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	Language / Jazyk: Number of attendants: 48 Czech Society for Mechanics in cooperation with CTU in Prague and Association of the Aviation Manufacturers cordially invite you to a Workshop on Computational Fatigue Analysis 2009 & The 3rd PragTic Users' Meeting Mlynhotel, Vilanec, Czech Republic November 3-5, 2009 Goals of the Meeting Provide basic know-how on fatigue damage evaluation on mechanical parts to designers and computational analysts, including a description of methods used for assessing cyclic service loading under simple and complex loading. Introduce and present ability of PragTic to serve as a post-processor of an FEA, including demonstrations of solutions, in order to find new individuals and companies interested in using and further developing PragTic. Increase awareness of FatLim and FinLiv databases and projects related to them. PragTic is a freeware tool focused on fatigue analysis based on FEM data. You can find more details concerning this project on www.pragtic.com, where the program can be downloaded. FatLim & FinLiv MySQL/PhP databases are accessible to any visitor through Internet (http://www.pragtic.com/fatlim.php and http://www.pragtic.com/finliv.php). The main reasons for creating the databases are to preserve knowledge on experiments concerning fatigue limits under uniaxial and multiaxial loading; validate various computational methods on collected data and present all results; provide as far as possible equal access to this data to all researchers and engineers who need it for their work. Preliminary Program Topics This is only the third meeting in a series, and the focus and scheme are still evolving. The organizers have decided to invite more lecturers than in previous years, in order to broaden the topics of fatigue analysis. Currently, the invited educational lectures include: Computational fatigue analysis - Milan Ruzicka, Czech Technical University in Prague Multiaxial fatigue - Jan Papuga, Czech Technical University in Prague Short cracks - Ludvik Kunz, Institute of Physics of Materials, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Gigacycle fatigue - Frantisek Novy, University of Zilina Fatigue under random loading - Adam Niesłony, Opole University of Technology Notch effect in fatigue - Luca Susmel, University of Ferrara Cyclic plasticity - Radim Halama, Technical University of Ostrava Fatigue in welds - Stanislav Vejvoda, Institute of Applied Mechanics Brno, Ltd. Each invited lectures will timetabled for 1-2 hours. More detailed information about the programme will be subsequently published in the section Program. Conference Location and Accommodation The meeting will be held at Mlýnhotel in Vílanec. Vílanec is a village located 6 km away from Jihlava in the central part of the Czech Republic on the main road Jihlava – Vienna, only 15 km away from the D1 highway. Vienna is 180 km away, Prague 130 km. The standards of Mlýnhotel concerning accommodation as well as of the conference hall are very good. The close vicinity to three UNESCO sites (Třebíč, Telč and Zelená Hora near Žďár nad Sázavou) makes it an interesting destination for any travels before or after the conference. The conference fee includes the price of accommodation and full board (without drinks). Attendance Fee The fee is set in two versions. The Early Bird rate is available to all who will pay before July 1, 2009: students and invited speakers - 110 EUR other participants - 160 EUR The regular rate is for all participants who settle their payment after July 1, 2009: students - 130 EUR other participants - 200 EUR The fee includes accommodation, full board, a CD-ROM with presentations, and workshop attendance. Members of the Czech Society for Mechanics pay 10% less. Details concerning payment of the attendance fee are presented in the Payment section of the conference website. Conference Language English is the official language of the lectures. Application Those interested can register on the webpage Application until October 26, 2009. If you need to receive confirmation of your payment, provide the complete postal address and VAT number of your employer in the registration form. Further Details Up-to-date information concerning e.g. the time schedule and transport to the location will be published subsequently in new sections created in the bottom right-hand space on the conference web-page. The training lessons for real use of PragTic will be organized at the end of the 3rd PragTic Users' Meeting, according to the demand of participants. The PragTic training lessons will be limited to 8-10 participants, so please contact us on papuga@pragtic.com as soon as possible if you are interested in taking part. The course will last approximately 4 hours. Participants in the training lessons are asked to bring along their own laptops. Any participant able to do this should please inform the organizers. Organizing Committee Chairman: Jan Papuga, papuga@pragtic.com Program director: Milan Růžička, milan.ruzicka@fs.cvut.cz Conference staff: Karel Doubrava; Josef Jurenka; Zbyněk Hrubý Finances: Jitka Havlínová, csm@it.cas.cz Conference Contacts Webpage: http://www.pragtic.com/UM.php. The most details will be subsequently published in the right-bottom sections of the website http://www.pragtic.com Tel.: +420 737 977 741 (Jan Papuga) E-mail: papuga@pragtic.com and above papuga@pragtic.com