Sunday, 5 July 2026
Castello di Milazzo
Aperitif with team building
15:00 Registration
16:00 Welcome to participants and introduction to the School
16:30 Meet the participants. Each participant will be able to present their activity/research
Cocktail & Social time
Monday, 6 July 2026
Palazzo d’Amico
09:00 Environmental assisted cracking mechanisms. Parkins Theory. Microstructurestress/strain-environment
DIRK ENGELBERG
09:45 Short breathing break
10:00 Electrochemistry aspect in EAC: from slip dissolution to hydrogen electrochemical reduction reaction
DIRK ENGELBERG
10:45 Coffee break
11:15 Mechanism of hydrogen embrittlement: Hydrogen entry, transport and effect on crack growth in metals
TOMÁŠ PROŠEK
12:00 Greener future and safety of hydrogen gas infrastructure
MARINA CABRINI
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Principles of fracture mechanics and their application on EAC phenomena
FABIO SCENINI
14:45 EAC in the nuclear industry
FABIO SCENINI
16:00 Short breathing break
16:15 Low temperature SCC of stainless steel in chloride environment: What swimming pools, climbing rocks and containers for nuclear waste have in common?
TOMÁŠ PROŠEK
17:00 Differences between chloride induced SCC under atmospheric and immersed conditions
TONY COOK
Tuesday, 7 July 2026
Palazzo d’Amico
09:00 HAC Modelling: approaches and limits
EDOARDO PROVERBIO
10:15 Coffee break
10:45 Study of the failure of a prosthetic component (Co-Cr-Mo alloy) also due to fatigue phenomena
LORENZO FEDRIZZI
11:30 EAC in oil & gas industries
FABIO BOLZONI
12:15 EAC of on-shore and off-shore pipelines
MARINA CABRINI
13:00 Lunch
14:00 EAC in Building and civil engineering
FABIO BOLZONI
15:00 Stress Corrosion Cracking and Corrosion Fatigue of aluminium alloys in commercial applications: Ships, Planes, Trains and other Applications
HENRY HOLROYD
15:45 Short breathing break
16:00 Liquid metal embrittlement of steel during hot-dip galvanizing
TIZIANO BELLEZZE
16:30 Failure of a cast duplex stainless steel valve in a petrochemical environment Failure of an austenitic stainless steel tie rod and cable in a metallurgical plant
LORENZO FEDRIZZI
20:00 Social dinner
Wednesday, 8 July 2026
Palazzo d’Amico
08:30 Environmentally assisted fatigue
LUIGI DI VITO
09:30 EAC initiation and early crack growth under mechanical driving forces below the thresholds levels obtained from conventional testing
HENRY HOLROYD
10:00 Coffee break
10:30 Linear elastic and elasto-plastic fracture mechanics tests. Non-standardized full-scale tests
LUIGI DI VITO
11:15 Monitoring EAC by Acoustic Emission and Electrochemical Noise techniques
EDOARDO PROVERBIO
12:30 Light lunch
14:00 Group Social Trip to the Aeolian Islands
Thursday, 9 July 2026
Palazzo d’Amico
08:30 Examination
10:00 Technical-educational Visit to Raffineria di Milazzo S.C.p.A.
- Technical seminar
- Lunch
- Visit to the refinery
15:00 Compilation of satisfaction
- Survey
- Questions and answer
- Round table
- Thank You & Closing Remarks
16:00 End of the school