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ICSI 2021 The 4th International Conference on Structural Integrity Editorial Pedro Moreira*, Paulo J. Tavares INEGI – Institute of Science and Innovation in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Porto, Portugal ICSI 2021 The 4th International Conference on Structural Integrity Editorial Pedro Moreira*, Paulo J. Tavares INEGI – Institute of Science and Innovation in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Porto, Portugal

© 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0) Peer-review under responsibility of Pedro Miguel Guimaraes Pires Moreira © 2022 The Authors. Published by ELSEVIER B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0) Peer-review under responsibility of Pedro Miguel Guimaraes Pires Moreira Keywords: Type your keywords here, separated by semicolons ; 1. Main text ICSI focuses on all aspects and scales of research on Structural Integrity. This ranges from basics to future trends, with special emphasis on multi-scale and multi-physics approaches, and applications to new materials and challenging environments. Current research topics in the realm of Structural Integrity targeted by ICSI include Fracture and Fatigue, Stress Analysis, Damage Tolerance, Durability, Crack Closure, Joining Technologies, Nanomechanics and Nanomaterials, Ageing, Coatings Technology, Environmental Effects, Structural Health Monitoring, New materials, Surface Engineering, Structural Integrity in Biomechanics and many other relevant research topics. In 2021, in spite of the pandemic which affected the entire R&D community and forced ICSI to go online, an effort was made to keep the momentum generated in the previous editions, increasing the visibility to the conference and its scientific impact. ICSI invited a number of prominent researchers which accepted to lecture on their own fields, such as Prof. Sabrina Vantadori from the University of Parma, Prof. Fabrice Pierron from Southampton University, Prof. Milos Djukic from the University of Belgrade, Profs. Nima Shamsaei and Shuai Shao from Auburn University, Prof. Youshi Hong from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and our dear friend Prof. Jesus Toribio from the University of Salamanca. ICSI has been organized into a general track and thematic symposia, as in previous editions. The response to the organization efforts has been outstanding: Fourteen symposia were proposed and accepted; the number of submissions was kept at a similar level to 2019, with 206 approved oral communications out of 224 2022 The Authors. Published by ELSEVIER B.V. T is is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0) P r-review under responsibility of Pedro Mig el Guimaraes Pi s Moreira Keywords: Type your keywords here, separated by semicolons ; 1. Main text ICSI focuses on all aspects and scales of research on Structural Integrity. This ranges from basics to future trends, with special emphasis on multi-scale and multi-physics approaches, and applications to new materials and challenging environments. Current research topics in the realm of Structural Integrity targeted by ICSI include Fracture and Fatigue, Stress Analysis, Damage Tolerance, Durability, Crack Closure, Joining Technologies, Nanomechanics and Nanomaterials, Ageing, Coatings Technology, Environmental Effects, Structural Health Monitoring, New materials, Surface Engineering, Structural Integrity in Biomechanics and many other relevant research topics. In 2021, in spite of the pandemic which affected the entire R&D community and forced ICSI to go online, an effort was made to keep the momentum generated in the previous editions, increasing the visibility to the conference and its scientific impact. ICSI invited a number of prominent researchers which accepted to lecture on their own fields, such as Prof. Sabrina Vantadori from the University of Parma, Prof. Fabrice Pierron from Southampton University, Prof. Milos Djukic from the University of Belgrade, Profs. Nima Shamsaei and Shuai Shao from Auburn University, Prof. Youshi Hong from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and our dear friend Prof. Jesus Toribio from the University of Salamanca. ICSI has been organized into a general track and thematic symposia, as in previous editions. The response to the organization efforts has been outstanding: Fourteen symposia were proposed and accepted; the number of submissions was kept at a similar level to 2019, with 206 approved oral communications out of 224

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2452-3216 © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0) Peer-review under responsibility of Pedro Miguel Guimaraes Pires Moreira 10.1016/j.prostr.2022.01.053