The ninth biennial International Conference on Fatigue Damage of Structural Materials will be held in scenic Cape Cod at The Resort and Conference Center at Hyannis, Massachusetts from the 16 - 21 September 2012.

This prestigious and long running conference will bring together delegates from around the world to discuss how to characterize, predict and analyse the fatigue damage of structural materials.

This is a significant opportunity for you to join colleagues from around the world to exchange and discuss new ideas and findings and to present your work as a poster or oral presentation.

We welcome poster and abstract submissions on the following topics:
Structural metals and alloys pertinent to the aerospace, marine, off-shore, power generation and land based transportation industries
Novel experimental methods to characterise fatigue damage and crack growth
Overload/underload, arbitrary loading sequences, service spectrum loads, combined HCF/LCF
Residual stress effects on fatigue damage and crack growth, measurement of internal stresses
Extreme environments, including the effects of corrosion, oxidation, abrasion, elevated or cryogenic temperatures
Innovative theoretical approaches, computational and analytical methods
Life prediction methodologies for structural metals and alloys
Fatigue mechanisms in advanced alloys and metallic systems
Micro-structurally short cracks

Contributions relating to ceramics, nano-materials, construction materials (concrete), polymers (including rubber) and composites will not be considered for FDSM IX.