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ESIS Newsletter 71, July 2024

In this issue ESIS Officers ...................................................................................................................................... 3 Editorial by the ESIS President ........................................................................................................ 5 Five Elsevier journals affiliated with ESIS...................................................................................... 6 Procedia Structural Integrity............................................................................................................ 7 OA Journals affiliated with ESIS ..................................................................................................... 9 Special Issues 2023-2024 .................................................................................................................. 10 National Committees........................................................................................................................ 12 CZECH REPUBLIC .................................................................................................................................................... 12 GERMANY.................................................................................................................................................................. 13 HUNGARY .................................................................................................................................................................. 14 ITALY.......................................................................................................................................................................... 16 RUSSIA........................................................................................................................................................................ 16 SERBIA........................................................................................................................................................................ 18 SWITZERLAND ......................................................................................................................................................... 18 TÜRKIYE .................................................................................................................................................................... 18 Technical Committees...................................................................................................................... 19 TC03: FATIGUE OF ENGINEERING MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES ............................................................ 19 TC04: POLYMERS, POLYMER COMPOSITES AND ADHESIVES ...................................................................... 20 TC05: DYNAMICS OF FRACTURE AND STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS ............................................. 20 TC07: FAILURE ANALYSIS AND FORENSIC ENGINEERING............................................................................ 21 TC10: ENVIRONMENTALLY ASSISTED CRACKING.......................................................................................... 22 TC14: INTEGRITY OF BIOMEDICAL AND BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS........................................................... 22 TC15: STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY OF ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED COMPONENTS ............................. 22 TC16: FINITE FRACTURE MECHANICS ................................................................................................................ 23

TC21: HYDROGEN EMBRITTLEMENT AND TRANSPORT ................................................................................ 24 ESIS Publishing House (ESIS – PH) .............................................................................................. 29 ESIS Preprint Service (ESIS – PS) ................................................................................................. 30 ESIS YouTube channel (ESIS – YT).............................................................................................. 30 Calendar of ESIS events & TC Meetings ...................................................................................... 31 Calendar of Conferences & Workshops ........................................................................................ 31 ESIS Procedures and Documents ................................................................................................... 32 How to become an ESIS member ................................................................................................... 33

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ESIS Officers

President Prof. Emeritus Aleksandar Sedmak Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Belgrade Kraljice Marije 16, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia asedmak@mas.bg.ac.rs Past-President Prof. Francesco Iacoviello Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale - DICeM via G. Di Biasio 43, 03043, Cassino (FR), Italy iacoviello@unicas.it Vice-President Prof. Filippo Berto Department Chemical Materials, Environmental Engineeering, Sapienza University of Roma, Via dei Taurini, 19, 00185 Roma RM, Italy filippo.berto@uniroma1.it Vice-President Prof. Liviu Marsavina Department of Mechanics and Strength of Materials, Politehnica University of Timisoara Blvd. M. Viteazu, No.1, Timisoara 300222, Romania msvina@mec.upt.ro Secretary Prof. Pedro Moreira UMAI, INEGI, University of Porto Rua Dr Roberto Frias, 400, 4200 ‐ 465 Porto pmoreira@inegi.up.pt Treasurer Prof. Giuseppe Ferro Politecnico di Torino, Department of Structural Engineering & Geotechnics Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24, 10129 Torino, Italy

ferro@polito.it Vice-Treasurer Prof. Vittorio di Cocco Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale ‐ DICeM via G. Di Biasio 43, 03043, Cassino (FR), Italy v.dicocco@unicas.it

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Newsletter and publications Prof. Sabrina Vantadori University of Parma - DIA Parco Area delle Scienze 181/A, 43124, Parma, Italy sabrina.vantadori@unipr.it Liaison officers Prof. Emerita Leslie Banks ‐ Sills The Dreszer Fracture Mechanics Laboratory, School of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University Ramat Aviv, 6997801, Israel banks@tauex.tau.ac.il Prof. Jianying He NTNU Nanomechanical Lab Dept. of Structural Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), N ‐ 7491 Trondheim, Norway jianying.he@ntnu.no Prof. Milos Djukic Faculty of Mechanical Engineering University of Belgrade Kraljice Marije 16, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia mdjukic@mas.bg.ac.rs Blogger Prof. Per Ståhle Lund University, Solid Mechanics Lund, Sweden per.stahle@solid.lth.se ECF24 Chairman Prof. Zeljko Bozic Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb Ivana Lucica 5, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia zeljko.bozic@fsb.hr ECF25 Chairman Prof. Stavros Kourkoulis Department of Mechanics, National Technical, University of Athens Athens, Greece stakkour@central.ntua.gr

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Editorial by the ESIS President The ECF24 is just a few weeks ahead of us. More than 600 papers and particpants are expected to make another great event in ESIS history. Zagreb and Željko Božić with his team are ready and eager to host us in the last week of August, including the Summer School on Fatigue and Fracture Modelling and Analysis. All information about the ECF24 can be found on the website ( LINK ). Submission of abstracts is officially open until 15th July.

In the first half of 2024 ESIS activities were intensive, including a number of supported conferences and events, as you can see in this issue of Newsletter. The ExCo had an online meeting on 16th of April with usual Agenda and focus on ECF24. In the meantime, 4 SIs (IJF, EFA, EFM and TAFM) from ECF23 are completed. In total, 57 papers are published, just in time, before the new action after ECF24. Agreement with Elsevier for the period 2024-2026 (3 years) is signed and sealed! I kindly remind NGs chairpersons to settle the membership before ECF24 to become eligible to vote at the ESIS Council meeting. One of the important issues will be the bid for ECF26 in 2028. So far, two bids have been proposed: Seville and Rome. TCs are active as always, some more, some less… The new one, TC19, on Data-driven methods and machine learning applied to structural integrity, is now launched with the aim to follow these methods in connection to Structural Integrity and to open new research possibilities that will strongly impact practical application of theoretical knowlegde. I would like once again to remind all TC chairpersons to use our website for all information regarding their activities, past, present and future. In 2024 the Procedia Structural Integrity so far has released 9 new issues (Volumes 52-60, (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/procedia-structural-integrity/issues), what is far the most ever since the starting year 2016. In total more than 4,000 pages and about 700 papers are published, in the scope of the following Conferences: FDSHM, ESIAM23, ICSI 2023, ESICC 2023, FatDes 2023, ICSID 2023 and ICONS 2023. As previously announced, the ESIS Publishing House (ESIS-PH) enables ESIS members to publish Monographies and Scholarly Editions, edited volumes and special technical publications. All the volumes, are published as "Open Access", being completely free of charge both for authors and for readers. In the meantime, a new service has been established, ESIS preprint service (ESIS-PS), inspired by ESIS aims to develop and extend knowledge in all aspects of Structural Integrity and disseminate that knowledge worldwide to improve the safety and performance of engineering equipment, individual components and structures. ESIS Preprint Service (ESIS-PS) is an online archive containing works or data that are focused on ESIS topics. It is not necessary to be an ESIS member to upload works or data in ESIS-PS. A DOI is assigned to all the accepted files. The server maintenance is sponsored by ESIS, courtesy by our major driving force - Francesco Iacoviello. Aleksandar Sedmak

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Five Elsevier journals affiliated with ESIS

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Procedia Structural Integrity

Editorial Board Francesco Iacoviello, Italy

Sara Bagherifard, Italy Leslie Banks-Sills, Israel Chiara Bertolin, Norway Bamber Blackman, United Kingdom Željko Božić, Croatia Giuseppe Andrea Ferro, Italy Virginia Infante, Portugal Liviu Marsavina, Romania Pedro Moreira, Portugal Aleksandar Sedmak, Serbia Valery Shlyannikov, Russian Federation Per Ståhle, Sweden

Sabrina Vantadori, Italy Zhiliang Zhang, Norway

2024 Issues

Volume 60, pages 734 Third International Conference on Structural Integrity 2023 (ICONS 2023) Edited by S.A. Krishnan, A. Nagesha, A. Moitra, M. Vasudevan, Raghu V Prakash Volume 59, pages 798 VII International Conference “In-service Damage of Materials: Diagnostics and Prediction (DMDP 2023) Edited by Oleg Yasniy, Olha Zvirko, Hryhoriy Nykyforchyn, Volodymyr Iasnii Volume 58, pages 156 7th International Conference on Structural Integrity and Durability (ICSID 2023) Edited by Željko Božić , Siegfried Schmauder, Katarina Monkova, George Pantazopoulos, Sergio Baragetti, Francesco Iacoviello Volume 57, pages 904 Fatigue Design 2023 (FatDes 2023) Edited by Fabien Lefebvre

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Volume 56, pages 198 Structural Integrity and Reliability of Advanced Materials obtained trough Additive Manufacturing (SIRAMM23) Edited by Roberto Brighenti, Liviu Marsavina, Aleksandar Sedmak, Filippo Berto, Lubos Nahlik Volume 55, pages 222 ESICC 2023 – Energy efficiency, Structural Integrity in historical and modern buildings facing Climate change and Circularity Edited by Chiara Bertolin, Inês Flores-Colen, Vittorio Di Cocco, Stavros K. Kourkoulis, Aleksandar Sedmak Volume 54, pages 644 International Conference on Structural Integrity 2023 (ICSI 2023) Edited by Pedro Moreira, Paulo Tavares Volume 53, pages 416 Third European Conference on the Structural Integrity of Additively Manufactures Materials (ESIAM23) Edited by Filippo Berto, Francesco Iacoviello, Abílio De Jesus, Jan Torgersen, Sabrina Vantadori Volume 52, pages 794

Fracture, Damage and Structural Health Monitoring Edited by Ferri Aliabadi, Zahra Sharif Khodaei

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OA Journals affiliated with ESIS

Francesco Iacoviello Editor in Chief Sabrina Vantadori Co-Editor in Chief Jianying He Co-Editor in Chief

Zoran Radaković Editor-in-Chief

Aleksandar Sedmak Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

In order to be included in the Open Access journal panel affiliated to ESIS, a journal must respect the following criteria: - all the papers are submitted to a reviewing process; - the journal is completely free of charge, both for readers and for authors; - the journal is not published by a professional Publisher; - the journal is published in English and is included in DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journal). Other indexations (e.g., Scopus and ISI) are welcome.

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Special Issues 2023-2024 Journal Title

Event

Editors S. Vantadori F. Iacoviello A. Carpinteri P. Moreira L. Reis S. Vantadori N. James L. Susmel Y. Hong M. Vormwald T. Palin-Luc Ž. Božić S. Schmauder R. Clegg K. Monkova F. Iacoviello T. Depover M. L. Martin H. Matsunaga M. B. Djukic P. Moreira L. Reis V. Shlaynnikov V. Infante J. Correia A. Sedmak V. Moskvichev

Organized by

Int J Fatigue virtual SI Int J Fatigue virtual SI Int J Fatigue virtual SI Eng Failure Analysis virtual SI Eng Failure Analysis virtual SI Eng Failure Analysis virtual SI Eng Failure Analysis virtual SI

Fatigue Crack Paths 2024

The 8th International Conference on Crack Paths (CP 2024) European Conference on Fracture 2022 (ECF23) The 6th IJFatigue and FFEMS Joint Workshop on Characterisation of Crack Tip Fields

TC03

New Analytical, Numerical and Experimental Approaches in Fatigue - ECF23 Characterisation of Crack/Notch Tip Fields 6

ESIS

Germany N.G.

Structural Integrity and Durability ICSID2023

The 7th International Conference on Structural Integrity and Durability (ICSID 2023) The 5th International Conference on Structural Integrity (ISCI 2023)

ESIS

Understanding Environmentally Hydrogen Assisted Cracking of Metals: Key Towards a Sustainable Future Failure Analysis and Structural Integrity – Special issue on the European Conference on Fracture 2022 2nd International Conference on Risk Analysis and Safety of Complex Structures and Components (IRAS2022)

TC21

European Conference on Fracture 2022 (ECF23)

ESIS

The 2nd International Conference on Risk Analysis and Safety of Complex Structures and Components (IRAS2022) The 8th International Conference on Crack Paths (CP 2024) The 9th International Conference on Fracture of Polymers, Composites and Adhesives European Conference on Fracture 2022 (ECF23) The 9th International Conference on the Fracture of Polymers, Composites and Adhesives The 1st European Conference on Fracture (VECF1)

TC12

Eng Frac Mech virtual SI Eng Frac Mech virtual SI

Crack Paths 2024

S. Vantadori F. Iacoviello A. Carpinteri

TC03

Advances in fracture of PCA

B.R.K. Blackman A.J. Brunner L. Warnet

TC04

Eng Frac Mech virtual SI

Recent Advances in Fracture Research of Materials and Structures 1st Virtual ESIS TC4 Conference on Fracture of Polymers, Composites and Adhesives Fracture behavior of additively manufactured materials and structures Innovative Experimental, Analytical and Numerical Tools in Fracture Research IGF27: 27th International Conference on Fracture and Structural Integrity Crack paths in composite materials

A. Sedmak L. Marsavina S. Schmauder L. Reis

ESIS

Eng Frac Mech virtual SI

A. Brunner B. Blackman A. Vassilopoulos L. Warnet L. Marsavina P. Moreira F. Berto C. Gao A.J. Brunner S.K. Kourkoulis L. Reis L. Banks-Sills B. Blackman

TC04

Eng Frac Mech virtual SI

ESIS

Theor and Appl Fract Mech virtual SI

European Conference on Fracture 2022 (ECF23)

ESIS

Science Talks virtual SI

The 27th International Conference on Fracture and Structural Integrity The 8th International Conference on Crack Paths (CP 2024)

F. Berto F. Iacoviello V. Di Cocco S. Vantadori S. Vantadori F. Iacoviello A. Carpinteri

Italy N.G.

Compos Struct virtual SI

TC03

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Journal Progress in Engineering Science virtual SI Med Eng Phys virtual SI

Title

Event

Editors S. Vantadori F. Iacoviello A. Carpinteri

Organized by

Novel analytical, numerical and experimental approaches in failure analysis - CP2024 Medical Devices: Materials, Mechanics and Manufacturing

The 8th International Conference on Crack Paths (CP 2024) The 2nd International Conference on Medical Devices: Materials, Mechanics and Manufacturing (ICMD3M 2023)

TC03

V. Silberschmidt S. Korossis

TC14

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National Committees CZECH REPUBLIC

The International Conference on Multiscale Materials Modeling (MMM), September 22-27, 2024, Prague Congress Center, Czech Republic is going to be organised by Institute of Physics of Materials of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Chairman: Assoc. Prof. Roman Groger) and it is supported European Structural Integrity Society (ESIS –Czech Republic branch, Assoc. prof. Stanislav Seitl).

The MMM series is the world’s largest conference series focused on different aspects of MMM. The MMM-11 has approximately 600 registered participants from around the world (June/2024). The conference will focus on both classical as well as new ground-breaking directions in the field. These are mainly: - Mathematical and computational foundation of multiscale methods - Probabilistic modeling and uncertainty quantification - Quantum mechanical studies of structure and properties of materials - Microscopic origins and multiscale modeling of plasticity, fracture and fatigue of materials - Multiscale studies of hard materials (crystalline, amorphous), soft and biological materials, multifunctional, hybrid materials and interfaces - Microstructure evolution across multiple length and time scales - Design of materials for energy conversion, harvesting and storage - Multiscale modeling of nuclear materials and radiation effects - Synergistic coupling of experiments with multiscale modeling - Relationships between micromechanisms and pattern formation - Hierarchical and nature-inspired materials - Additive manufacturing and emerging manufacturing methods - Materials informatics (machine learning, data mining and artificial intelligence) We are proud to host the following symposia celebrating the life-long contributions of outstanding materials scientists who have made seminal contributions to the field of multiscale materials modeling: - Vaclav Vitek honorary symposium on atomistic modeling of materials - Ladislas Kubin memorial symposium on microstructure evolution across multiple length scales There will be no formal proceedings from the conference. However, the interested attendees can submit their paper for consideration into a special issue of the journal Modelling and Simulations in Materials Science and Engineering. Email: mmm11@ipm.cz Web pages: https://mmm11.ipm.cz/ Stanislav Seitl

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GERMANY Activities of the German group since January 2024 and scheduled activities:

Advanced training seminar 19.02.2024 in Kassel. Topic: “Numerical analysis of cracks and crack growth simulation”. Contents: Current methods of crack tip loading analysis, fundamentals of crack growth simulation with the FEM, challenges of mixed-mode loading, fatigue crack growth, examples of engineering applications, monitoring of crack tip strain with DIC, multi-parameter concepts in fracture mechanics, crack tip detection and evaluation from DIC data, calculation of SIF and simulation of 3D crack growth in anisotropic material, handling of operating load spectra, combination of LCF- and HCF- loading, handling of variable mode-mixity, phase field modeling of fracture and crack growth, dynamic crack propagation. Annual Meeting 20.02. - 21.02.2024 in Kassel. Topic: “Fracture mechanical material and component assessment: stress analysis, test methods and applications”. Contents: The evaluation and avoidance of fracture and damage processes play an essential role in the construction and design of components and systems as well as for the development of materials suitable for use in order to ensure technical safety, service life and economic efficiency. The aim of the meeting is to provide information on scientific progress and modern technical developments in the fields of fracture and damage mechanics and to exchange experiences. Working Group Meeting “Simulation” 18.04.-19.04.2024 in Aachen. Contents: Different numerical approaches for the simulation and prediction of damage and fracture were presented in talks and discussed in detail. The focus was inter alia on welded components, metal sheets, impact loading, rate-dependent effects and non-proportional cyclic loading. The results of the simulations were basically validated on the bases of experimental findings. Working Group Meeting “Mixed-Mode” 18.07.2024 in Zittau. Contents: Talks were given on theoretical as well as experimental and application-oriented topics. Various material classes are in the focus, i.e., fiber reinforced polymers, aluminum alloys and steel. The experimental investigations are predominantly performed under multi-axial loading conditions in both static and periodic regimes. Effects like crack closure, crack path stability and the impact of high temperature were discussed. On the methodological side, DIC, multiaxial testing and modern numerical methods such as the virtual element method (VEM) are explored. Advanced training seminar 17.02.2025 in Köln. Topic: “Digitalization and artificial intelligence (AI) in fracture mechanics”. Annual Meeting 18.02. - 19.02.2025 in Köln. Topic: “Fracture mechanical material and component assessment: stress analysis, test methods and applications”. Andreas Ricoeur

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HUNGARY Participation of Hungary in EU’s structural integrity related R&D projects

Core members of ESIS Hungarian Chapter applied by Hungarian research institutes such as Bay Zoltán Nonprofit Ltd. for Applied Research and the HUN-REN Centre of Energy Research are closely linked to European Union’s structural integrity related R&D projects dealing with structural integrity, structural health monitoring and related topics. Some of these are presented below but are not exhaustive. The ENTENTE project (No. 900018) has been funded under the EURATOM 2019-2020 Framework Programme call NFRP-01 Ageing phenomena of components and structures and operational issues in 2020. The project has a duration of 4 years and will be implemented between September 2020 and August 2024 with 27 partners from 12 countries. The overall objective of the European Database for Multiscale Modelling of Radiation Damage (ENTENTE) project is to combine the modelling and experimental knowledge and data base on the ageing of RPV steels with existing results, using past projects and crossborder expert groups, and to reach an "entente alliance" on the extensive knowledge of relevant ageing phenomena. In this way, ENTENTE will contribute to improving the safety of nuclear power plants by enabling the development of quantitative predictive and/or corrective methods, operational practices to support the long term safe operation not only of the existing nuclear fleet but also of new light water reactors (Generation III/III+). The objective is to develop innovative data management tools to access and maximise the use of results from multi-scale modelling programmes. https://rdgroups.ciemat.es/web/materiales/entente The APAL (Advanced PTS Analysis for LTO, No. 945253) project was funded under the EURATOM 2019-2020 Framework Programme NFRP-02 Safety assessments for Long Term Operation (LTO) upgrades of Generation II and III reactors in 2020. The project started in October 2020 and will close in September 2024. In addition to 14 European institute-laboratories, the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) and Oakridge Consulting International (OCI) are participating in the project. The APAL project aims to develop safety assessment methods for nuclear power plants with the objective of improving their safety across Europe. The main thrust of the work is to develop an advanced probabilistic assessment method for Pressurised Thermal Shock (PTS), to quantify the safety margins required to improve Long Term Operation (LTO) and to develop best practice guidance.

https://www.apal-project.eu The DELISA-LTO (DEscription of the extended LIfetime and its influence on the SAfety operation and construction materials performance – Long Term Operation with no compromises in the safety, No. 101061201) project was funded under the EURATOM Framework Programme call NRT-01-01 (Safety of operating nuclear power plants and research reactors) in 2021. The consortium (Figure 3)

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includes all the countries operating VVER units in the European region and all the research organisations with an interest. The DELISA-LTO project, launched in June 2022 and running until the end of May 2026, aims to improve operational safety and extend the lifetime of the project by identifying the most critical components for LTO and describing the impact of LTO on material properties. Development of non-destructive methods, simulation tools and methodologies for early failure prediction. To make recommendations for the future operation of nuclear power plants and to assess their life extension. https://delisa-lto.eu/ The FRACTESUS (Fracture mechanics testing of irradiated RPV steels by means of sub-sized specimens, No. 900014) project was funded under the EURATOM 2019-2020 Framework Programme NFRP-04 Innovation for Generation II and III reactors in 2020. The project started in October 2020 and will end on 30 September 2024. In addition to several European laboratories, the project also involves the Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) and the Central Research Institute for Electric Power Industry of Japan (CRIEPI). From the very beginning of the European nuclear programme, the degradation of RPVs was recognised. Surveillance programmes were therefore put in place to monitor degradation. This typically involved the use of Charpy-sized test specimens (10 x 10 x 55 mm³) of representative materials, which were irradiated in monitoring capsules under representative conditions. The project will use the material from the broken Charpy specimens to test the brittleness of the reactor vessel using miniature (10 x 10 x 4 mm³) CT specimens. This project will also benefit Generation III+ and future nuclear systems. Structural materials for future nuclear systems, in particular for Generation IV and fusion systems, will have to cope with high radiation conditions. https://fractesus-h2020.eu/en STRUMAT-LTO (STRUctural MATerials research for safe Long Term Operation of LWR NPPs, No. 945272) is one of the EURATOM research framework programmes (NFRP-2019-2020-01 - Ageing phenomena of components and structures and operational issues) adopted in 2020, led by the Hungarian institute, the Energy Research Centre (HUN-REN-CER), together with the Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group (NRG) of the Netherlands, together with 17 EU institutes and a research centre in Ukraine. The consortium received EU funding in 2020 and research has started, with completion planned for 2024. The aim of the project is to clarify the role of Mn and Ni alloying elements in the radiation damage of nuclear reactor vessel material.

https://strumat-lto.eu/

Peter Trampus

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ITALY In the months of January and April 2024, the Italian Group of Fracture (IGF) published two issues of Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale – Fracture and Structural Integrity . In June 2024, the journal obtained: - A CiteScore value of 3.4 (to be compared with the value of 2.9 in 2023). - A WoS Impact Factor value of 1.2 (to be compared with the value of 1.4 in 2024). In addition, IGF published the 53rd issue of Procedia Structural Integrity dedicated to the “Third European Conference on the Structural Integrity of Additively Manufactures Materials (ESIAM23)” that was held in Porto, Portugal, (September 4-6, 2023). For the same event, IGF published in ESIS – PH the volume of the videorecordings of the presentations. In 2024, IGF will organize The 8th International Conference on Crack Paths (CP2024) . The event will be held in Rimini, Italy, and online (10 - 12 September 2024) This Conference follows the Conferences in Parma in 2003 and 2006, Vicenza in 2009, Gaeta in 2012, Ferrara in 2015, Verona in 2018 and online in 2021. Members of different industrial laboratories and scientists from all over the world are invited to contribute with presentations on any of the following topics (in the case of both static and fatigue loading): - Experimental Determination of CP - Theoretical Prediction of CP - Integrity Assessments based on CP Evaluation - Microscopic Aspects of CP - CP of Surface Cracks - CP of Short Cracks - Effect of Large Scale Yielding on CP - Effect of Material Inhomogeneities on CP - Effect of Non-Proportional Cyclic Loading on CP - Effect of Environmental Conditions on CP - CP in Advanced Materials - Laboratory Methods of Controlling CP - In-Service Inspection of CP - Application of CP Concepts and Data in Design - CP in Additive Manufacturing Processes - Industrial Application of CP Concepts and Data In 2025, the key event for IGF will be the joint Conference “IGF28 – MedFract3” that will be organized in September in Catania. Filippo Berto RUSSIA From June 19 to June 21, 2024, the 51st school-conference “Current Problems of Mechanics” in memory of Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences D. Indeitsev was held at Novgorod State University under the patronage of the Russian Academy of Sciences. More than 400 scientists from 29 regions of Russia and 50 cities around the world took part in the conference. Among the conference participants are academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences: H. Altenbach (foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, laureate of the RAS gold medal named after M. Lomonosov), V. Babeshko, I. Goryacheva, M. Guzev, N. Morozov; Corresponding member RAS: A. Belyaev, A. Krivtsov, Y. Petrov, O. Plekhov, S. Sarkisyan. The conference program included 8

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plenary, 272 oral and 63 poster reports, as well as 16 sections, 5 symposia, 2 round tables and a session in memory of D. Indeitsev.

Participants of the 51st С onference on current problems of mechanics in Veliky Novgorod, Russia. From May 27 to May 31, 2024 the 18th International Conference on Mechanics, Resource, and Diagnostics of Materials and Structures was held in Ekaterinburg, organized by the Institute of Engineering Science. Since 2021, the conference has been held under the patronage of the 17th TC of the ESIS. The scope of the conference includes the following topics: mechanics of damage and fracture; structural aspects of deformation and fracture; testing and diagnostics of materials and structures; materials with multilevel hierarchical structure; modeling and simulation of materials with multilevel hierarchical structure; fluid mechanics in engineering and living systems. The conference was attended by 242 participants from many regions of Russia.

Participants of the 18th International Conference on Mechanics, Resource, and Diagnostics of Materials and Structures (Ekaterinburg, Russia).

Valery Shlyannikov

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SERBIA The 12th Annual Conference of “ The Society for Structural Integrity and Life Prof. dr Stojan Sedmak“ will take place in Belgrade, Serbia, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering + online), 17-19 November 2024 ( LINK ). Aims of this international conference is to include researches concerning innovation and recent trends, multidisciplinary approach, as well as case studies, involving structural integrity assessment, risk analysis and safety of engineering structures taking into account environmental effects, materials behaviour, their characterisation, and the specificity of the structure itself. We invite an academic and engineering communities as well to take participation to this event, and to share their knowledge in following areas: - Structural integrity approach on engineering structures: development and recent trends - Structural integrity assessment: classic approaches - Methods for reliability and probabilistic safety assessment - Investigation on structural integrity of engineering structures under specific loading condition - Environmental effect concerning structural integrity and material characterisation - Mechanical characterisation of engineering materials - Structural integrity of newly developed materials in engineering application - FEM and analytical modelling of failure under various loading conditions - Fracture mechanics approach in structural integrity assessment - Welding and welding constructions as a specific problem: damage analysis, environmental effects and specificity. Special lecture on Computational Fracture Mechanics, dedicated to Prof. Mladen Berković (1936 - 1999) will be delivered by Prof. Emeritus Aleksandar Sedmak. Aleksandar Sedmak SWITZERLAND The next meeting together with the Structural Integrity Group of SVMT is planned for Thursday, September 5, 2024 at Pilatus Aircraft Company in Stans, open for guests, contributions (oral presentations 15-20 minutes) submission open, deadline August 30, 2024, Lead theme " Structural integrity in transportation ", contact for submissions and further information: Ingrid.Kongshavn@ruag.ch. Andreas J. Brunner

TÜRKIYE 3rd IWPDF Workshop in Istanbul in October 2023

The special issue of the meeting will be published next week in Procedia Structural Integrity. The title of the special issue is: 3rd International Workshop on Plasticity, Damage and Fracture of Engineering Materials. Tuncay Yalcinkaya

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Technical Committees TC03: FATIGUE OF ENGINEERING MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES Objectives of TC3

1) Organisation of the Thematic Symposium on “Fracture and fatigue failure of engineering materials and structure” (chaired by Professors Sabrina Vantadori, Andrea Carpinteri, Camilla Ronchei, Daniela Scorza, Andrea Zanichelli, Parma, Italy) at the 24th European Conference on Fracture (ECF24), Zagreb, Croatia, 26th to 30th August, 2024 ( LINK ) 2) Organisation of The 8th International Conference on Crack Paths (CP 2024) , in Rimini - Italy and online, 10th to 12th September, 2024. Chairpersons: Sabrina Vantadori (Parma, Italy), Francesco Iacoviello (Cassino, Italy), Nicholas Fantuzzi (Bologna, Italy), Andrea Carpinteri (Parma, Italy), Luca Vincenzo Ballestra (Bologna, Italy). The venue of the Conference is the most famous seaside resort on the Adriatic Riviera. Moreover, Rimini is truly a place of artistic and cultural interest, a place that breathes out the unique force and energy of the many Roman and Renaissance masterpieces waiting for you to discover and enjoy. See these two links: Rimini, Italy - between sea and historic center: LINK Rimini, the perfect city for your events: LINK Authors of selected presentations will be invited to submit their papers for the Special Issues that will be published after the Conference in: - International Journal of Fatigue - Special Issue on Fatigue Crack Paths 2024 - Engineering Fracture Mechanics - Special Issue on Crack Paths 2024 - Composite Structures - Special Issue on Crack paths in composite materials - Progress in Engineering Science - Special Issue on Novel analytical, numerical and experimental approaches in failure analysis - CP2024 Moreover, the TC3 Young Scientist Award is created by ESIS TC03 Technical Committee to distinguish the best contribution presented during the 8th International Conference on Crack Paths (CP2024).

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3) Organisation of the Special Session on “Fatigue and fracture of eco-friendly, green and alternative structural materials” (chaired by Professors Camilla Ronchei (Parma, Italy), Daniela Scorza (Parma, Italy), Sabrina Vantadori (Parma, Italy), Andrea Zanich elli (Parma, Italy), Łukasz Sadowski (Wrocław, Poland), Grzegorz Lesiuk, (Wrocław, Poland)) at the International Conference on Sustainable Development in Civil, Urban and Transportation Engineering (CUTE 2024), Wrocław, Poland, 14th to 17th October, 2024 ( LINK ).

Sabrina Vantadori

TC04: POLYMERS, POLYMER COMPOSITES AND ADHESIVES 9th International Conference on Fracture of Polymers, Composites and Adhesives organized by ESIS TC4 and Elsevier, 24-27 March 2024, Maison de Congrès and Eurotel Victoria, Les Diablerets, Swit zerland. Around 90 participants, 46 oral presentations and 30 poster presentations (including 10 poster pitches). Special Conference Issue of Engineering Fracture Mechanics now open for submissions from oral presenters and reserve oral presenters, Editorial team B.R.K. Blackman, A.J. Brunner, L. Warnet. Submission deadline September 30, 2024. Next conference planned for September 19-23, 2027, Maison de Congrès and Eurotel Victoria, Les Diablerets, co-chaired by B.R.K. Blackman and A.J. Brunner. The next meeting of ESIS TC4 is planned for September 26-27, 2024, in person at University College Dublin (UCD), host Dr Neal Murphy, agenda and details to be announced end of August. TC05: DYNAMICS OF FRACTURE AND STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS Activities 2024: - TC5 Symposium “Fracture and Structural Transformations under High Rate and Impact Loading” within European Conference on Fracture – ECF 24. Zagreb, August 26-30 (Organizing committee: Prof. Yuri Petrov, Prof. Zejian Xu, Prof. Vladimir Bratov, Dr. Nikita Kazarinov) - Mini symposium «Dynamic Deformation and Fracture» within 51th Scientific School and Conference «Actual Problems of Mechanics». Veliky Novgorod, June 19-21 (Organizer: Prof. Yuri Petrov) - 24th Saint Petersburg Conference on Strength Problems and 3rd Youth Scientific School and Seminar «Mechanics, Chemistry and New Materials». Saint Petersburg, April 23-25 2024 (Organizers: Prof. Yuri Petrov, Prof. Sergey Belyaev, secretary: Elena Chernyaeva) Andreas J. Brunner

Yuri Petrov Nikita Kazarinov

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TC07: FAILURE ANALYSIS AND FORENSIC ENGINEERING The Tenth International Conference on Engineering Failure Analysis was held in Athens on 8 to 10 July. The co-chairs of the conference were Dr.George Pantazopoulos, Professor Cesar Azevedo and ESIS TC7 chairs, Dr.Richard Clegg and Professor Virginia Infante. The conference was organized and managed by Elsevier, who publishes the supporting journal, Engineering Failure Analysis. The conference had approximately 210 participants from around the world, including many from ESIS. The journal has grown strongly under the new Editor in Chief, Professor Cesar Azevedo and his team, with the Impact factor now at 4.4 and the number of downloaded articles from the journal website exceeding 1 million per year, showing the increasing interest in the field of engineering failure analysis. Keynote speakers at the conference were Nima Shamsaei, Zhen-Guo Yang, Kamran Nikbin, Jose M. Adam, Pandora Psyllaki, Richard Clegg and Athena Alexopoulou. Topics included a re examination of the failure of the Challenger Space Shuttle and failure mechanisms in additive manufactured components. The conference included an interesting workshop on art and philosophy of failure analysis, organized and presented by Dr.George Pantazopoulos. We are looking forward to the Eleventh International Conference on Engineering Failure Analysis, which will be held in China in 2026.

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TC10: ENVIRONMENTALLY ASSISTED CRACKING In 2023, TC10 took part in the organization of the VII International Conference “In-service Damage of Materials: Diagnostics and Prediction” under ESIS auspice. The Conference was held online, October 18-20, 2023 ( LINK ). The Conference was chaired by Profs. Oleg Yasniy (Ternopil Ivan Puluj National Technical University, Ukraine) and Olha Zvirko (Karpenko Physico-Mechanical Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine). Among the attendees were representatives of Italy, Spain, Germany, Poland, France, Slovakia, Hungary, Indonesia, Canada, Ukraine and others. A Minisymposium “Environmental Effects: Hydrogen and Corrosion” was organised by Profs. Jesus Toribio (Spain), Hryhoriy Nykyforchyn (Ukraine) and Olha Zvirko (Ukraine). Altogether 22 presentations were delivered in four sessions. TC10 meeting was also held at the Conference on October 19, 2023 (online). A Special issue of Procedia Structural Integrity (Vol. 59, 2024) devoted to the Conference contributions was published. In 2024, TC10 will organize a Thematic Symposium on “Environmentally Assisted Cracking and Hydrogen Embrittlement” – chaired by Profs. Jesús Toribio (Salamanca, Spain), Olha Zvirko (Lviv, Ukraine) and Nikolaos Alexopoulos (Chios, Greece) – at the 24 th European Conference on Fracture (ECF24), August 26–30, 2024 in Zagreb (Croatia). TC14: INTEGRITY OF BIOMEDICAL AND BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS 1) Technical Committee 14 "Integrity of Biomedical and Biological Materials" organises a Special Session within the framework of the 8 th International Conference on Material Modelling ICMM8 in London, UK on 15-17 July 2024 . This biennial conference is the eighth in the ICMM series. The first ICMM took place in Dortmund 2009 (Germany). The conference since then was held in Paris (France), Warsaw (Poland), Berkeley (USA), Rome (Italy), Lund (Sweden) and Cape Town (South Africa). More details can be found at the ICMM8 website ( LINK ) 2) A Special Issue of Medical Engineering & Physics (Elsevier) based on a selection of papers presented at the 2 nd International Conference on Medical Devices: Materials, Mechanics and Manufacturing ICMD3M 2023 organised by ESIS TC14 in Corfu, Greece (26-28 June 2023) is at the final stage of preparation, with 16 manuscripts submitted for consideration. TC15: STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY OF ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED COMPONENTS In 2023 in collaboration with TC18 ESIAM23 was organized in Porto from 4th to 6th of September. More than 100 participants have joined the events presenting their contributions to the conference in Porto. The social activities of the event were also very successful, giving the possibility to the participants to visit the beauties of Porto. We want to thank immensely the local organizers of the event Prof. Abilio De Jesus and Prof. Luis Reis. The next ESIAM conference will be held in 3 years from now in 2026. More information will be available in due to course. A special symposium dedicated to TC15 will be organized at ECF24 in Zagreb in August 2024 as well as at the next IGF conference in 2025 in September. A picture from the last event in Porto is provided below. Vadim V. Silberschmidt Hryhoriy Nykyforchyn

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ESIAM23 : Porto (Portugal ) from 4th to 6th of September 2023.

Filippo Berto

TC16: FINITE FRACTURE MECHANICS The NewFrac workshop, organized by Prof. Pedro P. Camanho (Chair) and Prof. Albertino Arteiro (Co-chair) of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, took place at the University of Porto, Portugal from May 7th to 10th, 2024. The workshop brought together the computational fracture mechanics community interested in Finite Fracture Mechanics and Phase Field Models in a unique event, fostering exchange of knowledge, expertise and new ideas. The combination of many young PhD students and senior researchers encouraged lively discussions on state-of-the-art topics of research. A group photo of a part of the participants is shown below.

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The CISM advanced course "Crack Initiation and Failure in Complex Structures: Finite Fracture Mechanics and Related Fracture Models" will be delivered from June 09 to 13, 2025. The course is organized by Prof. Aurelien Doitrand from the Univ. of Lyon, France and the co-chair of TC16, Prof. Vladislav Mantič from the Univ . of Seville. We hope to see many of the fracture mechanics community members attending this advanced course. Please follow the CISM homepage ( LINK ) for more information that will be posted towards end of 2024. Finally, with great sadness we were informed that the founding co-chairman of TC16, Dr. Dominique Leguillon of the Sorbonne University in Paris, passed away unexpectedly on December 27, 2023, in Evreux, France. A memorial lecture overviewing his remarkable scientific life was presented at the NewFrac workshop in Porto and will be published in a forthcoming issue of Int J Fracture .

Prof. Dominique Leguillon (photo provided by Mrs Catherine Drouet).

Zohar Yosibash Vladislav Mantic

TC21: HYDROGEN EMBRITTLEMENT AND TRANSPORT - ESIS TC21 chairs Milos B. Djukic, Tom Depover, and Motomichi Koyama, together with Frank Cheng, Lívia Cupertino Malheiros, Masoud Moshtaghi, and Birhan Sefer will organize the upcoming TC21 Thematic/Special Symposium with a round table and panel discussions: ”Hydrogen embrittlement in metallic materials: pipeline transport, hydrogen storage, and other applications” ( LINK ) within the framework of the 24 th European Conference on Fracture - ECF24 ( LINK ), August 26 - 30, 2024, Zagreb, Croatia. More than 100 abstracts are submitted for the ECF24 TC21 Thematic/Special Symposium. 13 Invited speakers-esteemed hydrogen embrittlement researchers will present their work during ECF24 TC21 Thematic/Special Symposium: 1. Prof. Gilbert Hénaff, Institut Pprime, Université de Poitiers, ISAE-ENSMA, France, 2. Prof. Akinobu Shibata, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan 3. Prof. Hiroyuki Toda, Kyushu University, Japan 4. Prof. Xavier Feaugas, Université de La Rochelle, France, 5. Prof. Zhiliang Zhang, Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU, Norway,

6. Prof. Yuxing Li, China University of Petroleum (East), China, 7. Dr. Anqing Fu, CNPC Tubular Goods Research Institute, China, 8. Prof. Hong Luo, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China,

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9. Prof. Hisao Matsunaga, Kyushu University, Japan 10. Prof. Yann Charles, LSPM-CNRS, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France, 11. Prof. Frank Cheng, University of Calgary, Canada, 12. Dr. Alfredo Zafra, University of Oxford, UK 13. Prof. Masoud Moshtaghi, LUT University, Finland.

- ESIS TC21 chairs Milos B. Djukic and Tom Depover, together with May Martin and Hisao Matsunaga, completed the special issue (SI) of Engineering Failure Analysis (EFA) journal entitled “Understanding Environmentally Hydrogen Assisted Cracking of Metals: Key Towards a Sustainable Future” ( LINK ). The SI Editorial: “Understanding environmentally hydrogen assisted cracking of metals: Key towards a sustainable future“ is also published ( LINK ). This special issue contains 35 selected papers presented at the 5th International Conference on Structural Integrity, ICSI 2023 ( LINK ), held in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, August 29–31, 2023 within the TC21 Thematic/Special Symposium: “Hydrogen Embrittlement of metals: Problems and solutions” with a round table and panel discussion ( LINK ), organized by Milos B. Djukic, Frank Cheng, Motomichi Koyama, Tom Depover, Antonio Alvaro and Emilio Martínez Pañeda. In addition to selected papers presented during ISCI 2023, several additional invited papers by hydrogen embrittlement experts are also included in this special issue. We hope this collection of 35 articles serves as a benchmark for the state of the art, representing a broad range of topics related to hydrogen embrittlement. Also, this SI can spark new research ideas by enabling the community to identify commonalities or research gaps in our current understanding and thereby accelerate progress toward technological solutions to the hydrogen embrittlement problem .

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- ESIS TC21 chair Emilio Martínez Pañeda organized Oxford-EPRI Workshop in Hydrogen Embrittlement, June 23-26, 2024, Oxford, UK ( LINK ), supported by ESIS TC21 Hydrogen embrittlement and transport. The workshop hosted 40 invited speakers, which gave extended talks. All ESIS TC21 chairs, including Milos B Djukic, Antonio Alvaro, Tom Depover, Emilio Martínez Pañeda, and Motomichi Koyama, were invited speakers. It was a real pleasure and honor to see friends and colleagues from the hydrogen embrittlement community and exchange thoughts about recent breakthroughs in understanding complex hydrogen embrittlement phenomena in metallic materials. The workshop was a major success.

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Participant of the Oxford-EPRI Workshop in Hydrogen Embrittlement, Oxford, UK. From left to right: Tom Depover (ESIS TC21), Prof. Emilio Martínez Pañeda (ESIS TC21), Prof. Milos B Djukic (ESIS TC21), Dr. Leonardo Uller, Dr. Alfredo Zafra, Prof. Emeritus Andrej Atrens, Dr. Antonio Alvaro (ESIS TC21). With the permission of all persons in the photo. - ESIS TC21 chair Milos B. Djukic, together with Ankit Sharma organizing the ongoing special issue of the Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology on “Automation In Sustainable Welding Manufacturing” ( LINK ). The manuscript submission deadline is 31 December 2024. One of the topics of this SI is Corrosion and hydrogen embrittlement in welds. - ESIS TC21 chair Milos B. Djukic, together with Arun Devaraj and Wendy Gu, organizing the ongoing special issue (SI) Collection of npj Materials Degradation journal entitled “Hydrogen Embrittlement” ( LINK ). The manuscript submission deadline is extended until 07 November 2024. - The ESIS TC21 Technical Committee Meeting was held during the Oxford-EPRI Workshop in Hydrogen Embrittlement, June 23-26, 2024, Oxford, UK ( LINK ). - ESIS TC21 chair Tom Depover is organizing the International Conference on Metals and Hydrogen, SteelyHydrogen Conference, 14-16 October 2025, Ghent, Belgium ( LINK ). This conference is supported by ESIS TC21 Hydrogen embrittlement and transport. The abstract submission deadline is 30th September 2024. Given today’s interest in hydrogen as an energetic vector, and the maturity of some technologies becoming reality, the SteelyHydrogen forum in 2025 will again pay specific attention to the role of hydrogen in the global energy transition. Particular focus will be on material challenges. - ESIS TC21 chairs Milos B. Djukic, Tom Depover, and Emilio Martínez Pañeda are members of the Technical Committee of the "Hydrogen in Materials" conference ( LINK ) to be held on June 4-6, 2025, at La Rochelle University, France The conference is organized by ASTM International, ASTM Committee F07.04 on Hydrogen Embrittlement and supported by ESIS TC21 Hydrogen embrittlement and transport. The abstract submission deadline is August 31, 2024. The Conference on Hydrogen in Materials: 1. Co-chairs: - Dr. Jamaa Bouhattate, La Rochelle University, France - Salim V. Brahimy P.Eng. Ph.D., Industrial Fasteners Institute & McGill University, Canada 2. Technical Committee:

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