Issue 42

Fracture and Structural Integrity, 42 (2017); ISSN 1971-9883

Editor-in-Chief Francesco Iacoviello

(Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Italy)

Associate Editors Alfredo Navarro

(Escuela Superior de Ingenieros, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain)

Thierry Palin-Luc

(Arts et Metiers ParisTech, France ) (University of Sheffield, UK) (University of Manchester, UK)

Luca Susmel John Yates

Guest Editors ( “ Mechanical Fatigue of Metals”) J.A.F.O. Correia

(University of Porto, Portugal) (University of Porto, Portugal ) (University of Oviedo, Spain) (University of Oviedo, Spain)

A.M.P. De Jesus

M. Calvente

A. Fernández-Canteli

Advisory Editorial Board Harm Askes

(University of Sheffield, Italy) (Tel Aviv University, Israel) (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) (Università di Parma, Italy) (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

Leslie Banks-Sills Alberto Carpinteri Andrea Carpinteri Emmanuel Gdoutos Youshi Hong M. Neil James Gary Marquis Ashok Saxena Darrell F. Socie Shouwen Yu Ramesh Talreja David Taylor Robert O. Ritchie Cetin Morris Sonsino Donato Firrao

(Democritus University of Thrace, Greece) (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

(University of Plymouth, UK)

(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)

Editorial Board Stefano Beretta

(Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Filippo Berto Nicola Bonora

(Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) (Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Italy)

Elisabeth Bowman

(University of Sheffield) (Università di Parma, Italy) (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) (University of Porto, Portugal) (EADS, Munich, Germany)

Luca Collini

Mauro Corrado

José António Correia Claudio Dalle Donne Manuel de Freitas

(EDAM MIT, Portugal)

Abílio de Jesus

(University of Porto, Portugal)

Vittorio Di Cocco

(Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Italy)

Daniele Dini

(Imperial College, UK)

Giuseppe Ferro Tommaso Ghidini

(Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

(European Space Agency - ESA-ESRIN) (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain) (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)

Eugenio Giner

Stavros Kourkoulis

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