ESIS Newsletter July 2023

Newsletter #69-2023 European Structural Integrity Society ESIS Newsletter #69, July, 2023 In this issue: EDITORIAL BY THE ESIS PRESIDENT……………… 2 NATIONAL COMMITTEES Czech Republic……………………………………………10 Hungary……………………………………………………… 10 Italy…………………………………………………………… 10 Poland………………………………………………………… 11 Serbia………………………………………………………… 12 TECHNICAL COMMITTEES TC2…………………………………………………………… 12 TC3…………………………………………………………… 12 TC4…………………………………………………………… 13 TC11…………………………………………………………… 13 TC14…………………………………………………………… 14 TC15…………………………………………………………… 16 TC16…………………………………………………………… 16 TC18…………………………………………………………… 16 TC20…………………………………………………………… 16 TC21…………………………………………………………… 17 CONFERENCES Calendar………………………………………………………19 ESIS PROCEDURES AND DOCUMENTS……………20 ESIS Officers President Prof. Emeritus Aleksandar Sedmak Faculty of Mechanical Engineering University of Belgrade Kraljice Marije 16, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia E-mail: asedmak@mas.bg.ac.rs Past-President Prof. Francesco Iacoviello Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale - DICeM via G. Di Biasio 43, 03043, Cassino (FR), Italy E-mail: iacoviello@unicas.it Vice-President Prof. Filippo Berto Department Chemical Materials, Environmental Engineeering, Sapienza University of Roma Via Eudossiana, 18, 00184 Roma RM, Italy E‐Mail: filippo.berto@uniroma1.it Vice-President Prof. Liviu Marsavina Department of Mechanics and Strength of Materials Politehnica University of Timisoara Blvd. M. Viteazu, No.1 Timisoara 300222, Romania E-Mail: msvina@mec.upt.ro Secretary Prof. Pedro Moreira UMAI, INEGI, University of Porto Rua Dr Roberto Frias, 400, 4200‐465 Porto E‐mail: pmoreira@inegi.up.pt Treasurer Prof. Giuseppe Ferro Department of Structural Engineering & Geotechnics Politecnico di Torino Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 10129 Torino, Italy E-mail: ferro@polito.it Vice-Treasurer Prof. Vittorio di Cocco Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale ‐ DICeM via G. Di Biasio 43, 03043, Cassino (FR), Italy E‐mail: v.dicocco@unicas.it Newsletter and publications Prof. Sabrina Vantadori University of Parma - DIA Parco Area delle Scienze 181/A, 43124, Parma, Italy E-mail: sabrina.vantadori@unipr.it Liaison officers Prof. Emerita Leslie Banks‐Sills The Dreszer Fracture Mechanics Laboratory School of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University Ramat Aviv, 6997801, Israel e‐mail: banks@tauex.tau.ac.il Prof. Jianying He Dept. of Structural Engineering NTNU Nanomechanical Lab Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), N‐7491 Trondheim, Norway Email: jianying.he@ntnu.no Prof. Milos Djukic Faculty of Mechanical Engineering University of Belgrade Kraljice Marije 16, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia E‐mail: mdjukic@mas.bg.ac.rs Blogger Prof. Per Ståhle Lund University, Solid Mechanics Lund, Sweden Email: per.stahle@solid.lth.se

Newsletter #69-2023 2 ECF24 Chairman Prof. Zeljko Bozic Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zgreb Ivana Lucica 5, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia E‐mail: zeljko.bozic@fsb.hr ECF25 Chairman Prof. Stavros Kourkoulis Department of Mechanics, National Technical University of Athens Athens, Greece E‐mail: stakkour@central.ntua.gr EDITORIAL BY THE ESIS PRESIDENT Dear friends, The first half of 2023 is almost over. ESIS activities were remarkable, including a number of supported conferences and events, as you can see in this issue of the Newsletter. The ExCo is completed by now, since we found an excellent replacement for Valery to take over Newsletters and Publication. I am very pleased to announce that Sabrina Vantadori is a new ExCo member. This issue of the Newsletter is her first one. Welcome on board, Sabrina! In the meantime, the ExCo has held a regular meeting in Zagreb to check all details necessary for ECF24 that will take place in August 2024. Besides other common topics, the ExCo accepted the request to form a new TC on Tribo-Mechanical Fracture. It will be TC22. All details are available in our website. In 2023, Procedia Structural Integrity released 4 new issues up to now (Vols 42-45), including one containing papers from the ECF23, edited by Pedro Moreira and Luis Reis (LINK). Four Special Issues in Elsevier affiliated Journals are now under preparation. Let me remind you that the ESIS Publishing House (ESIS - PH), recently established, enables ESIS members to publish monographies and scholarly editions, edited volumes and special technical publications. All the volumes are published as "Open Access" volumes, being completely free of charge both for authors and for readers. We are grateful to Francesco for this very important ESIS activity, as well as for the ESIS YouTube channel, providing many video recordings, including some recent ESIS supported events, such as IGF27 in Rome and IRAS 2023 in Belgrade (LINK). I wish also to remind you that being an ESIS member has many advantages. First of all, you belong to a great researcher community, focused on the structural integrity issues published in many journals and publication media, such as: - Elsevier journals affiliated with ESIS: Engineering Failure Analysis, Engineering Fracture Mechanics, International Journal of Fatigue and Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics. We encourage all members to publish articles in these journals. - Procedia Structural Integrity published by Elsevier, but directly coordinated by ESIS. It was born in 2016 and 45 issues have been published up to now. The journal is indexed in Scopus and Google Scholar. Finally, let me recommend to our younger members the 8th ESIS International Summer School on Energy Methods in Fracture and Fatigue that will be held in Messina, Italy, and online, from 10-12 July 2023. Aleksandar Sedmak 24th European Conference on Fracture ECF24 Zagreb, Croatia, 26-30 August 2024 www.ecf24.eu 9th ESIS Fracture Mechanics Summer School Zagreb, Croatia, 24-25 August 2024

Newsletter #69-2023 3 4 Elsevier journals are affiliated with ESIS

Newsletter #69-2023 4 Special Issues 2022-23 Journal Title Event Editors Organized by Int J Fatigue virtual SI Characterisation of Crack/Notch Tip Fields 6 The 6th IJFatigue and FFEMS Joint Workshop on Characterisation of Crack Tip Fields N. James Y. Hong M. Vormwald T. Palin-Luc Ž. Božić Germany N.G. Int J Fatigue virtual SI Fatigue Crack Paths 2021 The 7th International Conference on Crack Paths (CP 2021) S. Vantadori F. Berto A. Carpinteri S. Natali TC03 Int J Fatigue virtual SI Structural Integrity of Additively Manufacturing Materials and its implications to fatigue design The 1st European Conference on the Structural Integrity of Additively Manufactured Materials (ESIAM 19) F. Berto L. Susmel B.Van Hooreweder J. Torgersen G. Qian TC15 Int J Fatigue virtual SI Characterisation of crack tip fields 5 The 5th IJFatigue and FFEMS Joint Workshop on Characterisation of Crack Tip Fields M. Vormwald N. James Y. Hong L. Susmel F. Iacoviello Germany N.G. & Italy N.G Int J Fatigue virtual SI 1st Virtual European Conference on Fracture (VECF1) - Fatigue in presence of cracks or stress concentrators 1st Virtual European Conference on Fracture (VECF1) Ž. Božić A. de Jesus F. Iacoviello S. Vantadori ESIS Int J Fatigue virtual SI Fracture and Fatigue of Structural Materials at different Length Scales Tribute to Professor Andrea Carpinteri (University of Parma, Italy) and Professor Les Pook (University College London, UK) S. Vantadori J. A. Correia F. Berto F. Iacoviello TC03 Eng Failure Anal virtual SI Crack Paths 2021 The 7th International Conference on Crack Paths (CP 2021) S. Vantadori F. Berto J.A. Correia F. Iacoviello TC03 Eng Frac Mech virtual SI 1st Virtual ESIS TC4 Conference on Fracture of Polymers, Composites and Adhesives The 9th International Conference on the Fracture of Polymers, Composites and Adhesives A. Brunner B. Blackman A. Vassilopoulos L. Warnet TC04 Eng Frac Mech virtual SI Fracture behavior of additively manufactured materials and structures The 1st European Conference on Fracture (VECF1) L. Marsavina P. Moreira F. Berto C. Gao ESIS Eng Frac Mech virtual SI Ductile damage models J. Besson N. Bonora I. Scheider TC08 Theor and Appl Fract Mech virtual SI Advances in Fracture Research on Polymerbased Materials The 1st European Conference on Fracture (VECF1) B. Blackman L. Banks-Sills A. Brunner Z. Major S.K. Kourkoulis ESIS Theor and Appl Fract Mech virtual SI The 37th Congress of the Spanish Group of Fracture (GEF2021) The 37th Congress of the Spanish Group of Fracture (GEF2021) Spain N.G.

Newsletter #69-2023 5 Procedia Structural Integrity Editorial Board Francesco Iacoviello, Italy Sara Bagherifard, Italy Leslie Banks-Sills, Israel Chiara Bertolin, Norway Bamber Blackman, United Kingdom Željko Božić, Croatia Giuseppe Andrea Ferro, Italy Virginia Infante, Portugal Liviu Marsavina, Romania Pedro Moreira, Portugal Aleksandar Sedmak, Serbia Valery Shlyannikov, Russian Federation Per Ståhle, Sweden Sabrina Vantadori, Italy Zhiliang Zhang, Norway 2022 – 2023 Issues Volume 46, Pages 1-196 (2023) 5th International Conference on Structural Intergrity and Durability Edited by Željko Božić, Siegfried Schmauder, Katarina Monkova, George Pantazopoulos, Sergio Baragetti, Francesco Iacoviello https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/procedia-structural-integrity/vol/46/suppl/C Volume 45, Pages 1-148 (2023) 17th Asia-Pacific Conference on Fracture and Strength and the 13th Conference on Structural Integrity and Failure (APCFS 2022 & SIF 2022) Edited by Andrei Kotousov, Ching Tai Ng, Wenyi Yan https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/procedia-structural-integrity/vol/45/suppl/C Volume 44, Pages 1-2356 (2023) XIX ANIDIS Conference, Seismic Engineering in Italy Edited by Giuseppe Ferro, Luciana Restuccia https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/procedia-structural-integrity/vol/44/suppl/C

Newsletter #69-2023 6 Volume 43, Pages 1-324 (2023) Materials Structure & Micromechanics of Fracture Edited by Jaroslav Pokluda, Pavel Šandera https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/procedia-structural-integrity/vol/43/suppl/C Volume 42, Pages 1-1762 (2022) 23 European Conference on Fracture Edited by Pedro Moreira, Luis Filipe Galrao dos Reis https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/procedia-structural-integrity/vol/42/suppl/C Volume 41, Pages 1-766 (2022) 2nd Mediterranean Conference on Fracture and Structural Integrity Edited by Filippo Berto, Vittorio Di Cocco, Francisco Galvez, Stavros K. Kourkoulis, Francesco Iacoviello, Mohamed Hadj Meliani https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/procedia-structural-integrity/vol/41/suppl/C Volume 40, Pages 1-476 (2022) 15th International Conference on Mechanics, Resource and Diagnostics of Materials and Structures (MRDMS 2021) Edited by Roman Savrai, Alexander Smirnov https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/procedia-structural-integrity/vol/40/suppl/C Volume 39, Pages 1-814 (2022) 7th International Conference on Crack Paths (CP2021) Edited by Sabrina Vantadori, Stefano Natali, Francesco Iacoviello, Andrea Carpinteri, Filippo Berto https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/procedia-structural-integrity/vol/39/suppl/C Volume 38, Pages 1-640 (2022) Fatigue Design 2021, International Conference Proceedings, 9th Edition Edited by Fabien Lefebvre, Pascal Souquet https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/procedia-structural-integrity/vol/38/suppl/C Volume 37, Pages 1-1072 (2022) ICSI 2021 The 4th International Conference on Structural Integrity Edited by Pedro Moreira, Paulo Tavares https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/procedia-structural-integrity/vol/37/suppl/C Volume 36, Pages 1-408 (2022) 1st Virtual International Conference “In service Damage of Materials: Diagnostics and Prediction Edited by Petro Yasniy, Hryhoriy Nykyforchyn, Volodymyr Iasniy, Olha Zvirko https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/procedia-structural-integrity/vol/36/suppl/C

Newsletter #69-2023 7 Volume 35, Pages 1-278 (2022) 2nd International Workshop on Plasticity, Damage and Fracture of Engineering Materials (IWPDF 2021), 18-20 August 2021, Ankara, Turkey Edited by Tuncay Yalçinkaya https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/procedia-structural-integrity/vol/35/suppl/C

Newsletter #69-2023 8 OA Journals affiliated with ESIS Francesco Iacoviello Editor in Chief Filippo Berto Co-Editor in Chief Sabrina Vantadori Co-Editor in Chief Jianying He Co-Editor in Chief Zoran Radaković Editor-in-Chief Aleksandar Sedmak Editor-in-Chief Emeritus In order to be included in the Open Access journal panel affiliated to ESIS, a journal must respect the following criteria: - all the papers are submitted to a reviewing process; - the journal is completely free of charge, both for readers and for authors; - the journal is not published by a professional Publisher; - the journal is published in English and is included in DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journal). Other indexations (e.g., Scopus and ISI) are welcome.

Newsletter #69-2023 9 ESIS Publishing House ESIS Publishing House (ESIS - PH) allows to ESIS members to publish Monographies and Scholarly Editions (either in English or in one of the National European languages), edited volumes and special technical publications. All the volumes are published as "Open Access" volumes, being completely free of charge both for authors and for readers. Authors retaining full and permanent ownership of their work. ESIS-PH retains a perpetual, non-exclusive right to publish the work and to include it in other aggregations and indexes to achieve broader impact and visibility. The volumes are organised in the following Series: PSI - Procedia Structural Integrity https://www.esis-ph.eu/index.php/eph/catalog/series/PSI ECF conferences https://www.esis-ph.eu/index.php/eph/catalog/series/ECF VIDEO presentations https://www.esis-ph.eu/index.php/eph/catalog/series/VideoP CRACK PATHS conferences https://www.esis-ph.eu/index.php/eph/catalog/series/cp MULTIAXIAL fatigue and fracture conferences https://www.esis-ph.eu/index.php/eph/catalog/series/multiaxial MULTILATERAL events https://www.esis-ph.eu/index.php/eph/catalog/series/Multilateral NATIONAL GROUPS conferences https://www.esis-ph.eu/index.php/eph/catalog/series/NG PhD Thesis https://www.esis-ph.eu/index.php/eph/catalog/series/phdthesis TC publications & ESIS recommendations https://www.esis-ph.eu/index.php/eph/catalog/series/TCp BOOKS https://www.esis-ph.eu/index.php/eph/catalog/series/books

Newsletter #69-2023 10 National Committees Czech Republic ESIS group of Czech Republic was a grant of following events: - Tenth International Conference on Materials Structure & Micromechanics of Fracture (LINK); - 21st International Colloquium on Mechanical Fatigue of Metals (LINK) - 7th International Conference Non-Traditional Cement & Concrete (LINK) Stanislav Seitl Hungary NDT Integrity Engineering course in Hungary Accepting the invitation of Prof. Peter Trampus, President of the Hungarian Association for NDT (MAROVISZ) and Chairman of ESIS TC17 (Non-Destructive Evaluation) as well as of Prof. Laszlo Toth, former Chairman of ESIS TC13, Prof. Aleksandar Sedmak, President of ESIS visited Hungary between March 21 and 23, 2023. He was accompanied by Mr. Mladen Mladenovic, President of the Serbian NDT Society. MAROVISZ had its biannual NDT Conference in Eger, and Prof. Sedmak held a presentation on “Application of advanced NDT methods to assess structural integrity of pressure vessel welded joints”. Prof. Sedmak and Prof. Trampus had thorough discussion of the potential areas of technical and scientific collaboration in European and regional level with special regard to NDE 4.0 and its contribution to structural integrity assessment of engineering components. After the Conference Prof. Sedmak and Mr. Mladenovic visited the Bay Zoltan Institute in Miskolc and met with the members of the ESIS Hungarian Chapter. During the negotiations here, on the one hand, the atmosphere of the longterm cooperation and the common results initiated by late Stojan Sedmak and Laszlo Tóth have been recalled, and on the other hand the further collaboration of the interested new generation has been discussed. Visit of ESIS President - Hungary March 2023 Visit of ESIS President - Hungary March 2023 Peter Trampus Italy Italian Group of Fracture (IGF) activites In 2023, IGF organised the “27th International Conference on Fracture - IGF27” (February 2224, 2023, Rome - Italy & Web) in presence at Sapienza - University of Rome. With more than 170 abstracts received, 160 participants (more than 100 in presence) from 42 different countries, the event was really successful!!! Conference venue: Sapienza - University of Rome During the Conference, Professor Aleksandar Sedmak was awarded the “Manson-Coffin Medal”

Newsletter #69-2023 11 and Professor Stavros Kourkoulis was awarded the “Lazzarin Medal”. Moreover, “Award of Merit” was given to Prof. Francesco Iacoviello for the extraordinary support to IGF during the years and contribution for the development and growth of the society. “Manson-Coffin Medal”: Prof. Aleksandar Sedmak “Lazzarin Medal”: Prof. Stavros Kourkoulis “Award of Merit”: Prof. Francesco Iacoviello Proceedings have been published on an issue of Procedia Structural Integrity soon be available. Moreover, a Special Issue on Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale is being organised with a total number of 20 papers and 2 reviews. The volume of the presentations videorecordings entitled “IGF27 - 27th International Conference on Fracture and Structural Integrity” is available in ESIS-PH (LINK). The volume of the presentations videorecordings entitled “2nd Mediterranean Conference on Fracture and Structural Integrity: MedFract2” is available in ESIS-PH (LINK). In 2023, the next event organised by IGF will be the “Third European Conference on the Structural Integrity of Additively Manufactured Materials - ESIAM23” (September 4-6, 2023, Porto - Portugal & Web, LINK). In 2024, one of the events organised by IGF will be the “8th International Conference on Crack Paths - CP2024” (September 10-12, 2024, Rimini, Italy& Web). In the first half of 2023, IGF has published 4 issues of Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale (Fracture and Structural Integrity) with 254 papers, with a rejection rate of 92%. Also, for the 2023 Scimago Journal & Country Rank has certified that Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale is Q2 in these 3 different categories: - Civil and Structural Engineering; - Mechanical Engineering; - Mechanics of Materials. We wish to remind that Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale encompasses the broad topic of structural integrity, which is based on the mechanics of fatigue and fracture and is concerned with the reliability and effectiveness of structural components. The aim of the Journal is to promote works and researches on fracture phenomena, as well as the development of new materials and new standards for structural integrity assessment. The Journal is interdisciplinary and accepts contributions from engineers, metallurgists, materials scientists, physicists, chemists, and mathematicians. The Journal is completely free of charge, both for Readers and for Authors (no APC). Filippo Berto Poland Activities of the Polish Group of Fracture Mechanics for the year 2022 The Polish Group of Fracture Mechanics (PGMP) is actively developing international cooperation with many ESIS technical committees. PGMP members are intensively involved in TC12 activities. Currently, PGMP organizes an open scientific meeting on 20-22.IX.2023 and integrate the Polish Group of Crack Mechanics with other national organizations during the "National Conference of Fracture Mechanics". Conference website (LINK). During the conference there will be an "English Speaking Day" and the language of lectures will be English and Polish (during Polish sessions of the organizers). The Scientific Committee invites all members - guests. The registration deadline will be extended at the end of July (including

Newsletter #69-2023 12 abstract submission). We warmly invite you to participate and promote the event. In addition, the PGMP group is developing international programs (BIP – Blended Intensive Program – Erasmus - in preparation) on training students and doctoral students in Structural Integrity. Grzegorz Lesiuk Serbia Serbian NG “Structural Integrity and Life” (DIVK) – report DIVK has organized two important events: - TC8 technical meeting 6-7th Feb. 2023 in Belgrade and online. 19 papers were presented, in three sessions: Applications of XFEM, Simulation of fracture, and special session on Modelling the hydrogen embrittlement. - The Second International Symposium on Risk Analysis and Safety of Complex Structures and Components (IRAS 2023), 2-4. April 2023 in Belgrade, in cooperation with TC12 with 90 participants on the spot and online. Video recordings from IRAS 2023 are available in IRAS 2023 Book of video-presentations (by ESIS Publishing House) with ISBN: 978-8831482-60-8. More than 50 papers will be published in the SI of Procedia Structural Integrity. Special issue for selected papers is also arranged with EFA. Issue No. 1 of our Journal (Structural Integrity and Life, gold open) has been released in May, as well as the Special issue dedicated to 75 years of the Serbian Institute for Material Testing (IMS). Papers are available on our website (LINK). Aleksandar Sedmak TECHNICAL COMMITTEES TC2: Micromechanisms TC2 organised a mini-symposium entitled “Micromechanisms of fracture and fatigue” at the ECF23, European Conference on Fracture 2022 in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, 27 June – 1 July 2022. TC2 organised some Sessions entitled “Micromechanisms of fracture and fatigue” at the Conference “Materials Structure & Micromechanics of Fracture” - MSMF10 in Brno, Czech Republic, September 12 - 14, 2022 (LINK). Andrey Shanyavskiy Andrey Jivkov TC3: Fatigue of Engineering Materials and Structures Statutes and activities of ESIS TC3 July 2023 1. Name TC3: FATIGUE of ENGINEERING MATERIALS and STRUCTURES Chairpersons: Sabrina Vantadori and José António Correia Secretaries: Camilla Ronchei and Shun-Peng Zhu Treasurer: Daniela Scorza 2. Objectives of TC3 (2.1) Support to the Thematic Symposium on “Fatigue Crack Growth – experimental, theoretical and numerical approach” - chaired by Grzegorz Lesiuk at the 5th International Conference on Structural Integrity (ICSI2023), 29th August to 1st September, 2023, Madeira, Portugal (2.2) Organisation of the Virtual 8th International Conference on Crack Paths (CP 2024), 10th to 12th September, 2024. Chairpersons: Sabrina Vantadori (Parma, Italy), Francesco Iacoviello (Cassino, Italy), Nicholas Fantuzzi (Bologna, Italy), Andrea Carpinteri (Parma, Italy), Filippo Berto (Rome, Italy), Luca Vincenzo Ballestra (Bologna, Italy).

Newsletter #69-2023 13 3. Achievement of objectives (3.1) Organisation of the Thematic Symposium on “Experimental and Theoretical Fracture Analysis of Traditional and Innovative Materials” - chaired by Sabrina Vantadori (Parma, Italy) and Luciano Feo (Salerno, Italy) - at the 27th International Conference on Fracture and Structural Integrity (IGF27), 22nd to 24th February 2023, Rome (Italy) & Web. Symposium: oral presentations (3.2) Special Issue of Procedia Structural Integrity entitled “7th International Conference on Crack Paths (CP2021)” (Guest Editors: Sabrina Vantadori, Stefano Natali, Francesco Iacoviello, Andrea Carpinteri, Filippo Berto), with papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Crack Paths (CP 2021), 21st to 24th September 2021 (LINK). (3.3) Special Issue of International Journal of Fatigue entitled “Fatigue Crack Paths 2021” (Guest Editors: Sabrina Vantadori, Filippo Berto, Andrea Carpinteri, Stefano Natali) with papers selected from those presented at the 7th International Conference on Crack Paths (CP 2021), 21st to 24th September 2021 (LINK). (3.4) Special Issue of Engineering Failure Analysis entitled “Crack Paths 2021” (Guest Editors: Sabrina Vantadori, Filippo Berto, José António Correia, Francesco Iacoviello), with papers selected from those presented at the 7th International Conference on Crack Paths (CP 2021), 21st to 24th September 2021 (LINK). (3.5) Volume of the presentations videorecordings entitled “The 7th International Conference on Crack Paths” (LINK). Sabrina Vantadori TC4: Polymers, Polymer Composites and Adhesives TC4 will hold a meeting in Enschede (The Netherlands), September 28-29, 2023 (contact person: Laurent Warnet). The TC4 is organising the 9th International Conference on Fracture of Polymers, Composites and Adhesives, March 24–27 2024, Eurotel Victoria, Les Diablerets, Switzerland (download). Andreas J. Brunner TC11: High Temperature Mechanical Testing TC11: High Temperature Mechanical Testing Committee (HTMTC) Status and activities since 2022 Chairpersons: Dr Hellmuth Klingelhöffer and Dr Pete Barnard Secretary: Dr Malcolm Loveday Objectives of TC11 The HTMTC aims to improve the techniques and procedures used for the high temperature testing of materials, and to disseminate this information to the materials community as a whole. It achieves these aims by: - Providing a Forum for Discussion; - Organizing Conferences and Laboratory Visits; - Publishing Conference Proceedings and Codes of Practice; - Initiating Research Activities. Meeting held The 84th HTMTC AGM meeting was held at the Kimpton Hotel in Edinburgh and by using Teams at 24th of May 2023 following the close of the Technical Sessions ECCC2023 Creep & Fracture Conference. The agenda covered administrative matters, i.e. accounts, election of members and officers, scheduling next meeting and planning of future activities. Malcolm Loveday stood down

Newsletter #69-2023 14 after serving for the last 19 years as Secretary preceded by 8 years as Chairman and by an additional 14 years as Secretary since the HTMTC was formed in 1982. He would remain as an emeritus member of the Committee for a further year to provide continuity in handing over to the new Officers. Dr Hellmuth Klingelhöffer retired from BAM and is not able to stand as Chairman since the terms of his pension would preclude him being re-imbursed expenses, however his will remain as a committee member for another year and to help organise the next international conference at BAM. A new chairman and vicechairman as well as a new treasurer have been appointed. Conferences held and in planning ECCC2023 Creep & Fracture conference A joint UKHTPPF & HTMTC Conference was organised under the auspices of ECCC in Edinburgh between 22nd-24th May 2023, ECCC2023, 6th International Creep & Fracture Conference (LINK). The Conference had been a success with approximately 106 registrants. The standard of presentations was good and social/technical visits took place the following day. Of the 73 presentations 30 are expected to be accepted for inclusion in a special edition of Materials at High Temperature with the remaining presentations being published in the conference proceedings. A preliminary proceeding should be available at end June 2023 with a final version published when the journal papers have been accepted. Plans for the next conference ECCC2027, 7th International Creep & Fracture Conference are underway and will advise as soon as possible so that you can reserve a space in your diary. EUROMAT 2023 The EUROMAT conferences are run under the auspices of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS). The EUROMAT 2023 conference (LINK) is held in Frankfurt, Germany on 3rd – 7th September 2023. The HTMTC is involved through organisers of the B7 symposium, namely, Dr. Svjetlana Stekovic (Linköping University), D James Rouse (The University of Nottingham) and Dr Pearl Agyakwa (Nottingham University). The B7 symposium focuses on Microstructure Characterization, Mechanical Properties and Theory-Guided Development of Structural Materials. It received the highest number of abstracts, i.e. 144. The local Congress Organising Society is the German Materials Society-DGM e.V. Svjetlana will promote and communicate the HTMTC and its activities at the conference. 5th International TMF-Workshop 2024 BAM has decided to host the 5th International TMF-Workshop 2024 at BAM on 25-26 April 2024. Dr Hellmuth Klingelhöffer will organise it together with his colleague Dr Jürgen Olbricht. Dr Svjetlana Stekovic will be part of the Scientific Committee. It was intended to have a session on ISO12111, Metallic materials — Fatigue testing — Strain-controlled thermomechanical fatigue testing method which would be due for revision, and it was hoped that Mike McGraw, convenor of the relevant working group would be able to participate in the Conference. Further, Svjetlana plans to present a final draft of the Code of Practice for TMF CG at the conference under the HTMTC umbrella. Fatigue 2024 Fatigue 2024, 9th Engineering Integrity Society International Conference on Durability & Fatigue, is being organised in Cambridge between 19-21 June 2024 (LINK). Dr Stekovic (Linköping University), Dr Hyde (The University of Nottingham) and Prof Whittaker (Swansea University) are co-organisers of the conference. Workshop on Digital Image Correlation A Workshop on Digital Image Correlation techniques for control of testing machines is preliminary planned to be held at NPL and possible in collaboration with the British Society for Strain Measurement (BSSM). Plan is to have it in Autumn 2024. Other activities Dr Svjetlana Stekovic has joined the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Fatigue. Pete Barnard TC14: Integrity of Biomedical and Biological Materials Activities of ESIS TC14 “Integrity of Biomedical and Biological Materials” 1. ESIS TC14 organised the Thematic Symposium “Integrity of Biomedical and Biological Materials” within the framework of ECF23, European Conference on Fracture 2022 in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, 27 June – 1 July 2022. The aim of this Symposium was to bring together specialists in mechanics and micromechanics of materials, applied mathematics, continuum mechanics, materials science, physics, biomechanics, and medical engineering to discuss latest developments and trends in characterisation and testing protocols for biomedical materials as well as biological tissues and organs (both in vivo and in vitro), constitutive equations of their behaviour and advanced numerical simulation schemes.

Newsletter #69-2023 15 The 4th Committee Meeting of the ESIS TC14 “Integrity of Biomedical and Biological Materials” was organised on 28 June 2022 in Funchal, Portugal within the framework of ECF23. Among attendees were representatives of UK, Israel, Germany, Serbia and Croatia. It was decided to continue the series International Conference on Stents: Materials, Mechanics and Manufacturing that will be organised every twothree years. The topic would be extended, with a new name International Conference on Medical Devices: Materials, Mechanics and Manufacturing, with the next conference to be held in Summer 2023 (see point No.4). 2. Mini Symposium “Mechanics of Biomedical Materials and Devices” was organised by ESIS TC14 within the framework of the 10th International Conference on Modern Practice in Stress and Vibration Analysis (MPSVA 2022) at St. Anne’s College, Oxford, UK, 12-14 July 2022. 3. Symposium “Mechanics of Biomedical Materials and Devices” was organised by ESIS TC14 within the framework of the 29th International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences (ICCES2023) in Shenzhen, China, 2-5 May 2023 (LINK). 4. The 2nd International Conference on Medical Devices: Materials, Mechanics and Manufacturing ICMD3M 2023 was organised by Technical Committee 14 "Integrity of Biomedical and Biological Materials" in Corfu, Greece on 26-28 June 2023 in Corfu Holiday Palace. The first conference was organised in London, UK in 2019 and was focused on stents. The aim of this Conference is to bring together specialists in biomedical engineering, biomechanics, materials science, experimental mechanics, modelling and various aspects of processing and manufacturing as well as medical practitioners to discuss advances in medical devices (stents, implants, scaffolds, prostheses, pacemakers, catheters, endoscopes, sensors, drills, etc.). The topics of the Conference include, but are not limited to, the following: - Metallic and polymeric materials for medical devices; - Mechanical properties of medical devices; - Development of biodegradable medical devices; - Modelling and simulations of deformation of medical devices; - Design of medical devices; - Manufacturing of medical devices; - 3D printing for biomedical applications; - Failure and fracture of medical devices; - In-vitro and in-vivo studies; - Biocompatibility of medical devices; - Interaction of medical devices with tissues and organs; - Mechanics of biological and biomedical materials; - Fluid-solid interaction; - Biological and clinical issues related to medical devices; - Medical-imaging-based assessment. The Plenary Lecture “Prevention and treatment of medical device infections” was delivered by Professor Axel Haverich from Hannover Medical School, Germany. Several Special Sessions will be organized within the framework of the conference: - “Innovations in Biomaterials for Cardiovascular Devices” (Co-Chairs: Prof. Louise Jennings and Dr Helen Berry (UK)) - “Modelling and Simulation of Cardiovascular Devices” (Co-Chairs: Prof. Yun Xu (UK) and Prof. Keefe Manning (USA)) - “Biomechanics of Endovascular Repair Procedures” (Co-Chairs: Prof. Rosaire Mongrain (Canada) and Prof. Francesco Migliavacca (Italy)) - “Additive Manufacturing for Biomedical Applications” (Co-Chairs: Dr Andrew Gleadall and Dr Amirpasha Moetazedian (UK)) Peer-reviewed short papers presented at this Conference will be published in a Special Issue of the Open Access journal Procedia Structural Integrity (Elsevier). A selection of papers presented at ICMD3M 2023 will also be published in a Special Issue of Medical Engineering & Physics (Elsevier) after the event. More details can be found on the conference website (LINK). The Conference Co-Chairs were: Professor Vadim V. Silberschmidt ESIS TC 14 Chair, Head, Mechanics of Advanced Materials Research Group, Loughborough University, UK Professor Sotiris Korossis Chair of Biomedical Engineering & Biohybrid Organs, Cardiopulmonary Regenerative Engineering (CARE) Group, Centre for Biological Engineering, Loughborough University, UK 5. Technical Committee 14 "Integrity of Biomedical and Biological Materials" will organise a Special Session within the framework of the 8th International Conference on Material Modelling ICMM8 in London, UK on 15-17 July 2024. This biennial conference is the eighth in the ICMM series. The first ICMM took place in Dortmund 2009 (Germany). The Conference since then was held in Paris (France), Warsaw (Poland), Berkeley (USA), Rome (Italy), Lund (Sweden) and Cape Town (South Africa). More details can be found at the ICMM8 website (LINK). Vadim V. Silberschmidt

Newsletter #69-2023 16 TC15: Structural Integrity of Additive Manufactured Components The European Conference on the Structural Integrity of Additively Manufactured Materials, ESIAM, was founded in 2017 and first held in Trondheim, Norway 2019. The Conference has been organized under the umbrella of ESIS TC15. Due to the pandemic, a virtual conference has been organized. ESIAM21 constituted the second conference in the ESIAM series, where we have seen several advances in fatigue design and lifetime prediction for AM metals, both on the test geometry as well as on the component level. Despite the online nature of the ESIAM21 conference, there were more than 150 participants from 25 countries represented. This year, in collaboration with TC18, a new event (ESIAM23) will be organized in Porto from 4th to 6th of September. You can find all the information and deadlines at the conference website (LINK). We will wait you numerous to this new in presence event. Filippo Berto TC16: Finite Fracture Mechanics TC16 had its annual meeting in Torino during 17-20 January 2023. The local organizers were Profs. Pietro Cornetti, Alberto Sapora and Mauro Corrado. The homepage of this annual meeting can be found at this LINK for any other details. Zohar Yosibash TC18: Structural Integrity of Welded Joints TC18 is working in the field of structural integrity of welded structures. In collaboration with TC15, it will be organized ESIAM 23 in Porto from 4th to 6th of September 2023 (LINK). We will wait you numerous to this event. In addition, special and dedicated online symposia will be carried out on 2023 and alert in the ESIS website. Different topics will be touched, with the aim to provide an update picture of the state of the art in the field. With reference to the next TC18 activities, an online meeting will be organized, by December 2023, about welding related topics under investigation by single research groups that wish to attend the meeting. Filippo Berto Paolo Ferro TC20: Structural Integrity and Preservation/Restoration of Historical Buildings Activities TC 20 - STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY AND PRESERVATION/RESTORATION OF HISTORICAL BUILDINGS 2022 Event: 30th May 2022 – 4th June 2022 CHePICC (Cultural Heritage Protection in time of Climate Change Online) International Multiplier Event and Summer School held in Trondheim, Norway. Participants from NTNU and University of Krems, Austria, UTAM-CZ; Italian CNR; Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; Universitat fur Angewandte Kunst Wien. Outcome of the school is a book Bertolin, C., Califano, A. and M. Schwai. 2022 CHePiCC Summer School “Cultural Heritage Protection in Climate Change”, Trondheim, Norway 30th May 2022 – 4th June 2022. 111 pages. ESIS-PH (ISBN 978-88-31482-51-6) published by the ESIS-PH Publisher House. The Booklet is available at the LINK and it contains general information about the school, the program of the carried-out activities, the outcomes and the reports provided by the students. 2023 Event: ESICC Conference 2023 - Energy efficiency, Structural Integrity in historical and modern buildings facing Climate change and Circularity, July 4th, 2023, Lisbon, Portugal - Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Av. Rovisco Pais 1, 1049-001 Participants: 15 countries included Brazil, Colombia, Switzerland and Syria extra EU Countries

Newsletter #69-2023 17 Outcome will be: - A book of Abstract - A special issue to be published in Procedia Structural Integrity with the proceeding papers of the Conference (end of the year – beginning of 2024) Chiara Bertolin TC21: Hydrogen Embrittlement and Transport ESIS TC21 Hydrogen embrittlement and transport Activities 2023 - The inaugural ESIS TC21 Technical Committee Meeting will be held during the 5th International Conference on Structural Integrity (ICSI2023), 29 August – 1 September 2023. Funchal, Madeira, Portugal (LINK). - ESIS TC21 is organizing TC21 Thematic/Special Symposium with a round table and panel discussions: ”Hydrogen embrittlement of metals: Problems and solutions” (LINK) during the 5th International Conference on Structural Integrity (ICSI2023), which will be held from 29 August – 1 September 2023. Funchal, Madeira, Portugal (LINK). The HE Thematic/ Special Symposium is organized by Technical Committee TC21 “Hydrogen embrittlement and Transport” of the European Structural Integrity Society – ESIS, together with Prof. Frank Cheng, Canada Research Chair in Pipeline Engineering. More than 40 abstracts are submitted, including submissions and 10 invited talks by some of the top hydrogen embrittlement researchers and research groups from Germany, France, Norway, Italy, Japan, USA, Australia, and other countries. The tentative program is available at this LINK. - ESIS TC21 chairs Milos B. Djukic and Emilio Martínez Pañeda, together with Jianying He, have participated in the organization of a very successful Special Session entitled HYDROGEN (Hydrogen embrittlement), organizers - HYDROGEN Session Chairs: Jianying He, Milos B. Djukic and Emilio Martínez Pañeda, held during 17th International Conference on Engineering Structural Integrity Assessment and 2023 International Symposium on Structural Integrity (ESIA17–ISSI2023), 23–25 May 2023, The Lowry, Salford, Greater Manchester, UK (LINK). - The LinkedIn page for ESIS TC21 Hydrogen embrittlement and transport is open and has already 480+ followers including the most prestigious hydrogen embrittlement researchers worldwide (LINK). - The dedicated European Structural Integrity Society (ESIS) LinkedIn company page is recently open and has already 700+ followers including some of the most prestigious researchers in structural integrity, fracture and materials worldwide (LINK). All ESIS members might follow the company page on LinkedIn and stay informed about ESIS news, including ESIS conferences, workshops, and summer/winter schools focused on issues related to fracture and structural integrity. For more details, please contact Francesco Iacoviello and Milos Djukic, admins of the ESIS LinkedIn company page. 2022 (Archive) - ECF23 - Mini-symposium on Hydrogen embrittlement. Thematic Symposium with a round table and panel discussions TC10B “Hydrogen Embrittlement”, The Current State of the Art in Hydrogen Embrittlement Understanding“, organized by Milos B. Djukic, Hrihoriy Nykyforchyn, Jesús Toribio, Motomichi Koyama and Andrej Atrens. The final program is available at this LINK. - ECF23 - Mini-symposium on Hydrogen embrittlement on the ESIS YouTube channel. Video recording of presentations during Thematic Symposium with a round table and panel discussions TC10B “Hydrogen Embrittlement”, The Current State of the Art in Hydrogen Embrittlement Understanding“, organized by Milos B. Djukic, Hrihoriy Nykyforchyn, Jesús Toribio, Motomichi Koyama and Andrej Atrens (LINK). - Corrosion and Stress Corrosion Cracking in the Natural Gas and Oil Industry - Special issue (SI) of Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering. This SI edited by Milos B Djukic, Andrej Atrens, Mariano Iannuzzi, Y. Frank Cheng, Ram R. Ratnakar, Yi-Sheng Chen and Muhammad Wasim collect 15 invited papers including the topic of hydrogen embrittlement problems of oil and gas pipelines (LINK). Milos B. Djukic

Newsletter #69-2023 18 If you become an ESIS member...  You will have full access to the ESIS publications archive  You will receive the credentials for the ESIS G-Suite service (the customized improved Google Suite for ESIS e.g. you will obtain a 30 Gb GDrive, instead of the standard 15 Gb)  You will have a discount for the participation to the ECF events (Conferences and Summer schools)  Monthly, you will receive the “ESIS News”, with all the updates concerning events organized by ESIS, by the ESIS Technical Committees and by the National Committees  Every 6 months, you will receive the ESIS Newsletter, with the reports concerning the Technical Committees and National Committees activities and all the information concerning ESIS life In addition, thanks to ESIS member contribution, it is possible for ESIS:  To organize Technical Committees focused on many different topics  To publish a blog on iMechanica that promotes and intensifies relevant scientific discussions on recent publications in Engineering Fracture Mechanics  To publish a YouTube channel with the videorecordings of some events recently organized by ESIS (ECF presentations and Summers Schools)  To publish Procedia Structural Integrity (Elsevier), an open access product focused entirely on publishing full sets of conference proceedings organized by ESIS, by ESIS Technical Committees and by National Groups that are affiliated with ESIS  To publish an up to date website (www.esisweb.org) and to “be alive” in the web, with a Facebook page, a Telegram channel, a YouTube channel, a Twitter account, and a Linkedin account  To publish special issues in four affiliated Elsevier journals (Engineering Failure Analysis, Engineering Fracture Mechanics, International Journal of Fatigue, Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics) How to become an ESIS member ESIS has individual, organisational and corporate memberships. Members may register as individual members (Individual registration) or as part of a group membership from a named industrial, commercial, research, or educational organisation by payment of the annual fee (Corporate or National Committees registration) https://www.structuralintegrity.eu/site/marketing/information

Newsletter #69-2023 19 CALENDAR OF TC MEETINGS & ACTIVITIES TC07 August 29 - September 1 2023 Thematic symposium "Failure analysis" in the frame of the ICSI conference Funchal, Madeira, Portugal https://www.icsi.pt/themati c-symposia-2023/ TC15 September 4-6 2023 The third European Conference on the Structural Integrity of Additively Manufactured Materials, ESIAM23 Porto, Portugal https://www.esiam.site/ TC04 March 24-27 2024 9th International Conference on Fracture of Polymers, Composites and Adhesives Les Diablerets, Switzerland https://www.elsevier.com/e vents/conferences/esistc4c onference TC14 July 15-17 2024 8th International Conference on Material Modelling ICMM8 London, UK https://www.lboro.ac.uk/re search/icmm8/ TC03 September 10–12 2024 8th International Conference on Crack Paths (CP 2024) Rimini, Italy CALENDAR OF CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS July 10-11, 2023 International Conference on Renewable Energies and Ocean Technologies - Reotech2023 Porto, Portugal https://web.fe.up.pt/~reotech/ August 29-September 1, 2023 International Conference on Structural Integrity – ICSI2023 Funchal, Madeira, Portugal https://www.icsi.pt/ September 12-14, 2023 21st International Conference on Fracture, Damage and structural health Monitoring (FDM2023) Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, UK http://fdm.engineeringconferenc es.net/new/ October 4-6, 2023 3rd International Workshop on Plasticity, Damage and Fracture of Engineering Materials, İstanbul, Türkiye http://iwpdf.metu.edu.tr/ October 18-20, 2023 International Conference on In-service Damage of Materials: Diagnostics and Prediction Ternopil (Ukraine) & Web https://dmdp.tntu.edu.ua/ November 8, 2023 Dr. M.R. Mitchell Student Presentation Forum Washington Hilton, Washington, DC https://na.eventscloud.com/web site/44342/21st-internationalastm-esis-symp/ November 8-10, 2023 21st International ASTM/ESIS Symposium on Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics Washington Hilton, Washington, DC https://na.eventscloud.com/web site/44342/21st-internationalastm-esis-symp/ November 29-30, 2023 Fatigue Design 2023 Senlis, France https://www.fatiguedesign.org/ June 19-21, 2024 Fatigue 2024 Jesus College, Cambridge, UK https://www.fatigue2024.com/

Newsletter #69-2023 20 ESIS Procedures and Documents (free available for ESIS Members at www.structuralintegrity.eu/) Two kinds of documents are produced by ESIS Technical Committees with the following designatory system: ESIS P2-92 or ESIS P4-92D, where: 1. P means "Procedure", and 2 and 4 are the current numbers, while 92 is the year of issue. 2. D following the year (eg: 92D) means "draft", ie: not yet approved, while 3. D prior to the year (eg: D1-92) means "Document" other than test methods. P1-92 ESIS RECOMMENDATIONS FOR DETERMINING THE FRACTURE RESISTANCE OF DUCTILE MATERIALS. Responsible body: TC1 Subcommittee on Fracture Mechanics Testing Standards. P2-92 ESIS PROCEDURE FOR DETERMINING THE FRACTURE BEHAVIOUR OF MATERIALS. Responsible body: TC1 Subcommittee on Fracture Mechanics Testing Standards. P4-92D ESIS RECOMMENDATIONS FOR STRESS CORROSION TESTING USING PRE-CRACKED SPECIMENS. Responsible body: TC10 Committee on Environmental-Assisted Cracking. P5-00/VAMAS PROCEDURE FOR DETERMINING THE OF FRACTURE TOUGHNESS OF CERAMICS USING THE SEVNB METHOD . Responsible body: TC6 Committee on Ceramics. P6-98 ESIS PROCEDURE TO MEASURE AND CALCULATE MATERIAL PARAMETERS FOR THE LOCAL APPROACH TO FRACTURE USING NOTCHED TENSILE SPECIMENS. Responsible body: TC8 Committee on Numerical Methods. P7-00 ESIS PROCEDURE FOR DYNAMIC TENSILE TESTS Responsible body: TC5 Subcommittee on Dynamic Testing at Intermediate Strain rates. P8-99D ESIS DRAFT CODE OF PRACTICE FOR THE DETERMINATION AND INTERPRETATION OF CYCLIC STRESS-STRAIN DATA. Responsible body: TC11 Committee on High Temperature Mechanical Testing. P10-02 A CODE OF PRACTICE FOR CONDUCTING NOTCHED BAR CREEP RUPTURE TESTS AND INTERPRETING THE DATA. Responsible body: TC11 High Temperature Mechanical Testing Committee. P11-02 TECHNICAL RECOMMANDATIONS FOR THE EXTREME VALUE ANALYSIS OF DATA ON LARGE NONMETALLIC INCLUSIONS Responsible body: TC20 Committee on Inclusions. D1-92 FRACTURE CONTROL GUIDELINES FOR STRESS CORROSION CRACKING OF HIGH STRENGTH ALLOYS. Responsible body: TC10 Committee on Environmental Assisted Cracking. D2-99 FRACTURE TOUGHNESS OF CERAMICS USING THE SEVNB METHOD; ROUND ROBIN, TEST PROGRAMME. The ESIS TC6 and VAMAS TWA3 developed a test method and conducted a round robin for its validation. D2-99 presents a detailed documentation of this activity. The final form of the test method has appeared as P5-00. Responsible body: TC6 Committee on Ceramics.

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