July 22 - 25, 2008

Organised by:

• The University of Bolton, UK
• Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan
• Taylor & Francis Group (Publishers of IJCRASH)
• Bolton Automotive & Aerospace Research Group (BAARG)
• The Editorial Members of the International Journal of Crashworthiness

Introduction

Recently, with the ever-increasing demand for mass transport by road, rail, air and sea, so is the potential for accidents and equipment failures. The resultant human injuries and damage to property present a massive burden on society. Thus scientists and engineers face an increasing challenge of finding solutions that greatly improve transport safety.

The International Conference of Crashworthiness (ICRASH) is to encourage scientists and engineers meet this challenge by providing a valuable forum in which they can present and discuss their work in this most important field of crashworthiness. The previous five ICRASH conferences were held with unprecedented successes in Dearborn (USA), London (UK), Melbourne (Australia), San Francisco (USA) and Athens (Greece), respectively, every two years since 1998, ICRASH has become a well-recognized platform for engineers, bioengineers, designers and researchers in the field of structural crashworthiness and impact biomechanics and provides a vital forum for experts to find designs that reduce death and injuries attributed from world's road, railway and air accidents.

Following the excellent reputations and emerging tradition of previous ICRASH conferences, Kyoto (Japan) is now hosting ICRASH 2008 to be held at the Kyoto Institute of Technology between 22-25 July 2008. On behalf of the Local Organizing Committee of ICRASH 2008, please accept our invitation and attend the Kyoto ICRASH 2008 International Crashworthiness Conference.

 

Kyoto Institute of Technology
Gosho-kaido machi, Matsugasaki,
Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8585, Japan.

Website: http://www.kit.ac.jp/english/index.html|

 

ICrash 2008 Programme Chairpersons

E. C. Chirwa (The University of Bolton, UK)

H. Hamada (Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan)

K. Mizuno (Nagoya University, Japan)

 

Distinguished Conference Scientific Faculty

W. Abramowicz     (Impact Design, Europe, Poland)

S. Acar   ( Loughborough University, UK)

W. Altenhof      (Unversity of Windsor, Canada)

J. A. Ambrosio   (Institute Superior Technico, Portugal)

F. A. Bandak    (Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, USA)

F. A. Berg    (Dekra Automobil GmbH, Germany)

C. Bisagni     (Politechnico di Milano, Italy)

R. H. Grzebieta    ( University of New South Wales, Australia)

C. D. Khan   (The George Washington University, USA)

C. Kindervater   (D F L, Germany)

K. Langwieder     (Institute of Vehicle Safety, Germany)

A. G. Mamalis     (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)

D. Otte    (Medical University Hannover, Germany)

J. J. Quartuccio    (Naval Air Systems Command, Maryland, USA)

J. D. Reid     (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)

Local Organizing Committee

H. Ichikawa    (Japan Automobile Manufactures Association, Inc.)

H. Furukawa    (Japan Automobile Manufactures Association, Inc.)

Y. Matsuoka    (Nihon ESI K.K., Japan)

Y. Matsui       (National Traffic Safety and Environment laboratory, Japan)

M. Sakurai     (Japan Automobile Research Institute)

S. Ujihashi    (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)

G. Ben      (Nihon University, Japan)

T. Koizumi     (Doshisha University, Japan)

S. Miyata     (Takata Corporation, Japan)

X. Yi    (AVIC I Beijing Institute of Aeronautical Material, China)

 

CONFERENCE MANAGERS

 Amy Yang

E-mail: d6851014@edu.kit.ac.jp |

A. Nakai

E-Mail: nakai@kit.ac.jp |

 

Enquiries:

Hamada laboratory
Advanced Fibro-Science
Kyoto Institute of Technology

Tel: (+81)-75-724-7844

Fax: (+81)-75-724-7800

E-mail:  d6851014@edu.kit.ac.jp  |

               nakai@kit.ac.jp |

               icrash@bolton.ac.uk|

 

Publications

 All papers accepted for presentation will be peer reviewed & published in the Conference Proceedings' CD-ROM to be issued to delegates at no extra cost. Following the conference, the keynote speeches and peer refereed selected papers will be published in The International Journal of Crashworthiness.

 

Conference Exhibition

An exhibition will be held at the conference venue giving a valuable advertising and promotional opportunity for manufacturers, research organizations and other interested agencies.

 

Accommodation

KARASUMA Kyoto Hotel is recommended by the ICRASH2008 Local Organizing Committee. The hotel is available at a reasonable rate of

Single Room -    Yen 8,500.00

Twin-bed Room- Yen 7,000.00 per person

(The above rates include breakfast, tax and 10% service charge.)

 

The Karasuma Kyoto Hotel is located in the centre of Kyoto city with subway access to Kyoto Institute of Technology.

http://www.kyotohotel.co.jp/karasuma/index_e.html|

For more hotel choices visit:

http://www.kyotohotel.co.jp|