Events

The 5th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management
and the 2010 International Congress on Fracture Interquadrennial
(WCEAM & ICF/IQ 2010)  25-27 October 2010
Brisbane, Queensland,  Australia

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The 5th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management and the 2010 International Congress on Fracture Interquadrennial  (WCEAM & ICF/IQ 2010) will be held in Brisbane Queensland, Australia.

The World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (www.wceam.com)  is the annual meeting of the International Society of Engineering Asset Management (ISEAM, www.iseam.org) and originated from a biennial series of the Asia-Pacific Conference on Systems Integrity and Maintenance (ACSIM) which ended in 2005. The inaugural event of this new annual series began in 2006 in the Gold Coast in Australia. It was organised by the CRC for Integrated Engineering Asset Management (CIEAM), and the Maintenance Society of Australia (MESA) with strong support from the Intelligent Maintenance Systems Center (IMS), USA. In 2007, it was organised by the British Institute for Non-Destructive Testing in Harrogate, UK and moved to Beijing in October 2008 when it was organised by the Beijing University of Chemical Technology and the Intelligent Maintenance Systems Center, USA. The fourth in the series was organised by the Hellenic Maintenance Society, CIEAM and ISEAM and was held in Athens, Greece in September 2009.

WCEAM 2010 will combine with the 2010 ICF/IQ in October 2010 in Australia. The rationale for the combined meeting - Engineering Asset Management is concerned with determining optimum service levels for assets while minimising risks, costs and the carbon footprint.  Assets, if not maintained properly will degrade and often degradation starts as structural fatigue which leads to fracture and eventual failure. Unexpected downtime and stoppages no doubt cost asset owners dearly.

Combining the ICF/IQ with WCEAM will provide significant synergies in the reporting of research endeavours and the various communities of practice in this vital area. While it will provide the ICF community the umbrella view of the potential outcomes for their work, it will also provide the WCEAM community with valuable insights into the failure mechanisms (diagnostics) and prognostics of asset health.