IRF2020 is the biennial
conference on Integrity | Reliability | Failure
IRF2020 is the seventh international gathering of a prestigious series of conferences coordinated by the International Scientific Committee on Mechanics and Materials in Design. This series of conferences started in 1999 and they are wholly devoted to advances in mechanics, materials, structural integrity and design. These meetings resulted from the belief that of those disciplines associated with advanced product design and manufacture, engineering mechanics, materials engineering, maintenance and thermo-fluid mechanics have made the most significant advance in recent years.
Important and dramatic improvements in systems and component design can be made by the use of the latest advances in Integrity, Reliability and Failure of energy systems, structures and materials. Contributions in the fields of Nanotechnologies, Nanomaterials, Biomechanics and Experimental and Computational Mechanics applied to mechanical, aeronautical, space, civil, automotive, biomedical, environmental, and nuclear engineering will be welcome.
IRF2020 is planned for
June 14-18
September 06-10,
2020 in Funchal (Madeira/Portugal), and it is sponsored by the
University of Porto and the University of Toronto (Canada). Topics of
Interest, which are not limited to, include: Fatigue and Fracture
Mechanics of Solids, Fracture and Damage of Composite Materials,
Computational Mechanics in Failure Analysis, Experimental Mechanics in
Failure Analysis and Diagnostics, Atomistic Fracture Nanomechanics,
Dynamic Fracture Mechanics, Scatter and Dispersion in Cracked Solids,
Fracture Mechanics of Soft Matters, Fracture and Fatigue in Implants,
Damage of Multifunctional Materials, Residual Stresses and Fatigue
Failure, Surface Treatments to Prevent Fatigue, Failure Thermal Barrier
Coatings, Non-classical Failure Analysis, Non-local theories in Fracture
and Fatigue, Buckling and Instability, Crashworthiness, Plastic Collapse
and Shock Absorption, Failure Diagnostics and Prevention, Design Against
Failure/Fracture, Fracture Mechanics of Reinforced Concrete/Rocks, Aging
of Polymers, Failure of Pressure Vessels, Corrosion Fatigue, Friction
and Wear, Creep and Creep Rupture, Statistical Life Prediction,
Environmentally Assisted Cracking, Civil Engineering Applications
and Energy and Thermo-Fluid Systems, Case Studies.
The conference will also include an Open Forum on "Overcoming Unethical Publishing Practices", where an expert panel with over 100 years of collective and active research and education experience will address the obligations of publishers and authors with ethical practices in publishing their work. For further details about this Forum, please follow the link below:
Open Forum on Unethical Publishing Practices
IRF2020 - 7th International Conference on Integrity - Reliability - Failure
Funchal/Portugal, 06-10 September 2020