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Procedia Structural Integrity 47 (2023) 1–2

27th International Conference on Fracture and Structural Integrity (IGF27) Preface Filippo Berto a , Vittorio Di Cocco b , Giuseppe Andrea Ferro c , Francesco Iacoviello b *, Stefano Natali a , Daniela Pilone a , Sabrina Vantadori d

a "Sapienza" Università di Roma, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Chimica, Materiali, Ambiente, Italy b Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Meccanica, Italy c Politecnico di Torino, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Strutturale, Edile e Geotecnica, Italy d Università di Parma, Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Architettura, Italy

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Keywords: Preface, Fracture, Structural Integrity.

1. Preface The Italian Group of Fracture (IGF) is a cultural association devoted to: (i) spreading and promoting works and researches about fracture phenomena, even forming workgroups; (ii) promoting all the activities concerning the development of materials and structure testing standards; (iii) cooperating with foreign associations with the same intents; (iv) organizing meetings, workshops, conferences, debates and courses about fracture phenomena and (v) publishing meetings proceedings, news, journals. In the first months after the Covid-19 pandemia, we organized the IGF26 in Turin (May 2021) with a hybrid approach. The event was a success with 163 presentations from 28 different countries, but many presentation were held in remote and only some participants joined the event in presence. The IGF27 was held in February 2023 always with a hybrid approach, both in Rome, at the Engineering Faculty in via Eudossiana, and on-line. The participants number was even higher than IGF26 (more than 200), with a high

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2452-3216 © 2023 The Authors. Published by ELSEVIER B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0) Peer-review under responsibility of the IGF27 chairpersons 10.1016/j.prostr.2023.06.033