PSI - Issue 47

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participation in presence (more than 50%) and 187 presentations. The presentations were scheduled in 13 sessions, covering a wide range of topics related to theory, modelling and experiments of fracture and structural integrity phenomena. Two plenary lectures were carried out by Aleksandar Sedmak (University of Belgrade, Serbia) with the title “Numerical simulation of fatigue crack growth”, and by Stavros Kourkoulis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece), with the title “Quantifying elastic contact stresses on the lips of “mathematical” cracks”. During the event, Aleksandar Sedmak was awarded with the “2023 Manson-Coffin IGF medal” and Stavros Kourkoulis was awarded with the “2023 Paolo Lazzarin IGF Medal”. In addition, Francesco Iacoviello was awarded with the “2023 IGF Award of Merit”. According to the IGF tradition, all the presentations were video-recorded and they are now available in the IGF YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT1-2PyZ6QrKcn6cpE_CJwxGiTviYuFgo). This special issue of Procedia Structural Integrity collects more than one hundred and ten papers related to the presentations given during the IGF27 conference. The number and the quality of the papers are an important sign of

the of the good health of the fracture and structural integrity community. We hope to meet you soon in presence in the upcoming IGF events!