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Fig. 8. Monument Valley.

4. Closing remarks

Cinema (movies) and fracture mechanics are connected in this paper through some fracture profiles of notched specimens of cold drawn pearlitic steels that resemble the beautiful landscape of Monument Valley in the USA; it appears in so many western movies directed by the master John Ford, so that the term Monument Valley Profile (MVP) was coined by Toribio (2018).

Institutional 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 and its associated microstructural anisotropy that induces macrostructural anisotropy and mixed mode fracture behaviour. The approach between art and science developed in this paper is the result of the kind and warm support provided by prominent scientists in the field of fracture mechanics and structural integrity who organized relevant scientific conferences during which this sort of mixed (art & science) papers were presented, mostly in the form of Invited Keynote and Plenary Lectures. The author warmly acknowledges Professors Petros Sofronis and Alberto Carpinteri (ICF 11, Torino, 2005); Dr. Giovanna Gabetta and Professor Gabriella Bolzon (NATO Workshop, Biskra, 2010); Professors Robert Goldstein, Valery Shlyannikov and Yury Matvienko (ECF19, Kazan, 2012); Professors Masahiro Endo and Ryuichiro Ebara (University of Fukuoka, 2013); Professor Yukitaka Murakami (H YDROGENIUS & I2 CNER M EETING , Fukuoka, 2013); Professor Yury Matvienko (NT2F, Moscow, 2013), Professors Masao Sakane and Andrea Carpinteri (ICMFF 10; Kyoto, 2013); Professor Zhiliang Zhang (ECF20, Trondheim, 2014); Professors Francesco Iacoviello, Luca Susmel, Donato Firrao and Giuseppe Ferro (IGF24, Urbino, 2017); Professors Gabriella Personal Acknowledgements