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The 6th Summer School on Fracture Mechanics took place from 13th September to 15th September 2019 in Cracow, Poland. The School was held at the AGH University of Science and Technology campus at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics.
The organizers of the School were European Structural Integrity Society, Kielce University of Technology and Polish Group of Fracture Mechanics.
The organizing committee was composed of three persons from Poland:
Prof. Jaroslaw Galkiewicz – chairman;
Prof. Tomasz Machniewicz – representative of the AGH University of Science and Technology;
Urszula Janus-Galkiewicz – secretary.
The Summer School provided an opportunity for students, researchers and engineers from university and industry to get acquainted with fundamental aspects of fracture mechanics, recent trends in practical applications of fatigue and fracture models, and advanced approaches such as multiscale materials modelling.
40 students took part in the School. They come from 14 countries. Together with the lecturers it gives 44 persons. The School can be called pan-European since we have representatives of 16 European countries: from Portugal on the West to Russia on the East; from Italy on the South to Norway on the North.
On ECF 23 in Serbia four top-level scientist, and members of ESIS, agreed to join the school as the lecturers. They were Prof. Jacques Besson (France), Prof. Meinhard Kuna (Germany), Prof. Andrzej Neimitz (Poland), Prof. Zhiliang Zhang (Norway). Each of them presented proposed subject in single 3 hours long block. They were as follows: Prof. Andrzej Neimitz, Kielce University of Technology entitled Fundamentals of linear elastic and elastic-plastic fracture mechanics; Prof. Zhiliang Zhang, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Constraints effect in fracture; Prof. Jacques Besson, Mines ParisTech, Local approach to fracture for ductile failure; Prof. Meinhard Kuna, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Numerical methods in fracture mechanics.
On Sunday after the lectures students had an opportunity to see another lecture, this time on history of Poland and the world since they were taken to visit Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau Former German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp.
Participants from Ukraine handed over Organizers of the School some copies of the book Panasyuk V., Kaspszak W. Summer Schools on Fracture Mechanics. – Lviv: Prostir-M Publishing House, 2017 – 186 p. Overview of the activity the Polish-Ukrainian-German Summer Schools on Fracture Mechanics during 1995–2015 years was transformed in 2015 to ESIS Summer Schools.
After the School each participant received Certificate of Attendance. http://summerschool2019.tu.kielce.pl/
Petro Yasniy
Jaroslaw Galkiewicz
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