Ricardo R. Ambriz & David Jaramillo 
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on New Trends in Fatigue and Fracture [PDF ebook] 

Fatigue and fracture mechanics of structures and advanced materials.- Fatigue and fracture in pressure vessels and pipelines.- Mechanical behavior and structural integrity of welded, bonded and bolted joints.- Residual stresses and environmental effects on the fatigue behavior.- Simulation methods, analytical and computational models in fatigue and fracture.

Gabriel Plascencia has a Ph. D. degree from the Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada. The same year, he joined the faculty of graduate studies at the Center for Research and Technical Innovation of the National Polytechnic Institute in Mexico City.  
David Jaramillo Vigueras is a metallurgical engineer from the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) in Mexico. He has been a professor at the IPN since 1976 at the undergraduate and graduate levels, being also appointed Dean of Research, and Dean of Undergraduate studies at IPN. He has vast experience on industrial consulting in mechanical metallurgy, mechanical integrity and heat treatment of alloys. 
Ricardo Rafael Ambriz Rojas is a Professor at the Centro de Investigación e Innovación Tecnológica of Instituto Politécnico Nacional in Mexico. His expertise areas are welding of aluminum alloys, as well as fatigue and fracture behavior of welded joints. 
Moussa Naït Abdelaziz is a Full Professor at Lille University of Science and Technology. His area of research deals with experimental and numerical modeling of damage, fracture and fatigue of materials, especially focusing on polymers.