
The official language of the conference is English. All papers shall be written and presented in English. Accepted papers will be either published in the Journal of China Pressure Vessel Technology (English Edition) or Journal of Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics. Those who wish to have their full papers reviewed and published in the Journal of Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics, please state so in the cover of letter or email.
Papers should be submitted to the following address by post or through email:

Prof. Zhengdong Wang
East China University of Science & Technology
Mail Box 402, 130 Meilong Rd.
Shanghai 200237, China
Tel.: +86 21 6425 2311
Fax: +86 21 6425 3513
E-mail: zdwang@ecust.edu.cn

Important dates

Submission of abstract ------------------------------------------------------ July 15, 2005
Deadline for submission of final paper------------------------------- August 31, 2005
Notification of acceptance of final paper------------------------September 15, 2005
Conference registration------------------------------------------------November 2, 2005

Conference Venue
See second round announcement.

Registration and Accommodation
The conference will be held at Zhengzhou, Henan, China. Registration fee will be 300 USD. The registration fee covers admission to all technical sessions, two refreshment breaks each day of the conference, conference dinner and a copy of the conference proceedings, but not accommodation. Accompanying persons can join for an additional amount of 100 USD, which includes breakfast each day and conference dinner, but excludes lunch and dinner all other days.