Issue 31

Fracture and Structural Integrity, 31 (2015); ISSN 1971-9883

Editor-in-Chief Francesco Iacoviello Associate Editors Alfredo Navarro

(Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Italy)

(Escuela Superior de Ingenieros, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain) (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers, Paris, France)

Thierry Palin-Luc

Luca Susmel John Yates

(University of Sheffield, UK) (University of Manchester, UK)

Guest Editors Abílio Manuel Pinho de Jesus

(Universidade do Porto, Portugal)

Manuel de Freitas

(EDAM MIT, Portugal)

Advisory Editorial Board Harm Askes

(University of Sheffield, Italy) (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) (Università di Parma, Italy) (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) (University of Plymouth, UK)

Alberto Carpinteri Andrea Carpinteri Donato Firrao M. Neil James Gary Marquis Ashok Saxena Darrell F. Socie Shouwen Yu Ramesh Talreja David Taylor Robert O. Ritchie Cetin Morris Sonsino Editorial Board Stefano Beretta Elisabeth Bowman Roberto Citarella Claudio Dalle Donne Manuel de Freitas Vittorio Di Cocco Giuseppe Ferro Tommaso Ghidini Paolo Leonetti Carmine Maletta Liviu Marsavina Hisao Matsunaga Mahmoud Mostafavi Alessandro Pirondi Giacomo Risitano Roberto Roberti Marco Savoia Andrea Spagnoli Charles V. White Nicola Bonora Daniele Dini Marco Paggi Oleg Plekhov

(Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)

(University of California, USA)

(Galgotias University, Greater Noida, UP, India; University of Arkansas, USA)

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

(Tsinghua University, China) (Fraunhofer LBF, Germany) (Texas A&M University, USA) (University of Dublin, Ireland)

(Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

(Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Italy)

(University of Sheffield) (Università di Salerno, Italy) (EADS, Munich, Germany) (EDAM MIT, Portugal)

(Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Italy)

(Imperial College, UK)

(Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

(European Space Agency - ESA-ESRIN) (Università della Calabria, Italy) (Università della Calabria, Italy) (University of Timisoara, Romania) (University of Porto, Portugal)

Lucas Filipe Martins da Silva

(Kyushu University, Japan) (University of Sheffield, UK) (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) (Università di Parma, Italy) (Università di Messina, Italy) (Università di Brescia, Italy) (Università di Bologna, Italy) (Università di Parma, Italy)

(Russian Academy of Sciences, Ural Section, Moscow Russian Federation)

(Kettering University, Michigan,USA)

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