Scientific Books of Abstracts

This volume contains the abstracts presented at the 8th International Conference on Numerical Modelling in Engineering (NME 2025), held in Ghent, Belgium, from 29 to 31 July 2025. The conference gathered international experts from academia and industry to discuss recent advances in numerical methods such as FEM, BEM, and IGA, and their application across a broad spectrum of engineering disciplines. Special focus was placed on the industrial relevance of numerical simulations in fields including Civil, Aerospace, Mechanical, Materials, Biomedical, Electrical, and Electronics Engineering. The aim was to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration, promote innovation, and facilitate the exchange of ideas and methodologies among researchers and practitioners.

This volume contains the abstracts presented at the 13th International Conference on Fracture, Fatigue and Wear (FFW 2025), held in Ghent, Belgium, from 29 to 31 July 2025. The conference gathered leading researchers and engineers from academia and industry to share advances in fracture mechanics, fatigue, tribology, and material wear. Emphasizing both theoretical and applied perspectives, the event fostered interdisciplinary dialogue through analytical models, numerical methods, and experimental studies. FFW 2025 aimed to promote global collaboration and innovation in addressing real-world engineering challenges.

The PCNS Passive Components Networking Symposium, a bi-annual international event, is exclusively dedicated to passive electronic components. Organized by the EPCI European Passive Components Institute in collaboration with a European university, the 5th edition of the PCNS Passive Components Networking Days Symposium was held 9-12th September 2025 at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería de Sevilla of Universidad de Sevilla, Spain. This event was co-hosted by ALTER Technology as the industrial partner. The PCNS 2025 program included 33 technical, industry, and scientific papers organized in six sessions covering topics ranging from quality to the applications of passive components. The PCNS conference program delves into the challenges associated with the development, design, and testing of passive electronic components tailored for use in industrial, automotive, defence, aerospace, and other environments. The PCNS 2025 themes focused on passive components in harsh environments, and Hot Topic Special Session discussed the impact of artificial intelligence on passive electronic components and their consequences.

This book contains the abstracts presented at the 20th International Conference on Internal Friction and Mechanical Spectroscopy (ICIFMS20) held in Lausanne 7-10 July 2025. This conference is the 20th of a series that started in 1956 in Providence (USA) until the last one in Rome in 2021. It is an open window on the progress of Science in understanding the elastic, viscoelastic and viscoelastic behaviour of materials. Topics cover a wide domain of modern physics: crystal defect dynamics, magneto mechanical damping, glass transition, and very low damping materials needed for gravitational wave detection and quantum opto-mechanical devices.

Welcome to the 4th International Symposium on Environment, Health and Safety (ISEHS), which successfully took palce on October 17-18, 2024, in Debrecen, Hungary. ISEHS 2024 aimed to provide a platform for experts from all three pillars of EHS to share their latest research contributions and exchange knowledge, with the common goal of creating a cleaner, healthier, and safer future. More than 115 participants from eight countries registered for the 2024 event. The scientific program included 23 lectures covering a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: environmental protection and management (water and wastewater treatment, soil remediation, greywater utilization); occupational safety, fire protection, and industrial safety; protection against ionizing radiation and nuclear safety; energy storage.

The 10th International Scientific Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering (ISCAME, November 7-9, 2024, Debrecen, Hungary) was organized by the Department of Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering, University of Debrecen), the Working Commission of Mechanical Engineering (Specialized Committee in Engineering, Regional Committee in Debrecen, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) and the Scientific Association for Mechanical Engineering. The ISCAME was part of the 10th Mechanical Engineering Days. The main goal of ISCAME is to yearly bring together engineers, scientists, researchers, practitioners from academia and industry to present their original works and share experiences regarding all aspects of mechanical engineering sciences.

The 7th edition of the International Conference on Powder Metallurgy and Additive Manufacturing of Titanium, PMTi2024, is taking place for the first time in Spain after a successful series of previous conferences held in Australia, New Zealand, Germany, China, the United States and Canada. The aim of the conference is to gather researchers and professionals on the processing, design and application of titanium and its alloys fabricated by powder metallurgy (PM) and additive manufacturing (AM) technologies. For three days, attendants will have the opportunity to discuss topics from powder production and characterisation to applications through different processing routes. Besides Ti alloys, titanium aluminides and Ti-based metal matrix composites are also considered, as well as recycling and sustainability.

This book contains the abstracts presented at the 12th International Conference on Fracture Fatigue and Wear (FFW 2024), which was held in Xi'an, China, during the period 28-31 July 2024. Previous conferences were celebrated in Jinan (China, 2010), Kitakyushu (Japan, 2013), Kitakyushu (Japan, 2014), Ghent (Belgium, 2015), Kitakyushu (Japan, 2016), Porto (Portugal, 2017) and Ghent (Belgium, 2018 - 2023). The overall objective of the conference is to bring together international scientists and engineers in academia and industry in fields related to fracture mechanics, fatigue of materials, tribology and wear of materials. The conference covers industrial engineering applications in the above fields, including theoretical and analytical methods, numerical simulations and experimental techniques. One of the aims of the conference is to promote cooperation between international scientists and engineers from a large number of disciplines who are involved in research related to fracture, fatigue and wear.

This book contains the abstracts presented at the 7th International Conference on Numerical Modelling in Engineering (NME 2024). It is the 7th NME meeting and was held at Xi'an, China, during the period 28-31 July 2024. Previous NME conferences were celebrated in Ghent, Belgium (2018), Beijing, China (2019), and Ghent, Belgium (2020-2023). The overall objective of the conference is to bring together international scientists and engineers in academia and industry in fields related to advanced numerical techniques, such as FEM, BEM, IGA, etc., and their applications to a wide range of engineering disciplines. The conference covers industrial engineering applications of numerical simulations to civil engineering, aerospace engineering, materials engineering, mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, etc.

Following the long tradition that started in 1987, the International Workshop on Positron Studies of Defects 2024 (PSD-24) will be held in Como, Italy, in the period from September the 1st to 6th, 2024. The aim of the workshop is to provide an opportunity for exchange of the latest results and scientific information concerning the positron interactions with solids and surfaces, the generation of slow positron beams and their applications.