Welcome to International Conference on Plasticity, Damage, and Fracture 2026

ICPDF 2026: Jan. 3-8, 2026, Geelong, Australia.

IMPORTANT DATES

Your intent to attend and abstract …………………………………………………………………. NOW

Hotel Reservation …………………………………………………………………………………………… NOW

Early registration (see regist. on website) ………………………………………………………  October 5, 2025

Abstract  & Regular registration ……………………………………………………………………… November 2, 2025

Final registration due ……………………………………………………………………………………..  December 7, 2025

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PLASTICITY, DAMAGE & FRACTURE 2026 (ICPDF2026), will take place at Novotel Geelong (Jan. 3-4) and Deakin Waterfront Campus (Jan. 5-7), Cultural Excursion (Jan.8), Geelong, Australia during Jan.3-8, 2026. Novotel and Waterfront Campus are located very close each other (2 mins. by walk). This Conference series is the prime forum for plasticity, damage and fracture research dissemination as usually 300-400 scientists from around the world participate in this conference, including many IJP editorial board members, authors and reviewers, as well as several editors of other journals. 

The conference will focus on multi-scale computational PDF, PDF of emerging materials (nano-crystalline solids, thin films, bio-materials, polymers etc.) and micro mechanics of plastic deformation and texture evolution, including materials science aspects, novel developments in metal forming, and elastic-plastic damage and fracture mechanics. However, presentations in any area of plasticity, damage & fracture will be welcomed, especially experimental and materials science studies related to plastic deformation, damage and fracture. Thus topics of interest include but not limited to, plastic and visco-plastic behaviors of single crystals and poly-crystalline metals, nano-crystalline metals, thin films, bio-materials, ceramics, ice, rocks and soils, composite materials and polymers, as well as plasticity aspects of damage, failure and fracture mechanics. Conference presentations must include significant amount of original unpublished research related to experimental, numerical or theoretical analyses of the inelastic behavior of solids subjected to quasi-static, dynamic or cyclic thermo-mechanical loading.

A one-page abstract and your presentation at the conference are for quick dissemination of your research. The optional full-length papers are published in the International Journal of Plasticity after the standard peer review process and acceptance, for archival reference. The journal has close to the highest impact factor among all prominent solid mechanics and material science journals for past several years. Please see the journal details at: www.elsevier.com/locate/ijplas/ The full-length papers should be submitted for publication consideration anytime from six months before, to six months after the symposium. We expect this conference to be as outstanding, both technically and socially, as its predecessors, including the one in Whistler (July 2000), Aruba (Jan. 2002), Quebec City (July 2003), Kauai (January 2005), Halifax (July 2006) Alyeska Resort south of Anchorage (June 2007), Sheraton Keauhou Bay Resort (January, 2008), St. Thomas Frenchmans Reef and Morning Star Marriott Beach Resort (January 2009), St. Kitts Marriott Resort (January 2010), Marriott Puerto Vallarta Resort & Spa (January 2011), Rio Mar Beach Resort in San Juan (January 2012), Nassau Sheraton (January 2013), Grand Lucayan Resort at Freeport (January 2014), Rose Hall Hilton in Montego Bay, Jamaica (January 2015), Sheraton Kona, Hawaii (January 2016), and Marriott Puerto Vallarta in Mexico (2017), InterContinental San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA (2018), Westin Playa Bonita in Panama City, Panama (2019), Barcelo Grand Maya in Rivera Maya, Mexico (2020), Barcelo Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (2023), and Westin Playa Bonita in Panama City, Panama (2024).

PRESENTATIONS

The presentations will include distinguished keynote (45 mins.) & keynote invited lectures  (30 mins) and invited presentations (15 mins). in each of three parallel sessions. The invited keynote lecture is expected to partly give an overview of the subject area. All presentations, including invited lectures, must contain a significant amount of unpublished results. A session of two hours will normally include two lectures and four invited talks. Computer projectors will be available for your presentation. Kindly follow the deadlines given at the top.