PSI - Issue 79

Sabrina Vantadori et al. / Procedia Structural Integrity 79 (2026) 524–525

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- IGF28, 28th International Conference on Fracture and Structural Integrity, that is the biennial event organized by IGF. In its first issues, the event was in Italian and dedicated to the Italian IGF members. In the last years, it was transformed in an international conference with English as main language, but the events were always held in Italy; - MedFract3, 3rd Mediterranean Conference on Fracture and Structural Integrity, is the third edition of an event that is organized every three years. The first edition was held in Athens, in cooperation with the Greek Group of Fracture. The second edition was held in Catania and online. This conference was a resounding success, drawing over 170 participants from 30 different countries. The program featured four distinct invited lectures: - Fretting fatigue: our recent developments on the use of Artificial Neural Networks and on the conduct of complex tests (José Alexander Araújo); - Mean stress effect, stress ratio R in Fatigue Crack Growth Rate description - from Dimensional Analysis to generalization of Paris law (Grzegorz Lesiuk); - The effect of laser induced residual stress on fatigue properties of titanium alloys (Oleg Plekhov); - Fatigue short crack growth prediction of additively manufactured alloy based on ensemble learning (Guian Qian). Five different thematic symposia took place: - Defects in additive manufactured materials and their effect on fracture and fatigue performance. Chairs: S. Vantadori, F. Berto; - Artificial Intelligence and Physics-based Numerical Methods for Fracture and Fatigue Damaging Processes. Chairs: A. Tridello, E. Salvati; - Structural Integrity of Solid-State Welded & Additively Manufactured Metals. Chairs: E. Salvati, S. Bagherifard; - Durability of structural joints: experimental, theoretical and numerical approaches. Chairs: A. Califano, G. Cricrì, V. Giannella, R. Sepe; - Energy Methods for Fatigue Assessment. Chairs: D. Santonocito, P. Foti, G. Risitano, F. Berto. During the conference, IGF Honorary Membership was awarded to José Alexander Araújo, Grzegorz Lesiuk, Oleg Plekhov, and Guian Qian. Additionally, Sabrina Vantadori received the Manson-Coffin IGF Medal , and Giuseppe Andrea Ferro was honored with the IGF Award of Merit . According to the IGF tradition, all the video recordings of the presentations are now available in the IGF YouTube channel and are collected in an ISBN-numbered book available through ESIS-PH. YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT1-2PyZ6QrJH2JaFjeMogheK_CEZFziY Presentations Book: https://www.esis-ph.eu/index.php/eph/catalog/book/268. Looking forward to meeting all of you in the next IGF conferences.