TC2 UPDATE 2010
Minutes of the TC2 ESIS meeting
Brno, June 29, 2010
Present:
Prof. J. Pokluda (CZ), Prof. I. Dlouh (CZ), Dr. B. Fedelich (GE), Prof.
J. Janovec (SVK), Dr. V. Kozhusko (AT), Prof. J. Marrow (UK), Dr. K.
Slamecka (CZ).
Agenda:
1) TC2 State of the Art
2) ESIS/Elsevier agreement
3) Special issues and other future outputs
4) Next TC2 meetings
TC2 - State of the Art
TC2 is one of the best
working TCīs in the frame of ESIS. There are regular meetings and
workshops each year. Two special issues of Engineering Fracture
Mechanics (August 2008 and January 2010) devoted to TC2 were published.
ESIS/Elsevier agreement
According to information
received from Prof. Stefano Beretta, the Elsevier support for ESIS will
be substantially reduced in the next years. The only think actually
remaining unchanged is 5000 Euro for each special issue published in
selected Elsevier journals. This means that additional financial
resources should be searched for. Nevertheless, the ESIS/Elsevier
agreement should be re-considered or a new, more favourable, Publishing
House should be found.
Special issues and other future outputs
A
general agreement was met in the decision that further production of
special issues or STPīs will be suspended until the receipt of 4 000
Euro as a part of 10 000 Euro ESIS income from Elsevier for two special
issues. This amount was promised to the TC2 chairman from the ESIS ExCo
in order to enable a support for young scientists to participate at TC2
workshops. The guest editorial is too hard work to be done without a
clear background and an appropriate support from ESIS.
Next TC2 meetings
The next meeting will be held
during the ECF18 in Dresden in August 2010. Dr. Fedelich promised to
organize a TC2 workshop in Berlin next year. Prof. Marrow will consider
an arrangement of a TC2 workshop in Oxford, UK, in 2012.