Dear Colleagues,
The 20th European Conference on Fracture (www.ecf20.no) will be held at Trondheim, in Norway on 30 June - 4 July 2014. We are inviting abstracts in the areas of fracture and fatigue at all scales! The deadline for abstract submission is 4 October, 2013.
An ECF summer school on Fracture Modeling and Assessment will be arranged two days before the conference. The summer school is mainly aimed at PhD students, young scientists and engineers, but is naturally open to everybody. Participants will become acquainted with general aspects, emerging fields and recent practical applications of fracture mechanics.
ECF20 will feature a Young Scientist Session and a panel discussion about how to teach fracture mechanics in the future. The newly established ESIS-Elsevier Young Scientist Award is dedicated to best contributions at ECFs as an encouragement to younger researchers and in support of their careers. The award will include a certificate and 1000 € for first place and 500 € for second place.
Reviewed and accepted conference papers will be published as one dedicated issue in Elsevier's Procedia Materials Sciences and made available in open-access on http://www.journals.elsevier.com/procedia-materials-science/. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions for publication in peer reviewed special issues of "Engineering Fracture Mechanics", "Engineering Failure Analysis" or "International Journal of Fatigue".
ESIS Awards including The Griffith Medal, The Wöhler Medal, The Award of Merit and Honorary Membership welcome nominations for candidates. Deadline for nominations is 30th of December 2013.
Welcome to ECF20 and Trondheim!
Yours sincerely,
Zhiliang Zhang
Professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Chairman of ECF20
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