INCEFA-SCALE Final Seminar
ENVIRONMENTAL ASSISTED FATIGUE: Focusing on Gaps between Laboratory Data and Component Scale
Aix-en-Provence, 23-24 September, 2025
Audience: PhD students; professional engineers and researchers working in the fields of fatigue, environmental fatigue or structural integrity; highly experienced researchers and engineers wishing to update their knowledge and share experiences.
Fee and Registration: There is no fee, but registration is mandatory.
Accommodation: Information available below.
Venue: Aquabella Hotel, 4 rue Jean Jaurès, 13100 Aix-en-Provence, France.
Programme:
| Tuesday | |
| 9:00‐9:15 | Welcome and reception |
| 9:15‐9:45 | INCEFA-SCALE overview (A. McLennan, Amentum, UK) |
| 9:45‐10:30 | International Fatigue Database (T. Austin, JRC, the Netherlands) |
| Coffee Break & Networking | |
| 11:00‐11:45 | INCEFA-SCALE data management and data mining works (R. Cicero, Innomerics, Spain) |
| 11:45‐12:30 | INCEFA-SCALE testing programme: overview (J. Beswick, Amentum, UK) |
| Lunch | |
| 13:30‐18:00 | Visit to ITER (for the first 50 registered attendants) |
| Wednesday | |
| 9:00‐9:45 | Experimental results: effect of environment and loading variables (J. Beswick, Amentum, UK) |
| 9:45‐10:30 | Experimental results: effect of specimen type (L. Doremus, Framatome, France) |
| Coffee Break & Networking | |
| 11:00-11:45 | Biaxial tests for EAF characterization (C. Jacquemoud, CEA, France) |
| 11:45-12:30 | INCEFA-SCALE advances on modelling and assessment rules (S. Courtin, EDF, France) |
| Lunch | |
| 13:30-14:30 | Fractography in fatigue analyses: how micro explains macro (Z. Que, VTT, Finland) |
| 14:30‐15:30 | Application of experimental data to the analysis of a real NPP component (R. Cicero, Innomerics, Spain) |
| Coffee Break and Networking | |
| 16:00-17:00 |
EPRI component-scale tests (T. Damiani, EPRI, USA) |
| 17:00-17:30 | Discussion panel: beyond INCEFA-SCALE (A. McLennan, Amentum, UK) |
This event is funded by the Euratom Work Programme 2019-2020 under grant agreement No 945300.
Accommodation
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Transport information
Flights to Marseille Provence airport:
27 km from the Aquabella Hotel.
Airport shuttle to Aix-en-Provence bus station every 30 minutes from 5:35 to 00:25.
From the bus station to the hotel there is a 15-minutes walk (1.1 km).
Trains to Aix-en-Provence TGV station:
18 km from the Aquabella Hotel.
Shuttle to Aix-en-Provence bus station every 15 minutes from 5:45 to 00:35.
