The story
The idea for an International Congress on Fracture dates to 1961 and a meeting at MIT when an “Interim International Conference Committee” was established under the Chairmanship of Takeo Yokobori.
In November 1965, ICF1 was organised in Sendai, Japan. In April 1969, at ICF2 in Brighton, England, ICF was formally founded with statutes and by-laws, a Council and Executive. Thereafter ICF organised a major conference every four years. ICF also organised “interquadrennial” conferences, the first of which was in Beijing, China in November 1983. ICF established national organisations in their member nations, one of the first being the “Australasian Fracture Group” in 1971.
ICF became more than a conference organiser and rather a society for the broad field of structural integrity, fracture, fatigue, creep, corrosion and reliability – from biological to geophysical materials: metals, alloys, ceramics, composites, electronic and natural materials. The scope evolved through ICF1-1CF12 from nano to macro scales, from basic science, engineering and mathematics to practical technology and systems modelling for safe design.
At an ICF Interquadrennial Conference in Anaheim, California, May 2011 ICF was renamed “ICF: The World Academy of Structural Integrity”.
From Wikipedia’s article on International Congress on Fracture, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4