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Acknowledgements The author wishes to kindly and sincerely acknowledge the continuous and long-standing financial support to his scientific research in the field of fracture & structural integrity provided by the following Spanish Institutions: Ministry for Science and Technology (MICYT; Grant MAT2002-01831), Ministry for Education and Science (MEC; Grant BIA2005-08965), Ministry for Science and Innovation (MICINN; Grant BIA2008-06810), Ministry for Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO; Grant BIA2011-27870) and Junta de Castilla y León (JCyL; Grants SA067A05, SA111A07 and SA039A08) In addition, acknowledgement is given to tow companies: E MESA T REFILERÍA (La Coruña. Spain) and T REFILERÍAS Q UIJANO (Los Corrales de Buelna, Santander, Spain) for providing pearlitic steel wires with different degrees of cold drawing in a form suitable for scientific research in a laboratory, thereby allowing the scientific analysis of fatigue and fracture behaviour as a function of the level of strain hardening. References Toribio, J., 1997. Fracture Mechanics Approach to Hydrogen Assisted Microdamage in Eutectoid Steel. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions 28A, 191-197. Toribio, J., Lancha, AM., Elices, M., 1991a. Macroscopic Variables Governing the Microscopic Fracture of Pearlitic Steels. Materials Science and Engineering A145, 167-177. Toribio, J., Lancha, A.M., Elices, M., 1991b. Characteristics of the New Tearing Topography Surface. Scripta Metallurgica et Materialia 25, 2239-2244. Toribio, J., Lancha, A.M., Elices, M., 1992. The Tearing Topography Surface as the Zone Associated with Hydrogen Embrittlement Processes in Pearlitic Steel. Metallurgical Transactions 23A, 1573-1584.