Those interested in organizing a special session are urged to contact the Conference Chairs at giuseppe.pitarresi@unipa.it and pir3@pitt.edu with a concise title and a short description.
Approved sessions will be posted on the website as soon as possible.
SS#01 - Non-Destructive Monitoring of Structural Integrity
Dimitrios Aggelis
Department Mechanics of Materials and Constructions, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium
Dimitrios.aggelis@vub.be
Giuseppe Lacidogna
Department of Structural, Geotechnical and Building Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129, Torino, Italy.
giuseppe.lacidogna@polito.it.
Proper condition evaluation and maintenance are essential for structures in all fields of engineering. In addition, the increase of performance requirements for contemporary materials calls for better control of the structural Integrity. This leads to an urgent necessity to upgrade the capabilities of non-destructive inspection of existing structures aiming at prolonging their safe operational life and increase the safety level and lessen the economic impact of carrying out extensive repairs or new construction. Quantitatively ensuring the integrity of structures is essential for achieving sustainable infrastructure worldwide. In this context, non-destructive testing (NDT) methods can be employed both in situ and under laboratory conditions, where they play a vital role. This session welcomes contributions from all areas of NDT—whether applied on-site or developed in the laboratory—for assessing damage, evaluating repair effectiveness, and characterizing or advancing innovative materials.
SS#02 - Additive Manufacturing of High Integrity Parts
Professor Paul Wood, PhD
Institute of Innovation in Sustainable Engineering, College of Science and Engineering, University of Derby, Derby DE22 1GB, UK
p.wood7@derby.ac.uk
Dr. Urvashi F Gunputh
Institute of Innovation in Sustainable Engineering, College of Science and Engineering, University of Derby, Markeaton St, Derby DE22 3AW
U.Gunputh@derby.ac.uk
The additive manufacturing of metals and their alloys is driven by freedom of design and efficiency in manufacturing. These factors have the greatest impact on healthcare, aviation, construction, and nuclear sectors. There remain, however, barriers to the use of metal and polymer additive manufacturing (AM). Especially understanding the processing effects on the developed microstructures and defects, and how these impact the properties of the parts made using either powder or wire feedstocks. These challenges are especially acute in those industry sectors that are highly regulated and demand consistent high integrity parts.
To accelerate the pace of the wider adoption of AM in regulated industry sectors, this special session invites papers and presentations on topics that tackle the barriers to the use of metals and polymers made by AM. The latest thinking on this topic from research active academics covering for example the pre-processing, processing and post-processing treatments of materials made by AM, and how defects can be mitigated and properties enhanced are especially welcomed.