PSI - Issue 43

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Procedia Structural Integrity 43 (2023) 1–2

10th 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 (PSI) contains papers from the 10 th International Conference on Materials Structure and Micromechanics of Fracture (MSMF10) that was held in Brno, Czech Republic, September 12-14, 2022. 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, 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 MSMF meetings organized in Brno during the next years 2001 - 2019. Many world leading experts in the field of fracture and fatigue attended the MSMF conferences as plenary speakers. The tenth, jubilee conference took place in an extremely complicated period. It was preceded by the global pandemic of the dangerous coronavirus. Although its scope decreased slightly, it still significantly affected the free movement of people at the time of the MSMF. Many important conferences, postponed during the two-year restrictions, filled the calendars of regular participants. In addition, the war in Ukraine badly intervened in European events and disturbed the plans of many scientists. Despite these complications, the MSMF10 conference has successfully carried on the tradition of previous conferences with 127 scientists from 19 countries around the world who presented 122 contributions on fundamental relations between structural and mechanical characteristics of materials. There were five invited plenary talks delivered by Dr. Martin Friák (Brno, CZ), Prof. Shigenobu Ogata

* Corresponding author. Tel.: +420-541-142-827; E-mail address: pokluda@fme.vutbr.cz

2452-3216 © 2023 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 © 2023 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 the responsibility of MSMF10 organizers. 10.1016/j.prostr.2022.12.225