The 29th International Conference of the Italian Fracture Group (IGF29) invites contributions across a broad spectrum of research areas, focusing on the following core topics of interest:
Additive Manufactured Materials
Alloys: Al alloys, Cast irons, Cu alloys, Mg alloys, Ni alloys, Refractory metals, Shape Memory Alloys, Sintered Alloys, Steels, Super alloys, Ti alloys
Analytical, computational and physical Models
Biomaterials
Cement and mortars
Ceramics
Composites
Concrete
Creep
Damage mechanics
Environmentally Assisted Fracture & Hydrogen Embrittlement
Failure Analysis, Case Studies and Forensic Engineering
Fatigue & Fatigue crack growth
Fractography and Advanced Metallography
Fracture and Fatigue at Atomistic and Molecular Scales
Fracture and fatigue testing systems
Fracture under Mixed-Mode and Multiaxial Loading
Fracture vs. Gradient Mechanics
Functionally graded materials
Fundamentals of cohesive zone models
High and Very High Cycle Fatigue
High-entropy materials
History of Fracture Mechanics and Fatigue
Impact and Dynamics
Linear and Nonlinear Fracture Mechanics
Low Cycle Fatigue
Materials mechanical behavior and image analysis
Mesomechanics of Fracture
Micromechanisms of Fracture and Fatigue
Multi-physics and multi-scale modelling of cracking in heterogeneous materials
Multiscale Experiments and Modeling
Nanomaterials
Nondestructive Examination
Physical Aspects of Brittle Fracture
Physical Aspects of Ductile Fracture
Polymers
Probabilistic Fracture Mechanics
Reliability and Life Extension of Components
Repair and retrofitting: modelling and practical application
Rocks
Sandwiches, Joints and Coatings
Smart Materials
Structural Integrity
Thin Films
Wear
Wood