The 10th International Conference on Fatigue of Composites

 

The 10th edition of the International Conference on Fatigue of Composites (ICFC10) will be held in Sapporo (Japan) from July 2nd to July 4th, 2025. The event is organized by the Japan Society of Composite Materials.

The series of International Conference on Fatigue of Composites aims to enhance interactions among scientists and engineers both from Academia, Research Institutions and end-use Industries, providing them with a forum for the communications and discussions on the recent exciting accomplishments and future trends in the field of fatigue, damage mechanics and fracture of composite materials.

This edition will continue the series of very successful previous conferences, which were held in Paris (1997), in Williamsburg (2000), in Kyoto (2004), in Kaiserslautern (2007), in Nanjing (2010) and again back in Paris (2015) and Vicenza (2018, 2021, 2023).

 

Conference Aims and Topics
An attractive background programme will be arranged to complement the interesting presentations and discussions. The main conference topics can be summarized as follows:

• Experimental characterization of fatigue response of composites materials, structures and assemblies
• Damage mechanics and fatigue damage mechanisms: quantitative description of the initiation and evolution process
• Damage evolution and property degradation
• Effects of process, manufacturing induced defects, environment, temperature, humidity on the fatigue response of composites
• Variable amplitude, spectrum loading and cumulative damage modelling
• Advanced experimental techniques for damage investigation
• Health monitoring and non-destructive methods for fatigue damage detection and their applications
• Models and procedures for damage evolution assessment, residual properties and life prediction
• Applications and case histories: fatigue and property degradation in complex composite structures.

Together with the topics above, suggestions for other topics as well as for special symposia are warmly welcome and can be forwarded to the Organising Committee.