Issue 67

Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, 67 (2024); International Journal of the Italian Group of Fracture

FIS news

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ear friends, after obtaining the WoS Impact Factor, the number of submissions increased dramatically. Therefore, it was necessary to re-organize the Journal structure. First of all, we defined new Sections. The updated list is now the following: 1) Analytical, computational and physical models; 2) Damage mechanics; 3) Environmentally assisted fracture; 4) Failure analysis and forensic engineering; 5) Fatigue and fracture of metallic alloys; 6) Fatigue and fracture of non-metallic materials; 7) Integrity of materials and structures. Then, a new Section Editors team has been activated and we also renewed the Editorial Board. With this little “revolution” we hope we will be able to reduce the reviewing times and further improve the journal quality. Finally, as you can see in the papers published in this issue, we also modified the papers layout, increasing the visibility of the Visual Abstract. Now, the written version of the abstract is still available in the paper web page, but in the pdf there is a direct link to the Visual Abstract. This new layout has nice consequences on the browsable version of the journal, and we hope you will appreciate this new approach! We are grateful for the activity of all the Sections Editors and all the Editorial Board members who helped the journal up to the last issue … without their help and their time it would have been impossible to achieve the great results we obtained up to now! I wish to remember the next IGF event: The 8th International Conference on Crack Paths (CP2024) . The Conference will be held in Rimini (Italy) and online in September 10-12, 2024 (https://www.crackpaths.org). This Conference follows the Conferences in Parma in 2003 and 2006, Vicenza in 2009, Gaeta in 2012, Ferrara in 2015, Verona in 2018 and online in 2021. Members of different industrial laboratories and scientists from all over the world are invited to contribute with presentations on any of the following topics (in the case of both static and fatigue loading): - Experimental Determination of CP - Theoretical Prediction of CP - Integrity Assessments based on CP Evaluation - Microscopic Aspects of CP - CP of Surface Cracks - CP of Short Cracks - Effect of Large Scale Yielding on CP - Effect of Material Inhomogeneities on CP - Effect of Non-Proportional Cyclic Loading on CP - Effect of Environmental Conditions on CP - CP in Advanced Materials - Laboratory Methods of Controlling CP - In-Service Inspection of CP - Application of CP Concepts and Data in Design - CP in Additive Manufacturing Processes - Industrial Application of CP Concepts and Data

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