PSI - Issue 41

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Procedia Structural Integrity 41 (2022) 1–2

© 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0) Peer-review under responsibility of the MedFract2Guest Editors. © 2022 The Authors. Published by ELSEVIER B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0) Peer-review under responsibility of the MedFract2Guest Editors. Keywords: Preface, Fracture, Structural Integrity 1. Preface At the end of February 2020, the Greek Society of Experimental Mechanics of Materials (GSEMM) and the Italian Group on Fracture (IGF) , respectively, the Greek and the Italian branches of the European Structural Integrity Society (ESIS), organized in Athens the “ 1st Mediterranean Conference on Fracture and Structural Integrity, MedFract1 ” ( MedFract1 ). It was a memorable event, as it was first event in blended version we ever organized, with some participants that were already locked down due to COVID-19 pandemia. After the MedFract1 , for almost two years, many events were organized in remote version by the national groups and by ESIS. At the end of 2021, the Algerian Group of Fracture Mechanics and Energy (AGFME) , the Greek Society of Experimental Mechanics of Materials (GSEMM) , the Italian Group of Fracture (IGF) and the Sociedad Espanola de Integridad Estructural - Grupo Espanol de Fractura (SEIE-GEF) decided to organize the second edition of the MedFract, the “ 2nd Mediterranean Conference on Fracture and Structural Integrity, MedFract2 ”. Considering that the COVID19 problems were still present, the event was organized in blended version, in Catania and on web. The event was undoubtefully a success. In the first edition there were about 60 participants from 15 Thi 2nd Mediterranean Conference on Fracture and Structural Integrity Preface Filippo Berto a , Vittorio Di Cocco b , Francisco Galvez c , Stavros Kourkoulis d , Francesco Iacoviello b *, Mohammed Hadj Meliani e a Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway b Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Cassino, Italy c Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Fi e d National Technical University of Athens, Greece e Université Hassiba benbouali de Chlef, Algeria

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2452-3216 © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0) Peer-review under responsibility of the MedFract2Guest Editors. 10.1016/j.prostr.2022.05.001