PSI - Issue 45

Andrei Kotousov et al. / Procedia Structural Integrity 45 (2023) 1–3 Author name / Structural Integrity Procedia 00 (2019) 000 – 000

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became the fourth country to host APCFS. This conference succeeds the last, which was hosted at Jeju Island, South Korea in November 2020. The first one-day Conference on Structural Integrity and Failure (SIF) organized by the AFG was in October 1974. The SIF conferences and AFG remained Melbourne-centred until 1985 when the fifth AFG conference was held in Sydney. New Zealand became a member of the AFG in 1997, and the 2010 SIF Conference was held in Auckland. The latest (SIF 12) conference was held in Melbourne in December 2021. The aim of the APCFS/SIF 2022 conference was to facilitate the discussion and collaboration of all aspects relating to fracture, strength and, structural integrity. Furthermore, APCFS/SIF 2022 is intended to continue the legacy of both conferences providing a unique platform for the free exchange of ideas between Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Australian scientists as well as experts, researchers, engineers and PhD students across the world. Several new topics have recently emerged and were included into the conference program, i.e., Structural integrity of energy storage devices, including stand-alone batteries and structural batteries, problems of hydrogen storage/transportation, sustainable design as well as structural integrity aspects of 3D printed components. Articles included in the special issue cover a wide range of topics related to structural integrity including fatigue life evaluation methods (Hughes et al.; Magoga et al.), crystal plasticity simulations (Agius et al.), classical linear elastic Fracture Mechanics (Fujimoto; Vidler et al.), composite materials (Jiang, et al.; Le et al.; Zheng et al.; Chen et al.; Yamauchi et al.), behaviour of nano-composites (Ong et al; Sibtain et al.), failure of rocks and building materials (Guo et al.; Ali et al.; Nguyen et al.), bio-mechanics (Wang et al.), Structural Health Monitoring (Hu et al.; Mogeke and Magoga) and non-destructive defect and damage evaluation techniques (Khanna and Young). The authors of these articles represent a diverse international research community focusing on the understanding of failure mechanisms of materials and ensuring structural integrity and safe operation of engineering components and machines starting from the design stage and throughout their life cycle. References Khanna, A. and Young, A. 2023. Guidelines for the field-based vibration assessment of pressure vessel nozzles. Structural Integrity Procedia. Hu, X., Liang, P., Ng, C.-T. and Kotousov, A. 2023. Nonlinear edge wave generation in aluminum plates with microstructural damage. Structural Integrity Procedia. xx Magoga, T., Aksu, S. and Slater, K. 2023. Implementation of a nominal stress approach for the fatigue assessment of aluminium naval ships. Structural Integrity Procedia. xx Mogeke, M. and Magoga, T. 2023. Towards improved understanding of naval ship structural performance via virtual hull monitoring. Structural Integrity Procedia. xx Hughes, J.M., Wallbrink, C. and Kotousov, A. 2023. Cycle-by-cycle crack closure measurements and fatigue crack growth in CT specimen made of 7075-T7351 aluminium. Structural Integrity Procedia. xx Nguyen, N.T., Phan, D.G., Bennett, T., Bui, H.H., Nguyen, G.D. and Karakus, M. 2023. Modelling localised failure in porous reservoir rocks using a continuum model with an embedded localisation band. Structural Integrity Procedia. xx Ali, A., Karakus, M., Nguyen, G.D. and Amrouch, K. 2023. Quantifying the discrepancies in measuring applied stresses using Tangent Modulus Method. Structural Integrity Procedia. xx Guo, Y., Lei, B., Yu, L., Lin, X. and Li, W. 2023. Investigation on mechanical properties and failure criterion of multi-recycled aggregate concrete under triaxial compression. Structural Integrity Procedia. xx Fujimoto, K. 2023. T-stress evaluation of cracks by means of continuous dislocations model in two-dimensional elasticity. Structural Integrity Procedia. xx Vidler, J., Kotousov, A. and Ng, C.-T. 2003. Residual opening of fatigue cracks due to the wake of plasticity. Structural Integrity Procedia. xx Wang, X., Ghayesh, M.H., Kotousov, A., Zander, A.C. and Psaltis, P.J. 2023. Failure investigation and stresses in abdominal aortic aneurysms fluid-structure interaction biomechanics: Effect of nonlinear material properties and presence of intraluminal thrombus. Structural Integrity Procedia. xx Zheng, Y., Chena, T., Huang, C. and Wud, W. 2023. Numerical simulation of compact-tension specimens repaired by CFRP. Structural Integrity Procedia. xx Chen, H., Li, D., Ma, X., Zhong, Z. and Abd-Elaal, E.-S. 2023. Mesoscale analysis of rubber particle effect on compressive strength of crumb rubber mortar. Structural Integrity Procedia. xx Le, T.D., Karampour, H. and Hall, W. 2023. Design of reinforced thermoplastic pipelines for hydrogen transport. Structural Integrity Procedia. xx Jiang, Q., Takayama, T. and Nishioka, A. 2023. Relationship between interfacial shear strength and impact strength of injection molded short glass fiber-reinforced thermoplastics. Structural Integrity Procedia. xx Yamauchi, K., Shiotani, Y. and Saito, H. 2023. Deviation of the Linear Relation between Adhesion strength and Surface Free Energy on the Low Energy Surface. Structural Integrity Procedia. xx Sibtain, M., Smith, S., Yeganehmehr, A., Ong, O.Z.S. and Ghayesh, M.H. 2023. Vibrations of axially travelling CNT reinforced beams with Agius, D., Cram, D., Hutchinson, C., Preuss, M., Sterjovski, Z. and Wallbrink, C. 2023. An experimental and computational study into strain localisation in beta-annealed Ti-6Al-4V. Structural Integrity Procedia. xx.