PSI - Issue 71

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Procedia Structural Integrity 71 (2025) 1–3

5 th International Structural Integrity Conference & Exhibition (SICE 2024) Preface

Atul Ramesh Ballal a , Jatin Bhatt a , Dilip Peshwe a* , Rajesh Khatirkar a , Raghu Prakash b a Department of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur 440 010, India. b Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, 600 036, India.

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Structural Integrity assessment and assurance for safe operation of safety critical structures, components is a multi disciplinary field spread over several domains of engineering mechanics, materials science, material processing, design, manufacturing, assembly, testing, certification apart from understanding the use of such systems in the hands of the operator, given the diverse environmental conditions and its interactions. Structural integrity is crucial for strategic stakeholders in sectors like transportation, defense, energy, civil and marine infrastructure, and many more. The Indian Structural Integrity Society (InSIS) has been organizing biennial Structural Integrity Conference and Exhibition (SICE) conferences aimed at deliberating the state-of-the-art research findings as well as professional networking since 2016. Previous SICE conferences were held at Bengaluru (2016), Hyderabad (2018 and 2022), and Mumbai (2020 – online mode). A conference publication which is a compilation of peer reviewed manuscripts presented at the SICE conference is brought out as special issues or edited volumes. This special issue brought out in association with of the publishers of Procedia Structural Integrity presents 64 selected peer reviewed papers from the many presentations made during the 5 th International Structural Integrity Conference and Exhibition (SICE) that was held at Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT) Nagpur, India during October 22-24, 2024. SICE 2024 received a very good response with over 250 delegates from several leading industries, academic and R&D

2452-3216 © 2025 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 SICE 2024 organizers 10.1016/j.prostr.2025.08.001