TC01 Udate 2008

The Seventh International ASTM/ESIS Symposium on Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics (36th ASTM National Symposium on Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics) Sponsored by Committee E08 and ESIS was held on November 14-16, 2007 in Tampa, Florida, The conference organisers and chairmen were Rick Neu, Steve Thompson representing ASTM and Kim Wallin representing ESIS. In all, the conference was attended by 108 participants, with 26 from Europe. The papers will be published in a special STP and also as part of the ASTM JAI journal.

Subcommittee on Fracture Mechanics Testing Standard

The new version ESIS P3 of the unified test method (successor of ESIS P2) has been ready for quite a while.