About the Conference

The 7th international conference on fracture and damage mechanics (FDM08) will take place, Seoul, Korea. The conference follows the success of previous meetings held in London, UK (1999), Milan, Italy (2001), Paderborn, Germany (2003), Mallroca, Spain (2005), Harbin, China (2006) and Madeira, Portugal (2007)
The conference series has the support of the experts in the field of fracture and damage mechanics and has become established as a leading international forum for presentation latest research. The high quality of research presented at the previous meetings are archived in conference proceedings published in book form. In addition special issues in leading journals that is Engineering Fracture Mechanics and Key Engineering Materials have been devoted to the work presented at the meeting. The proceedings one the 6th international conference can be found in Key Engineering Materials Vols 348-349 (2007).

The conference is co-sponsored by Harbin Engineering University

Aims

The aim of the conference is to promote further international co-operation among Scientists and Engineers from different disciplines involved in the study of Fracture and Damage Mechanics.
The overall objective is to produce an integrated approach to problems of Fracture Failure, Fatigue and Safe Design.
The conference will discuss papers on any topics listed below and others related to the objectives of the meeting. The participants are encouraged to review critically existing ideas and to explore new research ideas.

Conference Topics

Fracture Mechanics
Fatigue
Failure Analysis
Corrosion
Creep
Non-linear Problems
Dynamic Fracture
Residual Stress
Environmental Effects
Crack Propagation
Repair Technique
Composite Materials
Ceramics & Polymers
Metallic Materials
Concrete
Probabilistic Apects
Risk Analysis
Damage Tolerance
Fracture Control
Computational Methods
Microstructural & Micromechanical Modelling

Special Symposiums

Surface Treatment organised by Professor Mario Guagliano (mario.guagliano@polimi.it) Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Fatigue assessment of welded structures organised by Professor Luca Susmel (ssl@unife.it) University of Ferrara, Italy
Aim of this symposium is to give researchers engaged in investigating the problem of assessing welded components under fatigue loading the opportunity of meeting up to discuss about the state of the art as well as about the new trends in this particular ambit of the structural integrity discipline. Both original contributions and reviews on the work done in this area over the last few years are welcome.

Deadlines(New!)

Abstracts : 31st January 2008;
Papers : 31st March 2008,
Registration : 31st March 2008.

List of accepted abstracts(Chinese) -

Registration

Chinese authors please registrated with Harbin Engineering University!

Registration form in .doc -

Hotel Booking Form in .doc-

Payment Details:

All payments must be made by RMB, and remarked with paper no. and author's name.

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Sponsor

Harbin Engineering University No.145 Nantong Street, Nangang District Harbin, Heilongjiang Province 150001, P.R.China Homepage: http://www.hrbeu.edu.cn Contact information: Miss ZHAO Yan Foreign Affairs Office Harbin Engineering University Tel: 0086-451-82518267 Fax: 0086-451-82530010 or 0086-451-82518413 email: zhaoyan@hrbeu.edu.cn, zhaoyanheu@gmail.com

Steering Committee

M.H.Aliabadi Imperial College, London
B.Abersek University of Maribor, Slovania
J.Alfaiate Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal
F.G.Buchholz Univ. Paderborn, Germany
S-I.Nishida Saga University, Japan
Qingfen Li Harbin Engineering University, China

Conference Chairmen

Professor Ferri Aliabadi
Department of Aeronautics
Imperial College, London
Prince Consort Road, South Kensington
London, SW7 2BY
M.H.Aliabadi@imperial.ac.uk
Fax: +44 (0) 2380 260334

Dr In–Seok Yoon
Waterproof Repair Rehabilitation Centre
KICM, Korea Institute of Construction Materials
1465-4, Seocho3-dong, Seocho-gu, Seoul, Korea
yisconcrete@uos.ac.kr

Professor Lee, Han Seung
School of Architecture & Architectural Engineering
1271 Sa 1-dong, Sangrok-gu Ansan-si
Kyungki-do, 426-791, Korea
ercleehs@hanyang.ac.kr

International Scientific Committee

B.Abersek University of Maribor, Sloveni
M.M. Abdel Wahab University of Surrey, UK
J.Alfaiate Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal
R.Al-Khoury, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
A.Apicella Alenia, Italy
S.Baragetti Universit degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy
Z.P Bazant, Northwestern University, USA
F.Brennan Cranfield University, UK
M. Boulfiza, Saskatchewan University, Canada
W Brocks GKSS Research Centre, Germany
F-G. Buchholz University of Paderborn, Germany
C.Cali, University of Salerno, Italy
I.Cerny SVUM , Czech Rep
G.Chai Sandvik Materials Tech, Sweden
Chang-Soo Lee, University of Seoul, Korea
G.Dhondt MTU Aero Engines, Germany
M.Doblare University of Zaragoza, Spain
Eun-Kym Kim, Seoul National University of Technology, Korea
T. Eterashvili ?Georgian Technical University, Georgia
P.E.J.Flewitt BNFL Magnox Generation, UK
T.Fujimoto Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan
M.Guagliano Politecnico di Milano, Italy
H. Hadavinia Kingston University, UK
P. Horst IFL, Braunschweig, Germany
J.Hole Fraunhofer-Institut fuer Werkstoffmechanik, Germany
J.Hornikova,, Brno University of Technology, Czech,Republic
Hui WANG, Harbin engineering University, China
A. Ivankovic University College Dublin, Ireland
N.Kawagoishi Kagoshima University, Japan
Ki-Bong Park, Kangwon National University, Korea
M.Kotoul Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
E.A.B..Koenders, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
A.M. Korsunsky, Oxford University, UK
M.S.Kumosa University of Denver, USA
M.Kuna Technische Universit?¤t Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany
C. Leung, HKUST, Hong Kong
D. Leguillon CNRS, France
Li Li Harbin Engineering University, China
Q. F. Li, Harbin Engineering University, China
Y.Liu The University of Western Australia, Australia
K.Nikbin Imperial College London, UK
L.Nobile University of Bologna, Italy
T.Nykanen Lappeenranta University of Technology , Finland
C. Pappalettere Politecnico di Bari, Italy
C. Park Kangwon National University, Korea
J.Pastor ESIGEC, University of Savoie, France
R.Piat Univeristy of Karlsruhe, Germany
J.Planas Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
R.Rikards Riga Technical University, Latvia
A.Saimoto Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan
G.Savaidis National Technical University of Athens, Greece
E. Schlangen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands;
L.J. Sluys, Delft University, The Netherlands
A.Soprano Second University of Napales, Italy
R.Souchet Ecole Nationale Superieure de Mecanique et d'Aerotechnique, France
L.Susmel University of Ferrara, Italy
H.Takuda Kyoto University, Japan
D.Taylor Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
V.Tvergaard DTU, Denmark
H.Theilig Univ. Appl. Sci. Zittau/Gorliz, Germany
J.Toribio University of Salamanca, Spain
E.Viola University of Bologna, Italy
Z. Q. Wang, Harbin Engineering University, China
S. Y. Yan, Harbin Engineering University, China
Young-Soo Yoon, Korea University
Yufeng Zheng Harbin Engineering University, China
Ch.Zhang Univ. Appl. Sci. Zittau, Germany
S. F. Zhu, Harbin Engineering University, China