ESIS Newsletter December 2025

TC18: STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY OF WELDED JOINTS

TC18 organized different activities in 2025. Dedicated successful symposia have been organized during the following conferences: • IGF-Medfract 2025, held in Catania (September). • BECCSI 2025 conference, held in Belgrade (November). TC18 awarded the Heinz Neuber medal to Jose Correia and Sabrina Vantadori for their significant contribution to the design of structures in presence of defects, notches and geometrical discontinuities. The Les Pook medal was awarded to Filippo Berto for his strong contribution to the three-dimensional stress fields near cracks and notches. In addition, a symposium will also be organized at ESIAM26 together with T15. In fact, TC18 is deeply involved in the organization of the next ESIAM conference that will be held very soon in February 18-20 th 2026 in Vicenza, Italy. All the information is already reported on the website of the conference ( LINK ) and the submission of abstracts is still open for the event. We are looking forward to meet you numerous there.

Filippo Berto Paolo Ferro Aleksandar Sedmak

TC19: DATA-DRIVEN METHODS AND MACHINE LEARNING APPLIED TO STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY

The ESIS Technical Committee 19 is pleased to announce the launch of the organization of a new conference on Artificial Intelligence and Structural Integrity (AISI, Artificial Intelligence & Structural Integrity) , potentially scheduled for early 2027 and dedicated to exploring the central question: Can artificial intelligence effectively support structural design and ensure structural integrity, and how can AI-based methods contribute to this goal? This initiative follows the successful TC19 symposium at ECF24 in Zagreb, which featured six presentations, and its significant growth at BECCSI 2025 in Belgrade, where the number of contributions increased to twenty, demonstrating the rapidly rising interest in AI-driven approaches within the structural integrity community. The conference is expected to bring together researchers, engineers, industry specialists and software developers to discuss how AI, machine learning and data driven techniques are reshaping the design, assessment, and monitoring of structures. Key topics will include AI-assisted structural design, predictive models for damage, fatigue and fracture, digital twins and intelligent structural health monitoring, as well as the reliability, validation and explainability of AI-based tools. The event aims to assess the real potential of AI to enhance engineering decision making, identify limitations and challenges, and outline future methodologies and skills required for its integration into structural engineering practice. This new conference series is expected to become an international reference point for all researchers involved in the application of AI to structural integrity. Andrea Tridello

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