PSI - Issue 16

Hryhoriy Nykyforchyn et al. / Procedia Structural Integrity 16 (2019) 1–2 Hryhoriy Nykyforchyn, Ihor Dmytrakh, Olha Zvirko / StructuralIntegrity Procedia 00 (2019) 000 – 000

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engineers of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, higher education institutions and industrial enterprises maintain scientific contacts with other related scientific societies of Ukraine and international organizations, in particular with the European Structural Integrity Society (ESIS). The Society presents Ukraine in the ESIS and participates actively in the three ESIS Technical Committees: TC10 Environmentally Assisted Cracking, TC13 Education and Training, and TC17 Non-Destructive Evaluation. The FMSI 2019 brought together leading scientists, researchers and research scholars to share their experience, research results and scientific ideas regarding key areas of fracture and damage mechanics, structural integrity assessment and maintenance. It has become an interactive platform for discussion of recent advances, trends and practical challenges in the field of fracture mechanics and structural integrity. Over 60 participants from Italy, Spain, Greek, France, USA, Canada, Poland, Hungary, Portugal, China, India, Mexico, Argentina and Ukraine attended the FMSI 2019 Conference. The programme consisted of four main sections:  Fracture and Strength of Materials (four sessions);  Environmentally Assisted Cracking (two sessions);  Non-Destructive Evaluation (two sessions);  Workshop on Applied Mechanics. Accepted extended abstracts were published as Book of Abstracts and were available during the Conference. This special issue contains the full-text conference’s papers accepted for publishing after the review. The efforts of the authors and of the colleagues that volunteered for the review process are kindly acknowledged. We hope that this issue will be interesting for scientists and researches in the field of the fracture mechanics, materials science and structural integrity as well for the lecturers of high schools, and post-graduate students of the corresponding specialties. We also hope that it will be useful for experts and engineers in the industrial sectors, such as the energy generation, machinery, transport, chemical industry, civil engineering, etc.

Hryhoriy Nykyforchyn Ihor Dmytrakh Olha Zvirko