PSI - Issue 5

Pedro Moreira et al. / Procedia Structural Integrity 5 (2017) 001–004 Pedro Moreira; Paulo Tavares / Structural Integrity Procedia 00 (2017) 000 – 000

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of Fatigue, special issues on six other highly relevant journals in the field of Structural Integrity further supported the conference: Engineering Failure Analysis; Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures; Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design; Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design; Bridge Structures, and; International Journal of Conservation Science. The response to these efforts has been overwhelming: Twelve symposia were proposed and accepted for organization; two ESIS Technical Committees annual meetings were hosted: TC10 on Environmentally Assisted Cracking and TC12 on Risk Analysis and Safety of Large Structures and Components; the number of abstract submissions nearly doubled from 2015: over 250 abstracts were approved for oral communication and nearly 200 full papers have been accepted for the conference proceedings. The biennial ICSI conferences, at the end of summer and resident in Funchal, the capital of the wonderful Madeira Island, were planned to be a referential source of inspiration for the researchers in the field that want to keep updated on the latest developments from reference researchers around the globe. The conference has seen an unprecedented growth in volume and quality and we welcome the reader to judge the excellence of the conference by himself and whether he should attend the next ICSI in 2019. Above all, the organizers believe the ICSI conferences disseminate excellent research and share worthwhile and beneficial knowledge for the enhancement of science and the prosperity of our society, and therefore actively contribute to the preservation and sustainability of our world.

Conference Chairs,

Pedro M. G. P. Moreira Paulo J. S. Tavares INEGI – Institute of Science and Innovation in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Faculty of Engineering Porto University Manuel Freitas, (Multi-Lateral Workshop) IST Portugal