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Procedia Structural Integrity 23 (2019) 1–2

9th International Conference on Materials Structure and Micromechanics of Fracture Editorial Jaroslav Pokluda* Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic This issue of the Procedia Structural Integrity contains papers from the 9 th International Conference on Materials Structure and Micromechanics of Fracture (MSMF9) that was held in Brno, Czech Republic, June 26-28, 2019. The series of MSMF conferences was established in Brno, June 1995. The basic idea was to create a periodical international forum for multiscale approaches in fatigue and fracture of materials in the middle Europe. Therefore, respective sections focused on atomistic models, models based on crystal defects, numerical and statistical continuum models, advanced experimental methods and relationships between microstructure and mechanical properties appeared during the MSMF2 conference in 1998. The power of atomistic, mesoscopic and multiscale approaches in fracture and fatigue was then demonstrated by participants at next MSMF meetings organized in Brno in 2001 - 2016. Many world-leading experts in the field of fracture and fatigue attended the MSMF conferences as plenary speakers. The conference MSMF9 has successfully carried on the tradition of previous conferences with 188 scientists from 27 countries all over the world who presented 180 contributions on fundamental relations between structural and mechanical characteristics of materials. There were five invited plenary talks delivered by Prof. Reinhard Pippan (Leoben, AT), Prof. Malcolm Neal James (Plymouth, UK), Prof. Takeshi Ogami (Tenesee, USA), Prof. Elias Eifantis ( Thessaloniki, GR) and Prof. Ludvík Kunz (Brno, CZ). T he 13 th workshop of the ESIS Technical Committee on Micromechanisms (TC2) was organized by Prof. A. Jivkov (Manchester, UK) as a sub-symposium of the conference. After a peer-review procedure, as many as 103 papers based on atomistic, mesoscopic, macroscopic and multiscale approaches were included in the PSI volume devoted to MSMF9. I would like to thank all the members

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2452-3216 © 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) Peer-review under responsibility of the scientific committee of the IC MSMF organizers.

2452-3216 © 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) Peer-review under responsibility of the scientific committee of the ICMSMF organizers 10.1016/j.prostr.2020.01.053