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International Congress on Fracture

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Type
  
Public

Founder
  
T. Yokobori

Founded
  
1965 (1965)

Area served
  
Worldwide

International Congress on Fracture

Key people
  
A. Carpinteri (President) S. W. Yu (Senior Vice President ) D. Taplin (Treasurer/CEO)

Services
  
Materials science, Knowledge transfer

International Congress on Fracture (ICF) is the premier international body for promotion of worldwide cooperation among scientists and engineers concerned with the mechanics and mechanisms of fracture, fatigue and strength of solids.

Contents

History

The idea for an International Congress on Fracture dates to 1961 and a meeting at MIT when an “Interim International Conference Committee” was established under the Chairmanship of Takeo Yokobori. ICF1 was then organised in Sendai, Japan in November 1965 and it was at ICF2 in Brighton, England that ICF was formally founded in April 1969 with Statutes and Bye-Laws, a Council and Executive. Thereafter ICF organised a major conference every four years. . ICF also organised “interquadrennial” conferences, the first of which was in Beijing, China in November 1983. ICF steadily established national organisations in their member nations one of the first being the “Australasian Fracture Group” founded in 1971 and ICF became much more than simply a conference organiser and in fact a global society for the broad field of structural integrity, fracture, fatigue, creep, corrosion and reliability – from biological to geophysical materials: metals, alloys, ceramics, composites, electronic and natural materials. The scope steadily evolved through ICF1-1CF12 from nano to macro scales, from basic science, engineering and mathematics to practical technology and systems modelling for safe design. At an ICF Interquadrennial Conference in Anaheim, USA May 2011 ICF was renamed “ICF: The World Academy of Structural Integrity”.

Structure

ICF-WASI is governed by a Council which comprises Council Members from each member nation with one nation one vote. The Council meets once every four years at each ICF-WASI Quadrennial. Council delegates the management of ICF-WASI to a President and an Executive Committee. Since ICF6 the Treasurer has acted as the de facto CEO working closely with the President and Secretary-General. Council elects Fellows every four years who are now termed “Academicians” (50). ICF-WASI in its widest sense consists also of the “Associates” who comprise the whole community of delegates who have attended Quadrennial and Interquadrennial conferences, as many as 10.000 in an inclusive and democratic structure.

Past meetings

ICF-1 Sendi (Japan) 1965

ICF-2 Brighton (UK) 1969

ICF-3 Munich (Germany) 1973

ICF-4 Waterloo (Canada) 1977

ICF-5 Cannes (France) 1981

ICF-6 New Delhi (India) 1984

ICF-7 Houston (USA) 1989

ICF-8 Kiev (Ukraine) 1993

ICF-9 Sydney (Australia) 1997

ICF-10 Honolulu (USA) 2001

ICF-11 Turin (Italy) 2005

ICF-12 Ottawa (Canada) 2009

ICF-13 Beijing (China) 2013

The next Conference (ICF-14) will be in Rhodes (Greece) in 2017, followed by ICF-15 in Vancouver in 2021.

References

International Congress on Fracture Wikipedia