Metals

Dr. Costanzo Bellini

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Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, 03043 Cassino, FR, Italy
Interests: mechanical behaviour of fibre metal laminates; damage assessment of additively manufactured metals; experimental characterization; finite element simulation

Prof. Dr. Denis Benasciutti

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Department of Engineering, University of Ferrara, via Saragat 1, 44122 Ferrara, Italy
Interests: structural integrity assessment; vibration fatigue; multiaxial fatigue; metal plasticity; finite element analysis
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Prof. Dr. Filippo Berto

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Department of Chemical Engineering, Materials and Environment, Sapienza University of Rome, 00184 Rome, Italy
Interests: fatigue and fracture behavior of materials; mechanical characterization; structural integrity of conventional and innovative materials
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Prof. Dr. Nicola Bonora

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Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, 03043 Cassino, Italy
Interests: modeling materials behavior under extreme conditions (high strain rates, elevated temperature, pressure, large strain); fracture mechanics and damage mechanics; creep; experimental characterization; finite element simulation and computational mechanics; characterization and damage assessment of additively manufactured materials (metals and alloys)
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Prof. Dr. Francesca Borgioli

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Department of Industrial Engineering (DIEF), Università di Firenze, via di S. Marta 3, 50139 Firenze, Italy
Interests: surface modification of metals and alloys; low-temperature nitriding of stainless steels; oxynitriding of titanium alloys; material characterization
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Dr. Ricardo Branco

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Coimbra, 3030-788 Coimbra, Portugal
Interests: structural integrity; fatigue; fracture mechanics; finite element method; fiber-reinforced composites; environmental effects; additive manufacturing
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Prof. Dr. Vincenzo Crupi

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Department of Engineering, University of Messina, 98166 Messina, Italy
Interests: light-weight structures and green materials in shipbuilding; innovative methods for fatigue prediction
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Prof. Dr. Frank Ernst

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Department of Materials Science and Engineering, 414 White Building, Case Western Reserve University 10900, Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106-7204, USA
Interests: transmission electron microscopy – applications and methodology; grain boundaries and interphase interfaces; surface engineering of alloys; phase transformations; micromechanisms of plastic deformation

Prof. Dr. Kewei Gao

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Department of Materials Physics and Chemistry, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100081, China
Interests: evaluation of service behavior of materials, including research on fracture and environmental fracture behavior and mechanism of new structural materials, research on corrosion behavior and corrosion; Material surface modification and characterization, including the use of physical vapor deposition methods to prepare functional films, chemical deposition methods for surface modification, etc.

Prof. Dr. Elisabetta Gariboldi

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy
Interests: high temperature mechanical behavior; creep; high temperature microstructural stability; aluminum alloys
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Prof. Dr. Tarun Goswami

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Department of Biomedical, Industrial and Human Factors Engineering, Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation, Wright State University, 3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy, Dayton, OH 45435, USA
Interests: application of biomaterials; biomechanics; wear and fatigue related research in medical devices; mathematical modeling
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Prof. Dr. Sheng Guo

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Department of Industrial and Materials Science, Chalmers University of Technology, 412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden
Interests: high entropy alloys; structural materials; metastable materials; mechanical behaviour

Prof. Dr. Hannu Hänninen

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Aalto University School of Engineering, Otakaari 4, 02150 Espoo, Finland
Interests: metals; corrosion; fracture; hydrogen; nuclear materials; high-strength steels

Prof. Dr. Peng Hao

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Department of Engineering Mechanics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116034, China
Interests: structural and multidisciplinary optimization; reliability analysis and design optimization; buckling, collapse and failure analysis; composite structures; data-driven computational mechanics; applications in aerospace and aircraft structures
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Prof. Dr. Francesco Iacoviello

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Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Universita di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, 03043 Cassino, Italy
Interests: fatigue crack propagation micromechanisms of stainless steels, ductile cast irons, Al and Ti alloys; hydrogen embrittlement of stainless steels
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Prof. Dr. Dongyang Li

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Department of Chemical and materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Interests: material design; surfaces & interfaces; wear and corrosion; computational materials science
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Dr. Jizi Liu

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Nano and Heterogeneous Materials Center, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
Interests: metals and alloys; microstructure; mechanical property; defects; TEM; APT; EBSD
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Prof. Dr. Luis Miguel Llanes Pitarch

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1. CIEFMA-Departament de Ciència dels Materials i Enginyeria Metal.lúrgica, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, EEBE—Campus Diagonal Besòs, 08019 Barcelona, Spain
2. Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 08019 Barcelona, Spain
Interests: hard materials; fracture; fatigue; toughness; damage tolerance; surface integrity; hard coatings; surface modification; micomechanics; mechanical contact response

Prof. Dr. Jose Miguel Molina Jordá

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Instituto Universitario de Materiales de Alicante, Departamento de Química Inorgánica, Universidad de Alicante, Ap. 99, E-03080 Alicante, Spain
Interests: metal foams; liquid metal infiltration; capillarity at high temperatures; thermal conductivity; metal matrix composites
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Dr. Elide Nastri

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Department of Civil Engineering, University of Salerno, 84084 Fisciano, SA, Italy
Interests: finite elements methods; steel structures; concrete structures; performance-based design; seismic assessment; numerical methods; masonry structures; seismic design
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Dr. Steffen Neumeier

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Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Institute I: General Materials Properties, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Martensstr. 5, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
Interests: superalloys; high temperature materials; intermetallics; mechanical properties
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Dr. Daniela Pilone

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DICMA, Sapienza Università di Roma, via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Roma, Italy
Interests: failure analysis; metallurgy; intermetallics; material; mechanical behaviour; additive manufacturing
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Prof. Dr. Umberto Prisco

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Department of Chemical, Materials and Production Engineering, University of Napoli Federico II, Piazzale Tecchio, 80, 80125 Napoli, Italy
Interests: mechanical properties; mechanical testing; metal forming; plasticity; processing of materials; additive manufacturing; metal cutting
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Prof. Dr. Raffaele Sepe

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Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Salerno, Via Giovanni Paolo II, 132, Fisciano, Italy
Interests: residual stresses in welding joint; fatigue and fracture behavior of material; finite element method; mechanical characterization; thermo-mechanical analysis
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Dr. Bo Song

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School of Materials and Energy, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
Interests: magnesium alloys; texture; deformation mechanism; mechanical properties; twinning behavior; gradient microstructure; precipitation behavior
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Prof. Dr. Stefano Spigarelli

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Department of Industrial Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, Marche Polytechnic University, Via Brecce Bianche, I-60131 Ancona, Italy
Interests: creep; high-temperature deformation and hot working; steels; light alloys; metal matrix composites
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Prof. Dr. Boris B. Straumal

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Institute of Solid State Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ac. Ossipyan str. 2, 142432 Chernogolovka, Russia
Interests: severe plastic deformation; phase transformations; grain boundaries; phase diagrams

Prof. Dr. Tomasz Tański

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Department of Engineering Materials and Biomaterials, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Silesian University of Technology, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland
Interests: nanotechnology; thin layers; material properties; structure; heat; surface; plastic treatment
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Dr. Anja Weidner

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Institute of Materials Enginnering, Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Gustav-Zeuner-Str. 5, 09599 Freiberg, Germany
Interests: microstructure; in situ experiments; fatigue; digital image correlation; acoustic emission

Prof. Dr. Sujun Wu

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School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
Interests: fatigue; fracture; fracture mechanics; failure analysis; embrittlement; structural integrity assessment; damage tolerance; metals, alloys and welds; composites; biomaterials

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