Abstract submission deadline: November 27, 2009. Click here to submit your abstract online.

Full papers may be submitted for consideration for publication in a special issue of the journal by July 30, 2010

The modern innovation cycle now demands that component design involves a whole-of-life approach, incorporating an awareness of manufacture, safety, reliability, environmental sensitivity and disposal.  This has focussed attention on the pivotal role of failure analysis as an essential tool to improve equipment availability, help prevent accidents and disasters and to inform the processes of design, manufacture, operation and maintenance of key plant and equipment.

Papers and posters are invited which describe:

• Engineering failure modes for metallic and non-metallic engineering materials
• Approaches to failure analysis
• Case studies of failures in industry sectors such as aerospace, marine and offshore, automotive, rail, power generation, mining and minerals, consumer goods, medical devices and others
• Historical disasters
• Structural and architectural failures
• Failure analysis, maintenance and reliability
• Role of failure analysis in the design process
• Failure analysis in forensic engineering

The strengths of past conferences have been the emphasis on practical application of technical knowledge to engineering failure analysis and the extensive use of case studies to the development of an understanding of engineering failures.  The case study approach is strongly encouraged as an important mechanism for developing a body of knowledge well rooted in practical experience.

Abstracts for oral and poster presentations on the above themes should be submitted via the online submission form at www.icefa.elsevier.com by November 27, 2009.

All abstracts will be refereed and a criterion of rejection will be lack of originality. Successfully submitted abstracts will be acknowledged with an electronic receipt including an abstract reference number, which should be quoted in all correspondence. Allow at least 2 hours for your receipt to be returned to you.

For revisions or queries regarding abstracts already submitted
If you do not receive acknowledgement for your abstract submission or you wish to make any essential revisions to an abstract already submitted, please DO NOT RESUBMIT your abstract, as this may lead to duplication. Please email the Conference Secretariat with details of any revisions or queries. Please quote your reference number if you have one.

A condition of submission is that if accepted one of the authors will present at the conference.