Newsletter #67-2021 15 (3.1) In 2021, the Robert Moskovic Award was attributed to the following researchers in recognition of their outstanding contributions: - Prof. Filippo Berto, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway, for contributions in the Local Approaches for Fracture and Fatigue Assessment field; - Prof. Milan Veljkovic, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, for contributions in the Integrity of Steel Structures field; and, - Prof. Maria Feng, Columbia University, USA, for contributions in the Safety and Sustainability of Civil Infrastructure Systems field. Aleksandar Sedmak José António Correia Vladimir Moskvichev TC14: Integrity of Biomedical and Biological Materials ESIS TC14 activities 1. Special issue “Damage and Fracture of Biomedical Materials” of the Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials by Elsevier was published (see here) with Prof. Silberschmidt as its Guest Editor. It contains 24 papers covering various aspects of the topic. The papers deal with different problems of characterisation, testing and modelling of different biological and biomedical materials. Here are some examples of the themes of the published research: - Measurement of viscoelastic properties of muscle and tendon with optical coherence tomography; - Viscoelastic properties and microstructure of bovine superficial digital flexor tendon; - Rate-dependent failure of brain tissue; - Numerical analysis of fracture in subjectspecific human femur; - Mechanism- and microstructure-based concepts for prediction of skull fracture; - Three-dimensional surface strain analyses of spine segments; - Remodelling of trabecular bone in human distal tibia based on in-vivo HR-pQCT; - Fatigue failure of anterior teeth; - Mechanical properties, and fibrous structure of bioprosthetic heart valve leaflets under cyclic loading; - Advanced PMMA-based bone cement for implant fixation; - Stress states in coating-substrate dental systems; - Mechanical and fracture behaviour of dental resin; - Mechanical properties of thin Ti–6Al–4V struts manufactured with laser powder bed fusion; - Damage in extrusion additive manufacture biopolymers; - Corrosion of ALD TiO2 and ZrO2 coated magnesium alloys. The issue also included a selection of papers presented at Thematic Symposium “Integrity of Biomedical and Biological Materials” organised by TC 14 within the framework of the 1st Virtual European Conference on Fracture. 2. ESIS TC14 will organise Thematic Symposium “Integrity of Biomedical and Biological Materials” within the framework of ECF23, European Conference on Fracture 2022 in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, 27 June–1 July 2022 (http://www.ecf23.eu/ECF23_TC14_Symposium. pdf). The aim of this Symposium is to bring together specialists in mechanics and micromechanics of materials, applied mathematics, continuum mechanics, materials science, physics, biomechanics and medical engineering to discuss latest developments and trends in characterisation and testing protocols for biomedical materials as well as biological tissues and organs (both in vivo and in vitro), constitutive equations of their behaviour and advanced numerical simulation schemes. Vadim V. Silberschmidt TC15: Structural Integrity of Additively Manufactured Components The European Conference on the Structural Integrity of Additively Manufactured Materials, ESIAM, was founded in 2017 and first held in Trondheim, Norway 2019. The conference has been organized under the umbrella of ESIS TC15. This year in September a virtual conference has been organized. ESIAM21 constituted the second conference in the ESIAM series, where we could see several advances in fatigue design and lifetime prediction for AM metals, both on the test geometry as well as on the component level. Despite the online nature of the ESIAM21 conference this year, there were more than 150
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