dedicated to James R.Rice

BECCSI_SL_ A. Sedmak_abstract.pdf

Biography: Aleksandar Sedmak is Professor emeritus, at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia. He was a visiting professor at Drexel Univeristy, USA, in period 1999-2002. He has been teaching since 1979 at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Belgrade, mainly Engineering Materials, Welding, Numerical Methods, Fracture Mechanics, Structural Integrity. Advisor for 60 D.Sc. thesis, mostly related to Welding. He was coordinator for 10 national projects and 12 international projects in the scope of EUREKA, bilateral, H2020, FP7, COSME and Interreg programs. He is the President of Serbian Structural Integrity and Life Society and Editor-in-chief of Structural Integrity and Life Journal (Scopus, eSCI), and the President of European Structural Integrity Society (ESIS), member of editor boards and reviewer of a number of prominent world journals in Fracture Mechanics, and the Chairman of European Conference on Fracture (ECF22), Belgrade, 2018. He has been the guest editor of special issues of Engineering Failure Analysis, Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics and International Journal of Fatigue. Prof. Sedmak is longstanding member of prominent societies, such as AWS and ASME, also honorary professor at Brasov University, Romania, since 2016 and foreign member of Hungarian Academy of Engineering Sciences since 2017, also member of Serbian Academy of Engineering Sciences since 2012.

dedicated to Marko Rakin

BECCSI_SL Zhiliang_Zhang_abstract.pdf

Biography: Biography: Before being appointed as a full Professor of Mechanics and Materials at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in 2003, he worked at the largest independent research organization in Scandinavia, SINTEF, in Trondheim, Norway, for 9 years. He played a central role in building up the competence of the Fracture Mechanics Group to an international level. Professor Zhang was a visiting scientist at Harvard University from 2000 to 2001, a Changjiang Visiting Chair Professor at the University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB) in 2010, a JSPS Fellow at Kyoto University in 2011, and a visiting scholar at the California Institute of Technology from 2017 to 2018 and at Kyushu University from 2024 to 2025. He has supervised and co-supervised over 60 PhD and postdoctoral candidates at NTNU. In 2006, Professor Zhang founded the NTNU Nanomechanical Lab. He was elected by the Council of the European Structural Integrity Society (ESIS) as chairman to organize the 20th European Conference on Fracture (ECF20) in 2014. He is an elected member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences and an ESIS Fellow. At NTNU, Professor Zhang has led 14 externally funded projects, with a total budget exceeding 12 million euros. He has published his work as the corresponding author in top-tier journals, including Chemical Reviews, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Science, Materials Horizons, Nano Letters, Nature Communications, Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), Acta Materialia, and Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids (JMPS). He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Engineering Fracture Mechanics. In August 2024, Professor Zhang was awarded the prestigious Griffith Medal for his outstanding contributions to the field of fracture mechanics. 

BECCSI_SL_ Zhengfang_Qian _abstract.pdf 

Biography: Zhengfang Qian is Chair Professor at Wuhan Institute of Technology and Shenzhen University, China. Heobtained his master degree from Nanjing Tech University with specialty in Chemical Engineering Machinery in 1985 and Ph.D.degree from Chongqing University with specialty in Solid Mechanics in 1991. He then worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences from 1991 to 1993. From 1993 to 1994, he conducted research on metal forming and dislocation patterning as a Visiting Scholar at Michigan State University and the University of Iowa in the United States. From 1995 to 1996, he joined the University of Maryland in the United States as an Associate Researcher, engaged in research on nanomaterials, nanostructures, and woven composites. From 1997 to 1999, he worked as Research Scientist at Wayne State University in the United States, conducting reliability engineering research on semiconductor devices and stamping processes. Since 2000, he has been serving as Principal Engineer at Motorola Laboratories in the United States, responsible for the reliability engineering of mobile phones and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) devices. Since 2015, he has been a Chair Professor and Doctoral Supervisor in China

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