PSI - Issue 79

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Procedia Structural Integrity 79 (2026) 524–525

28th International Conference on Fracture and Structural Integrity - 3rd Mediterranean Conference on Fracture and Structural Integrity Preface SabrinaVantadori a , Francesco Iacoviello b *, Giuseppe Andrea Ferro c , Filippo Berto d a Università di Parma, Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Architettura, 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 "Sapienza" Università di Roma, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Chimica, Materiali, Ambiente, Italy b Department of Mechanical Engineering, © 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 IGF28 - MedFract3 organizers Keywords: Gruppo Italiano frattura; Conference organization; IGF YouTube channel. 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; (v) publishing meetings proceedings, news, journals. Since its foundation in 1982, IGF organized dozens of national and international conferences, workshops and summer schools, both in presence and, more recently, in remote or in a blended version. Since 2007, IGF videorecorded all the events, publishing the video recordings of the presentations in a dedicated YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@IGF_YT), associating a DOI to each video presentation and, also, collected them in ISBN-numbered books available through ESIS-PH (https://www.esis-ph.eu/). The IGF28-MedFract3 was as a joint conference of two different periodical events:

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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 IGF28 - MedFract3 organizers 10.1016/j.prostr.2026.01.087