XIV Portuguese Conference on Fracture (2014)
GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPTS FOR THE XIV PORTUGUESE CONFERENCE ON FRACTURE
A.M.P. de Jesus 1,2
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, A.A. Ribeiro 1,2 , J.J.L. Morais 3 , J.M.C. Xavier 3 , N.M.M. Dourado 3 ,
1 Departamento de Engenharias, Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro,
Quinta de Prados, 5001-801 Vila Real, Portugal.
2 IDMEC, Pólo FEUP, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
3 CITAB, Departamento de Engenharias, Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto
Douro, Quinta de Prados, 5001-801 Vila Real, Portugal.
ABSTRACT
This paper is a self-explained example of the format in which the original manuscripts should be submitted to the XIV
Portuguese Conference on Fracture (PCF2014), which will be held, in February 6th and 7th 2014, at the Hotel Régua
Douro, under the organization of the School of Sciences and Technology from the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto
Douro. Please write an abstract of about 150 words which accounts briefly and clearly for the objectives, contents and conclusions of the work. It should be self-comprehensive without references to the paper. Therefore, figures, tables or bibliographical references should not be referred. Papers have to be written in English.
KEYWORDS: Fracture, Fatigue, Durability, Case Studies, Experimental Techniques, Numerical Techniques.
1. INTRODUCTION
Aiming at the best possible quality for the proceedings, the format of this document should be strictly followed.
The file should be converted to PDF. Manuscripts should be submitted in both Word and PDF formats.
The files must be named according to the paper code included in the acceptance message sent to you, e.g.
A00.doc and A00.pdf.
The maximum number of pages is 8, including figures and tables. This will be strictly enforced.
Once finalized, the files of the manuscripts should be sent by email to pcf2014@utad.pt
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2. DETAILS
DIN A4 size paper shall be used with single spacing between lines and double 80mm wide columns separated by 10mm. Use size 10 Times New Roman font.
All sheets must have the same margins as the present example: left and right, 20mm, top and bottom 25mm.
The headings of the different sections of the paper shall be written in capital bold, and are preceded by two lines.
Sub-headings, if used, are written in lowercase italic.
Paragraphs are separated by one line. No indentation is used. The meaning of acronyms should be given.
3. EQUATIONS
Equations are typed leaving one line above and another below. All equations are numbered by a number in parentheses at the right margin of the column.
References to the equations in the text are made indicating the corresponding number between parentheses, e.g. “the experimental da/dN-
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K data under the several stress ratios analysed were correlated by the Nasgro equation, Eq. (1), initially presented in the complete form by Forman and Mettu [1].” da dN
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The meaning of the variables used should also be given, e.g. “where 
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4. FIGURES AND TABLES
4.1. Format
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Corresponding author. Tel.: +351 259 350 306; fax: +351 259 350 356.
E-mail address: ajesus@utad.pt
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Figures must be included in the more appropriate place in the text. They should be of suitable quality, concerning resolution but also design, in particular size of letters etc., which must be large enough. In general, figures should have the width of one column, but assessment of a steel pressure vessel”, Fatigue and
Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures,
Vol. 27, No. 9, pp.799-810.
[3] Caldeira, T.V.P., De Jesus, A.M.P., Dourado, N.M., exceptionally they can occupy two columns. Printing will be black and white only.
Morais, J.J.L., Lousada, J.L.P.C., 2012, “Effect of
Dowel Spacing and Dowel-to-end Distance on
Quasi-Static Mechanical Behaviour of Moment-
Carrying Steel-Wood
Doweled Joints”,
In
Proceedings of the XIII Portuguese Conference on
Figure 1. Logo of the 14th Portuguese Conference on
Fracture.
4.2. Tables
Tables are typed as the remaining text. Each table has a number and a title, and the format of Table 1 should be
Fracture , Ferreira, J.A.M., Costa, J.D.M., Borrego,
L.F.P. (Eds.), pp. 255-260.
[4] Ribeiro, A.S., De Jesus, A.M.P., “Fatigue Behaviour of Welded Joints Made of 6061-T651 Aluminium
Alloy”, In “Aluminium Alloys, Theory and
Applications”, Tibor Kvackaj and Róbert Bidulsky
(Eds.), InTech, pp.135-156. adopted. Pleases note that the Table title precedes the table.
Table 1. Important dates
Abstract submission
Acceptance of abstracts
Full papers
30-09-2013
31-10-2013
31-12-2013
Early registration fee payment
Conference
03-01-2014
Feb 6-7, 2014
4.3. Reference to figures and to tables
References to figures and tables in the text shall be made according to the following examples: “Fig. 1 shows that
…..”, “As shown in Fig. 2,…..”, “According to data presented in Table 3,….”.
5. REFERENCES
References are numbered sequentially as they are mentioned in the text, using square parentheses. As an example, “… a similar analysis was carried out in [1], using the technique discussed in [5,6-8]”. See
References section for examples of a reference list.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors would like to acknowledge ……
REFERENCES
[1] Forman, R.G., Mettu, S.R., 1992, “Behavior of surface and corner cracks subjected to bending and tensile loads in Ti-6Al-4V alloy”, ASTM STP 1131, pp. 519-546.
[2] De Jesus, A.M.P., Ribeiro, A.S., Fernandes, A.A.,
2004, “Validation of procedures for fatigue life
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