TURAN DIRLIK’S METHOD
It has been forty years already from the publication of Turan Dirlik’s Ph.D. thesis in 1985. The thesis presented the celebrated formula for the rainflow range probability distribution. Since then, Dirlik’s formula – thanks to its accuracy – has gained a growing recognition by the scientific community. Even today, despite decades of research studies, his formula remains a reference for scholars dealing with vibration fatigue and related fields.

THE SYMPOSIUM
This symposium aims to gather the scientific community to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Turan Dirlik’s method, by recognising his outstanding contribution in the field of vibration fatigue. A ceremony will take place during the gala dinner.

TOPICS
Symposium topics include, but are not limited to:
1. Vibration fatigue and spectral methods
2. Structural integrity assessment with random and variable amplitude loadings
3. Health monitoring and fault detection
4. Fatigue Damage Spectrum (FDS)
5. Shaker testing and control
6. Mission synthesis and test tailoring

IMPORTANT DATES
1. Abstract submission: March 15th, 2025
2. Notification of acceptance: April 15th, 2025
3. Start of registration: May 1st, 2025

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
Abstracts (2 pages max.) should be written according to the template available at https://cism.it/en/activities/courses/J2502/, and submitted as PDF and WORD documents to the following email: vibfatigue@cism.it
Abstracts will be delivered at the symposium.

FULL PAPER SUBMISSION (OPTIONAL)
The scientific contributions presented at the symposium can be submitted as full papers (8 pages maximum) to be collected as proceedings in a CISM-Springer book (indexed in WoS and Scopus) published after the symposium. Details on the submission process will be provided at the symposium.
The publication of the book is conditional to the number submitted and accepted articles. There is no guarantee that the book will be published till the conference.

INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Denis Benasciutti (University of Udine, Italy)
Neil Bishop (CAEfatigue Ltd, MSC Software, UK)
Michał Böhm (Opole University of Technology, Poland)
Martin Česnik (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Huaihai Chen (Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics, China)
Filippo Cianetti (University of Perugia, Italy)
Turan Dirlik (Dirlik Controls Ltd, UK)
Tom Irvine (Vibrationdata, USA)
Leila Khalij (INSA Rouen, France)
Curtis Larsen (Nadelos Engineering, USA)
Adam Niesłony (Opole University of Technology, Poland)
Massimiliano Palmieri (University of Perugia, Italy)
Jan Papuga (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic)
Janko Slavič (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Giovanni Teixeira (Dassault Systèmes, UK)
Arvid Trapp (Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany)
Peter Wolfsteiner (Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany)

LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE
University of Udine (Italy)
Hassan M. A. Abdalla
Emanuele Avoledo
Denis Benasciutti
Francesco De Bona
Manish Kumar
Federico Milan
Marco Pelegatti
Enrico Salvati
Noel Sheshi
Alessandro Tognan
Jasen Zenzerovic