The NT2F13 congress, 13th International Conference on New Trends in Fatigue and Fracture, is intended to be a forum to discuss the present trends on fracture mechanics which consider the actual geometry of defects in light of notch fracture mechanics and new approaches based on mesomechanics and incremental plasticity to offer new interpretations of loading mode and geometrical effects on fracture toughness.

Fatigue and fracture of innovative metallic materials such as titanium alloys, as well as studies on nano, composite and biomaterials certainly represent a challenge for the scientific community because of the variety of possible new research topics that could be developed. In this sense, NT2F13 Conference will be also an excellent place for reviewing critically design codes in view of the increasing complexity of the engineering scenarios.