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FRACTURE MECHANICS 2008 Symposium of Evaluation, Inspection and Monitoring of Structural Integrity
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Second Round Announcement
Zhejiang University of Technology,
Hangzhou, China
October 31 - November 3, 2008Aim and Scope of Symposium
The sixth annual meeting of the Fracture Mechanics series (FM2008) has been planned to be held at Zhejiang University of Technology during October to November of 2008. This series started in 2003 and was organized by a consortium of academic and industrial institutions. They include the East China University of Science and Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Nanjing University of Technology, Zhejiang University, Zhengzhou University and Changsha University of Science and Technology in addition to National Engineering Research Center of Pressure Vessels and Pipelines Safety Technology (General Machinery Research Institute).
In the past symposia, emphasis has been laid mainly on the theoretical basis of structural integrity. It is now an accepted realization that the conventional approach to evaluating structural integrity – rule-of-thumb guidelines, with excessive safety margins – no longer makes sense in today’s highly competitive business climate. The trend of integration of inspection, monitoring techniques and assessment approaches has been facilitated in recent years. The ability to monitor minute changes in plant or infrastructure condition with a high degree of confidence has led to continuous advances in structural integrity technology and risk based assessment.
Besides the strength and fracture theory of materials, the assessment of structural integrity may involve condition monitoring, intelligent computing, life cycle analysis, non-destructive evaluation, probabilistic methods for both scales of materials and structures. Structural integrity covers a wide range of industrial sectors and draws on many disciplines across the materials and engineering fields; it is an essential component of design and manufacture, as well as the subsequent life of the product. The multi- and inter- disciplinary nature of the structural integrity should thus be emphasized. It is thus hoped that FM2008 will integrate new developments from diverse areas of science and technology in relation to structural integrity. Besides the integration of theory and practice, science and technology, we wish to integrate more people of multidisciplinary background.Symposium Topics
With an appropriate size of the participants, emphases will be placed on Evaluation, Inspection and Monitoring of Structural Safety. Contributions are welcome in the following areas:
? Failure assessment theory to include multiscale damage and multiple damage mechanisms (e.g. thermal, corrosion, irradiation, cyclic loading effects).
? Testing of metallic and non-metallic materials ranging from room to high temperature.
? Multiscale modeling of physical system, atomistic simulation models and applications.
? Determination of thermal-mechanical and/or chemo-mechanical coupling effects qualified in terms of the constitutive constants.
? Correlation between a measured physical/derived parameter and quantitative information on defects/stresses/microstructures.
? Real time structured integrity assessment
? Sensor technology: Low cost multifunctional sensors, Wireless sensors, Mobile robotic sensors, Mobile AE sensors, Self powered sensors
? Long term performance and reliability of sensor systems and instrumentation
? Smart materials and self diagnostic structures
? Uncertainty models for large system, which include environment, loads and materials/structure.Topics not covered above but fall within the general scope of this symposium are also welcome. Abstracts and full papers should be written in English. Early submission of full papers is advisable in order to get the full benefit of editorial assistance.
Conference Organizers
Executive Chairman
Prof. Zengliang Gao, Zhejiang University of Technology, ChinaSymposium Series Chairman
Prof. Shan-Tung Tu, East China University of Science and Technology, ChinaChairman of International Steering Committee
Prof. G.C. Sih, Lehigh University, USATechnical Papers
The official language of the conference is English. All papers should be written and presented in English. Accepted papers will be collected in the FM2008 proceedings which will be published by the East China University of Science and Technology Press before the symposium (All abstracts were indexed in ISTP in the previous symposia). Those who wish to have their full papers reviewed and published in the journal of Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics (SCI and EI indexed), please send a copy simultaneously to Prof. Sih through E-mail (gcs@ecust.edu.cn).
Full papers (not over 6 pages or 8-10 pages for keynote and session lectures) should be submitted to Prof. Zhengdong Wang through E-mail (zdwang@ecust.edu.cn).Important dates
Deadline for submission of final paper--------------------------------August 15, 2008
Notification of acceptance of final paper--------------------------September 15, 2008
Conference registration-------------------------------------------------October 31, 2008Website: http://chemech.ecust.edu.cn/FM2008/
Registration and Accommodation
Registration fee will be 400 USD. The registration fee covers admission to all technical sessions, two refreshment breaks each day of the conference, banquet, conference dinners and a copy of the conference proceedings, but not accommodation. Students are welcome with a reduced registration fee of 300 USD. Accompanying persons can join for an additional amount of 100 USD, which includes ladies’ program, banquet and conference dinners.
Contact Information
All inquires with reference to the Symposium for Fracture Mechanics 2008 should be addressed to
Prof. Zengliang Gao
College of Mechanical Engineering
Zhejiang University of Technology
Hangzhou 310014, China
Mobile: 13958011192
E-mail: zlgao@zjut.edu.cn