PSI - Issue 36

Petro Yasniy et al. / Procedia Structural Integrity 36 (2022) 1–2 Petro Yasniy, Hryhoriy Nykyforchyn , Volodymyr Iasniy, Olha Zvirko / Structural Integrity Procedia 00 (2021) 000 – 000

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Fracture Mechanics (USFM) and G.S. Pisarenko Institute for Problems of Strength the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine were the main organizers of these conferences. The VDMDP1 2021 was held online for the first time due to pandemics. The sessions were organized via the video conferences platform. The USFM presents Ukraine n the ESIS via Ukrainian National Group which participates actively also in the ESIS Technical Committees: TC10 Environmentally Assisted Cracking and TC13 Education and Training. The VDMDP1 2021 brought together leading scientists, researchers and research scholars to share their experience, research results and scientific ideas regarding key areas of fracture and damage mechanics, structural integrity assessment and maintenance. It has become an interactive platform for discussion of recent advances, trends and practical challenges in the field of fracture mechanics and structural integrity. Seventy seven (77) contributions from Spain, Poland, Germany, France, India, Iran and Ukraine attended the VDMDP1 2021 Conference. Contributions were accepted covering the following topics of the Conference: • Localized and nonlocalized damage of materials • Metallography and fractography • Crack initiation and propagation • Lifetime calculations of mechanical components • Strength and reliability of components Also, in the frames of conference two mini-symposia were organized, namely Hydrogen Degradation, and Technogenic and Environmental Risks in the Energy Sector: Estimation, Forecasting, Prevention. This special issue contains the full- text conference’s papers accepted for publishing after the peer-review. The efforts of the authors and of the colleagues that volunteered for the review process are kindly acknowledged. We hope that this issue will be interesting for scientists and researchers in the field of the fracture mechanics, materials science and structural integrity as well for the lecturers of high schools, and post-graduate students of the corresponding specialties. We also hope that it will be useful for experts and engineers in the industrial sectors, such as the energy generation, machinery, transport, chemical industry, civil engineering, etc. As the Guest Editors of this Conference Proceedings, we wish to thank all authors for their contributions. Guest Editors of the Procedia Structural Integrity VDMDP1 2021 Conference Proceedings: Petro Yasniy, Hryhoriy Nykyforchyn, Volodymyr Iasnii, Olha Zvirko • Damage prediction • Damage diagnostics