JFMS 2026
15th Conference on Reliability of Materials and Structures
Aix-en-Provence, October 14-16, 2026
The 15th Conference on Reliability of Materials and Structures (JFMS) will be organized by INRAE from October 14 to 16, 2026, in Aix-en-Provence.
Since 1994, the JFMS has been a forum for discussion on the latest advances in reliability and probabilistic approaches to the design, optimization, evaluation, and maintenance of structures, civil engineering works, and industrial systems. The concepts of reliability, safety, robustness, and resilience are based on the control of uncertainties through adequate modeling of data, the system, and its environment.
The 2026 JFMS will be an opportunity to celebrate 100 years of reliability approaches, since the first published work on the use of probabilities to integrate uncertainties into the safety assessment of structures (Mayer, 1926).
The 2026 JFMS continues in the same vein as previous editions, highlighting the contributions of reliability-based approaches to analyzing system risks in their environment in a context of global change. These approaches contribute to this societal challenge by:
(1) analyzing the risks of system failure at the level of materials, structures, infrastructure, buildings, and territories;
(2) characterizing the hazards and vulnerability of systems in a context of climate change;
(3) integrating advances in artificial intelligence to improve the reliability of structures in the face of global change;
(4) forming part of cross-disciplinary decision-making support and participatory approaches to risk management.
The presentations will be grouped into the following thematic sessions. Round tables will also be organized around cross-cutting themes and major challenges for the reliability-based approach.
Theme 1: System reliability and safety, reliability-based design and optimization.
Theme 2: Hazards and stresses in the context of climate change.
Theme 3: Degradation of materials, structures, and engineering works.
Theme 4: Modeling, monitoring, inspection, and life cycle management.
Theme 5: Propagation of uncertainties and reliability methods.
Theme 6: Decision support for risk management.
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