ESIS Newsletter December 2025

National Committees CROATIA

The 8th International Conference on Structural Integrity and Durability (ICSID 2025) and the Summer School “Fatigue and Fracture Modeling and Analysis” were organized by the Croatian Structural Integrity and Durability Group and the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture of the University of Zagreb, in Dubrovnik, Croatia, from September 15 - 19, 2025. The events were endorsed by the European Structural Integrity Society. ICSID 2025 and the Summer School were held at the Centre for Advanced Academic Studies in the city of Dubrovnik. The magnificent old building of the Centre for Advanced Academic Studies (CAAS) is situated in the centre of Dubrovnik on the Croatian Adriatic Coast, in the vicinity of the most prominent historical places of the Old Town.

Centre for Advanced Academic Studies in Dubrovnik (CAAS). Summer School “Fatigue and Fracture Modeling and Analysis” , was organized prior to the ICSID 2025 conference, from September 15 to 16, 2025. Summer School Organizing Committee Željko Božić (Croatia), Chair Siegfried Schmauder (Germany) Reinhard Pippan (Austria) Youshi Hong (China) Richard E. Clegg (Australia) The Summer School provided an opportunity for students, researchers and engineers from academia and industry to get acquainted with fundamental aspects of fracture mechanics, recent trends in practical applications of fatigue and fracture models, and advanced approaches such as multiscale materials modelling. Distinguished scientists in the field, gave lectures on experimental and numerical techniques for modelling, analysis and assessment of damaged components and structures. Summer School Agenda Sep 15, 2025: Multiscale Materials Modeling, Siegfried Schmauder Sep 15, 2025: Intrinsic and extrinsic fatigue crack propagation mechanisms and its impact on life time prediction, Reinhard Pippan Sep 16, 2025: Very-high-cycle fatigue of metallic alloys and Numerous Cyclic Pressing model, Youshi Hong Sep 16, 2025: The Practice of Engineering Failure Analysis, Richard Clegg

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