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Jesús Toribio et al. / Procedia Structural Integrity 33 (2021) 1123–1130 Jesús Toribio / Porcedia Structural Integrity 00 (2021) 000–000

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5. Epilogue: A Tribute to Galileo Galilei This paper is aimed towards a new concept of structural integrity, so that his author wishes to pay tribute to the Italian physicist and mathematician Galileo Galilei (Fig. 10) who can be considered as the father of fracture mechanics. Fig. 11 shows a scheme of a test on a cantilever beam to evaluate the strength of materials . It is included in his famous book Dimostrazioni Matematiche (the cover is also shown in Fig. 11).

Fig. 10. Galileo Galilei.

Fig. 11. Scheme of a test on a cantilever beam and book cover ( Dimostrazioni Matematiche by Galileo Galilei).