Metals

Prof. Dr. Evangelos Hristoforou

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School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 15780 Athens, Greece
Interests: sensors; magnetic materials; biotechnology; structure and properties of materials; steel health monitoring
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Prof. Dr. Sean R. Agnew

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Department of Materials Science, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, WV, USA
Interests: magnesium alloy processing–structure–property relationships; low symmetry metal deformation; plasticity; in-situ neutron diffraction
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Dr. Paul G. Allison

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering and Computer Science, Baylor University, Waco, TX 76798, USA
Interests: dynamic behavior; fatigue; finite element analysis; metallic materials; microstructure; mechanical behavior; solid mechanics; thermo-mechanical processing

Dr. José Alexander Araújo

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Brasília, Brasilia, Brazil
Interests: fretting fatigue; fatigue of conductors; multiaxial fatigue; fracture mechanics

Prof. Dr. Fumihiro Ashida

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Department of Mechanical, Electrical, and Electronic Engineering, Interdisciplinary Faculty of Science and Engineering, Shimane University, 1060 Nishikawatsu-cho, Matsue, Shimane 690-8504, Japan
Interests: solid mechanics; elasticity; thermoelasticity; stress analysis; elastic wave propagation; anisotropic materials; piezoelectric materials; functionally graded materials

Prof. Dr. Helmi Attia

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National Research Council Canada (NRC), Aerospace Manufacturing Technology Centre/ Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, 817 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, Monyreal, QC H3A 0C3, Canada
Interests: fretting wear; fretting fatigue; friction; contact mechanics; fracture-mechanics-based modelling of fretting; thermal aspect of tribological systems; design of tribometers for simulative fretting wear testing; standardization of test methods and equipment
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Prof. Dr. Martin Bache

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Institute of Structural Materials, Swansea University, Swansea, SA1 8EN, UK
Interests: fatigue and fracture of structural metals; ceramics and associated composites
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Dr. Ruslan R. Balokhonov

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Institute of Strength Physics and Materials Science, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk 634055, Russia
Interests: mesomechanic; microstructure-based numerical simulation; metal-matrix composites; polycrystalline materials; strain localization; fracture; dynamic deformation; shock waves

Prof. Dr. Janice Barton

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Professor of Experimental Mechanics, Bristol Composites Institute (ACCIS), Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Civil, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Bristol, Queen's Building, Bristol, BS8 1TR, UK
Interests: non-destructive evaluation; Infra-red techniques for materials assessment; fatigue and damage assessment; residual stress assessment

Prof. Dr. Cemal Basaran

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Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University at Buffalo, Amherst, NY, USA
Interests: failure and reliability analysis; material and interface modeling; nonlinear finite element analysis; damage mechanics; thermodynamics; entropy; unified mechanics

Prof. Dr. Tilmann Beck

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Institute of Materials Science and Engineering, TU Kaiserslautern, 67763 Kaiserslautern, Germany
Interests: fatigue of metallic materials; thermomechanical fatigue; fatigue life assessment; steels; Ni-base allys; Al-base alloys
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Prof. Dr. Matteo Benedetti

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Department of Industrial Engineering, Università degli Studi di Trento, Trento, Italy
Interests: printing; metal additive manufacturing; fatigue; finite element analysis; fracture mechanics; industrial engineering; materials; mechanical design; mechanical properties; residual stress; shot peening; structural integrity assessment; surface modification
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Prof. Dr. Stefano Beretta

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Via La Masa 1, 20156 Milan, Italy
Interests: fatigue; integrity assessment; defects; additive manufacturing; mechanical components; railway components

Prof. Dr. Jean-Yves Buffière

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MATEIS Laboratory, INSA Lyon, 69100 Villeurbanne, France
Interests: characterization of internal fatigue cracks; synchrotron X-ray tomography; in situ experiments
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Prof. Dr. Ezio Cadoni

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DynaMat SUPSI Laboratory, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, 6850 Mendrisio, Switzerland
Interests: high strain-rate; impact; experimental mechanics; crash worthiness; protection; concrete; UHPC; metals; composite; split Hopkinson bar technologies
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Prof. Dr. Alberto Campagnolo

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Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, 35131 Padova, Italy
Interests: fracture mechanics; fatigue experimental testing; fatigue and fracture analysis; fatigue crack growth; crack paths; fatigue crack growth rate
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Prof. Dr. Jianghua Chen

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High-Resolution Electron Microscopy Group, Materials Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
Interests: microstructure characterization; phase transformation; electron microscopy; aluminum alloys; precipitation strengthening; thermal and mechanic processes

Prof. Dr. Shi-Hoon Choi

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Department of Advanced Components and Materials Engineering, Sunchon National University, Suncheon 57922, Republic of Korea
Interests: deformation and failure; texture; anisotropy; formability FEM; polycrystal model; EBSD; TKD; XRD; neutron diffraction in/ex-situ experiment; steel; aluminum alloys; Mg alloys; copper alloys

Prof. Dr. Manuel José Moreira de Freitas

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1. IDMEC, Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica, Instituto Superior Técnico, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal
2. Atlântica, Instituto Universitário, Fábrica da Pólvora de Barcarena, 2730-036 Barcarena, Portugal
Interests: fatigue; multiaxial fatigue; very high cycle fatigue; mixed-mode fracture; mechanical design
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Dr. Véronique Doquet

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CNRS, Laboratoire de Mécanique des Solides, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, CEDEX, 91128 Palaiseau, France
Interests: plastic flow mechanisms; multiaxial fatigue; mixed-mode fatigue crack growth; severe plastic deformation; ductile fracture; mechanical twinning; grain boundary sliding; ultrafine grained metals; micromechanical modelling
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Dr. Gabriella Epasto

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Department of Engineering, University of Messina, 98166 Messina, Italy
Interests: lightweight structures; aluminium foam sandwich; aluminium honeycomb sandwich; microlattice structures; computed tomography; non-destructive evaluation

Prof. Dr. Victorino Franco

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Department of Condensed Matter Physics, University of Seville, 41080 Seville, Spain
Interests: magnetic materials for energy applications; soft magnetic materials; thermomagnetic phase transitions; caloric effects
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Dr. Asit Kumar Gain

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Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
Interests: manufacturing nanocomposite materials; manufacturing green electronic packaging materials and their reliability; electronic product reliability and electronic packaging; failure analysis and reliability engineering; manufacturing pore-gradient scaffold materials for bioimplants; manufacturing defect-free polymeric microlens arrays for optical applications
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Prof. Dr. Mario Guagliano

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Via La Masa 1, 20156 Milano, Italy
Interests: surface modification techniques aimed at obtaining superior properties; the development of experimental and numerical methodologies for determining the fracture and damage parameters; the application of the acoustic emission technique for damage assessment and monitoring of composite materials
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Prof. Dr. Karl Theodore Hartwig

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Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University College of Engineering, College Station, TX 77840, USA
Interests: severe plastic deformation processing; ECAE; thermal mechanical processing; refractory metals; electrical conductors; cryogenic materials; applied superconductivity

Prof. Dr. Martin Heilmaier

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Materials Science & Engineering, Metallic Materials, Institute for Applied Materials (IAM), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
Interests: high temperature alloys; intermetallics; high entropy alloys; strengthening mechanisms; creep; directional solidification; powder metallurgy
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Prof. Dr. Gilbert Henaff

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Laboratoire de Mécanique et de Physique des Matériaux, UMR CNRS No.6617, ENSMA, 86961 Futuroscope Chasseneuil, France
Interests: fatigue resistance of structural alloys; fatigue crack propagation; corrosion fatigue; creep-fatigue; intermetallics; hydrogen embrittlement
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Dr. Heinz Werner Höppel

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Department of Materials Science and Engineering Institute I, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Martensstrasse 5, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
Interests: fatigue mechanisms of metallic materials; mechanical properties and their correlation to microstructure; in-situ deformation; nano-crystalline /ultrafine grained materials; light metals
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Prof. Dr. Hamid Jahed

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Director of Fatigue & Stress Analysis Laboratory, Department of Mechanical & Mechatronics Engineering, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave West, Waterloo, Ontario N2L3G1, Canada
Interests: multi-axial fatigue; fatigue of magnesium alloys; cyclic plasticity; cold spray coating
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Prof. Dr. Anders E. W. Jarfors

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Department of Materials and Manufacturing, School of Engineering, Jönköping University, 55111 Jönköping, Sweden
Interests: casting; aluminium; magnesium; heat treatment; mechanical behavior; fatigue; process microstructure performance; additive manufacturing
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