PSI - Issue 60

2 for Atomic Research (IGCAR), Kalpakkam and Society for Failure Analysis, Chennai Chapter in 2014; the second edition was held in 2018 at IIT-Madras. ICONS series conference has been providing an appropriate platform for the exchange of knowledge and ideas in these rich and diverse fields of research and development. The third edition of the conference, ICONS 2023 held at Four Points by Sheraton, Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu during Aug 2023 attracted quality interaction between industry, academia and R&D institutions, with a very good response from several leading industries, academic and R&D institutions. Major research topics covered in the conference included Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics, High Strain Rate Testing, Small Specimens Test Methods, Fretting, Fracture Mechanics based Design, Computational Mechanics, Micromechanics of Fracture and Damage, Steel and Concrete Structures, Composites, Structural S.A. Krishnan et al. / Procedia Structural Integrity 60 (2024) 1–2 Materials and Weldments, NDE and Structural Health Monitoring, Failure Analysis, Reliability and Structural Integrity Assessment, Fitness for Service and Remaining Life Assessment and Aerospace Applications. The ICONS 2023 was attended by nearly 250 delegates comprising of engineers, materials scientists, academicians, industry experts, plant managers and regulatory personnel. There were three plenary lectures, eleven Keynote lectures, nineteen invited lectures and eighty-eight contributory paper presentations apart from seventy poster presentations. Many industrial partners have supported the event and displayed their products during the conference. As a precursor to the ICONS 2023, two pre-conference workshops were organized: 1) Fatigue Life and Fracture Assessment of Steel and Concrete Structural Components at CSIR-SERC, Chennai, and 2) Design, Manufacture and Quality Assurance of Large Size Components at IGCAR, Kalpakkam. The hard efforts put in by the organizers have culminated in the success of ICONS 2023, making it a memorable one. The organizing team would like to place on record the support and guidance received from Dr. B. Venkataraman, Director, IGCAR and Dr. Divakar Ramachandran, Director, Metallurgy and Materials Group . Dr. Divakar’s personal involvement was instrumental in the timely release of this special issue. We thank the authors for contributing their novel and valuable research findings and the papers presented in this special issue have been selected through a rigorous peer review by experts in the relevant fields of specialization. We thank the rewiewers for their painstaking efforts in critically reviewing the manuscripts. Thanks are also due to Prof. Francesco Iacoviello, Editor, Procedia Structural Integrity, and Elsevier Publishers for agreeing to publish the accepted papers as a special issue. We also thank the Elsevier production team for their sincere efforts in the timely release of this special issue.