Newsletter #69-2023 14 after serving for the last 19 years as Secretary preceded by 8 years as Chairman and by an additional 14 years as Secretary since the HTMTC was formed in 1982. He would remain as an emeritus member of the Committee for a further year to provide continuity in handing over to the new Officers. Dr Hellmuth Klingelhöffer retired from BAM and is not able to stand as Chairman since the terms of his pension would preclude him being re-imbursed expenses, however his will remain as a committee member for another year and to help organise the next international conference at BAM. A new chairman and vicechairman as well as a new treasurer have been appointed. Conferences held and in planning ECCC2023 Creep & Fracture conference A joint UKHTPPF & HTMTC Conference was organised under the auspices of ECCC in Edinburgh between 22nd-24th May 2023, ECCC2023, 6th International Creep & Fracture Conference (LINK). The Conference had been a success with approximately 106 registrants. The standard of presentations was good and social/technical visits took place the following day. Of the 73 presentations 30 are expected to be accepted for inclusion in a special edition of Materials at High Temperature with the remaining presentations being published in the conference proceedings. A preliminary proceeding should be available at end June 2023 with a final version published when the journal papers have been accepted. Plans for the next conference ECCC2027, 7th International Creep & Fracture Conference are underway and will advise as soon as possible so that you can reserve a space in your diary. EUROMAT 2023 The EUROMAT conferences are run under the auspices of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS). The EUROMAT 2023 conference (LINK) is held in Frankfurt, Germany on 3rd – 7th September 2023. The HTMTC is involved through organisers of the B7 symposium, namely, Dr. Svjetlana Stekovic (Linköping University), D James Rouse (The University of Nottingham) and Dr Pearl Agyakwa (Nottingham University). The B7 symposium focuses on Microstructure Characterization, Mechanical Properties and Theory-Guided Development of Structural Materials. It received the highest number of abstracts, i.e. 144. The local Congress Organising Society is the German Materials Society-DGM e.V. Svjetlana will promote and communicate the HTMTC and its activities at the conference. 5th International TMF-Workshop 2024 BAM has decided to host the 5th International TMF-Workshop 2024 at BAM on 25-26 April 2024. Dr Hellmuth Klingelhöffer will organise it together with his colleague Dr Jürgen Olbricht. Dr Svjetlana Stekovic will be part of the Scientific Committee. It was intended to have a session on ISO12111, Metallic materials — Fatigue testing — Strain-controlled thermomechanical fatigue testing method which would be due for revision, and it was hoped that Mike McGraw, convenor of the relevant working group would be able to participate in the Conference. Further, Svjetlana plans to present a final draft of the Code of Practice for TMF CG at the conference under the HTMTC umbrella. Fatigue 2024 Fatigue 2024, 9th Engineering Integrity Society International Conference on Durability & Fatigue, is being organised in Cambridge between 19-21 June 2024 (LINK). Dr Stekovic (Linköping University), Dr Hyde (The University of Nottingham) and Prof Whittaker (Swansea University) are co-organisers of the conference. Workshop on Digital Image Correlation A Workshop on Digital Image Correlation techniques for control of testing machines is preliminary planned to be held at NPL and possible in collaboration with the British Society for Strain Measurement (BSSM). Plan is to have it in Autumn 2024. Other activities Dr Svjetlana Stekovic has joined the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Fatigue. Pete Barnard TC14: Integrity of Biomedical and Biological Materials Activities of ESIS TC14 “Integrity of Biomedical and Biological Materials” 1. ESIS TC14 organised the 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. The aim of this Symposium was 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.
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