ICF11 Official speeches

摘要

On behalf of the Organising Committee of ICF11, I am very pleased to introduce the 11th International Conference on Fracture, to be held in Turin, Italy, on March 20-25, 2005. ICF11 has been organised under the High Patronage of the President of the Republic of Italy, under the auspices of the Ministry of Infrastructures and Transportation of the Italian Government, and of the National Science Foundation of Italy (CNR), with the scientific support and sponsorship of worldwide leading Institutions in the fields of Fracture, Fatigue, Material Strength and Structural Integrity, like the International Congress on Fracture itself (ICF), the European Structural Integrity Society (ESIS), the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), while the Italian Group of Fracture (IGF), the Politec-nico di Torino and the Turin Academy of Sciences have taken the role of host organisations.