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The 1 st Mediterranean Conference on Fracture and Structural Integrity, MedFract1 Preface Filippo Berto a , Dimitrios Karalekas b , Dimos Triantis c , Giuseppe Ferro d , T st it rr f r r t r tr t r l I t rit , r t ilippo Berto a , i itri r l b , i ri ti c , i rr d ,

Francesco Iacoviello *,e , Stavros Kourkoulis f Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, Norway a University of Piraeus, Greece b University of West Attica, Greece c Politecnico di Torino, Italy d Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, DiCeM, Italy e* National Technical University of Athens, Greece f r Ia iell *,e , t r r li f or egian niversity of Science and Technology, T , or ay a niversity of iraeus, reece b niversity of est Attica, reece c olitecnico di Torino, Italy d niversità di assino e del Lazio eridionale, i e , Italy e* ational Technical niversity of thens, reece f

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2452-3216 © 2020 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 MedFract1 organizers 10.1016/j.prostr.2020.06.001