Contributions are accepted but not limited to the following topics:
- Cyclic plasticity and internal structure
- Ultra-low, low-, high- and giga-cycle fatigue
- Mechanisms of fatigue Damage
- Fatigue thresholds
- Short and long crack growth
- Fatigue life prediction
- Fatigue behaviour modelling and simulation
- Creep fatigue interactions
- Probabilistic fatigue and fracture
- Failure analysis and case studies
- Fatigue life extension
- Damage evaluation and fatigue design
- Variable amplitude loading
- Thermal fatigue
- Multiaxial fatigue
- Fatigue in biomaterials
- High temperature fatigue
- Fatigue-corrosion
- Environmental assisted fatigue
- Influence of manufacturing processes on fatigue behaviour
- Structural integrity assessments accounting for fatigue
- Applications and design codes (e.g. pressure vessels, metallic bridges, wind towers, offshore structures, etc.)
- Physical models of layered structures
- Numerical analysis of the layered structures behaviour
- Experimental testing of composites and layered structures
- Optimisation issues and sensitivity analysis
- Reliability of polymer composites and hybrid metal-composite structures
- Applications of composites in engineering structures