Issue 30

Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, 30 (2014); International Journal of the Italian Group of Fracture

Editor-in-Chief Francesco Iacoviello Associate Editors Alfredo Navarro

(Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Italy)

(Escuela Superior de Ingenieros, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain) (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers, Paris, France)

Thierry Palin-Luc

Luca Susmel John Yates

(University of Sheffield, UK) (University of Manchester, UK)

Guest Editors Paulo De Castro Manuel de Freitas

(Universidade do Porto, Portugal)

(EDAM MIT, Portugal)

Antonio Martín-Meizoso

(Universidad de Navarra, Spain) (Universidad de Salamanca, Spain)

Jesús Toribio

Advisory Editorial Board Harm Askes

(University of Sheffield, Italy) (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) (Università di Parma, Italy) (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) (University of Plymouth, UK)

Alberto Carpinteri Andrea Carpinteri Donato Firrao M. Neil James Gary Marquis Ashok Saxena Darrell F. Socie Shouwen Yu Ramesh Talreja David Taylor Robert O. Ritchie Cetin Morris Sonsino Editorial Board Stefano Beretta Nicola Bonora Roberto Citarella Claudio Dalle Donne Manuel de Freitas Vittorio Di Cocco Giuseppe Ferro Tommaso Ghidini Paolo Leonetti Carmine Maletta Liviu Marsavina Daniele Dini

(Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)

(University of California, USA)

(Galgotias University, Greater Noida, UP, India; University of Arkansas, USA)

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

(Tsinghua University, China) (Fraunhofer LBF, Germany) (Texas A&M University, USA) (University of Dublin, Ireland)

(Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

(Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Italy)

(Università di Salerno, Italy) (EADS, Munich, Germany) (EDAM MIT, Portugal)

(Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Italy)

(Imperial College, UK)

(Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

(European Space Agency - ESA-ESRIN) (Università della Calabria, Italy) (Università della Calabria, Italy) (University of Timisoara, Romania) (University of Porto, Portugal)

Lucas Filipe Martins da Silva

Hisao Matsunaga

(Kyushu University, Japan) (University of Sheffield, UK) (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) (Università di Parma, Italy) (Università di Messina, Italy) (Università di Brescia, Italy) (Università di Bologna, Italy) (Università di Parma, Italy)

Mahmoud Mostafavi

Marco Paggi Oleg Plekhov

(Russian Academy of Sciences, Ural Section, Moscow Russian Federation)

Alessandro Pirondi Giacomo Risitano Roberto Roberti Marco Savoia Andrea Spagnoli Charles V. White

(Kettering University, Michigan,USA)

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