Issue 35

Fracture and Structural Integrity, 35 (2016); ISSN 1971-9883

…. ECF21 is more and more near!!

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ear friends, just an update about the most important event that IGF is organizing: the 21 st European Conference on Fracture, under the auspices of the European Structural Integrity Society. This event will be held in Catania, Italy (June 20 24, 2015) and, according to the ECFs events tradition, will allows to hundred of researchers to meet in the wonderful land of Sicily. I don’t want to bother you describing the sea, the culture, the food, the people of Sicily … join us and you will see by your own!!! In these lines I wish only to underline few details: - Abstract summission deadline has been postponed: 15.01.2016; - Proceedings will be published in Procedia Structural Integrity (Elsevier); Templates are available in the ECF21 website; - Special issues will be published in Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Engineering Failure Analysis, International Journal of Fatigue and Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics; - A Summer School titled “Understanding and modelling fracture and fatigue of materials and structures” will be organized before the ECF event (June 18-19, 2015) You can find all the details in the ECF21 website www.ecf21.eu …. Looking forward to meeting you in Catania!!!

Francesco Iacoviello F&IS Chief Editor

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