PSI - Issue 61

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Procedia Structural Integrity 61 (2024) 1–2 Structural Integrity Procedia 00 (2024) 000–000

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3rd International Workshop on Plasticity, Damage and Fracture of Engineering Materials (IWPDF 2023) Editorial Tuncay Yalc¸inkaya a, ∗ a Department of Aerospace Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara 06800, Tu¨rkiye

Keywords: Plasticity; Damage; Micromechanics; Fracture Mechanics

This special issue features a curated selection of research papers presented at the 3rd International Workshop on Plasticity, Damage, and Fracture of Engineering Materials. Hosted by the Middle East Technical University in Istanbul, Tu¨rkiye, from October 4th to 6th, 2023, the workshop welcomed contributions from both in-person and virtual attendees. Alongside the live broadcast of in-person poster and oral presentations to online participants, virtual pre-recorded contributions were uploaded to a YouTube channel prior to the meeting. The workshop primarily centered on three main subjects: plasticity, damage, and fracture. Both computational and experimental studies were presented, with a focus on enhancing the understanding of how material microstructure, loading, and environmental conditions influence the deformation, degradation, and failure of engineering materials. The workshop achieved remarkable success, featuring 6 keynote lectures, 49 oral, 15 poster, 42 pre-recorded presentations, and a total of 110 in-person participants. 301 co-authors from 37 countries submitted over 100 abstracts, contributing to the book of abstracts. Social activities, such as a welcome reception, a private Bosphorus boat tour, and a gala dinner, were arranged to foster a welcoming atmosphere for workshop participants to engage in scientific discussions. Only the papers that are accepted after a peer-review process are published in this special issue. The workshop’s exceptional scientific caliber was established through the outstanding keynote lectures delivered by Prof. Fionn Dunne (Imperial College London, UK) on stress redistribution in dwell fatigue, by Prof. Mingwang Fu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) on damage and fracture in deformation of materials and deformation-based manufacturing, by Prof. Somnath Ghosh (Johns Hopkins University, USA) on parametrically upscaled constitutive model and crack nucleation model for fatigue predictions, by Prof. Anne-Marie Habraken (Uni versity of Lie`ge, Belgium) on the simulations of the directed energy deposition process, by Prof. Benjamin Kluse mann (Leuphana University Lu¨neburg, Germany) on fatigue crack propagation in laser peened materials, and by Prof. Alexander M. Korsunsky (University of Oxford, U.K.) on spatially resolved eigenstrain analysis. We extend our sincere appreciation to all the keynote speakers for their invaluable contributions to the workshop. The workshop organization was greatly facilitated by the kind, attentive, and e ffi cient assistance provided by the members of the organizing committee: ˙Ilbilge Umay Aydiner, Orhun Bulut, Can Erdogan, Tevfik Ozan Fenercioglu, Enes Gu¨nay, Aptullah Karakas, Berkehan Tatli, Izzet Erkin U¨ nsal, and Hande Vural. I would like to express sincere gratitude for the tremendous support from the main workshop sponsor Repkon Machine and Tool Industry and Trade Inc., whose invaluable contributions have made this conference possible. I also extend my thanks to the European

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2452-3216 © 2024 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 scientific committee of IWPDF 2023 Chairman 10.1016/j.prostr.2024.06.001 2210-7843 © 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http: // creativecommons.org / licenses / by-nc-nd / 4.0 / ) Peer-review under responsibility of the scientific committee of IWPDF 2023.