Issue 45

Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, 45 (2018); International Journal of the Italian Group of Fracture VII News from Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale I am pleased to announce that Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale is now member of OASPA (Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association). Its mission is to represent the interests of Open Access (OA) journal and book publishers globally, across all subjects and disciplines. This mission will be carried out through exchanging information, setting standards, advancing models, advocacy, education, and the promotion of innovation. All OASPA members undergo a strict initial review procedure and must then continue to exemplify high standards to remain part of OASPA. The panel of “sister associations” is more and more rich. This is the up to dated list:  Greece: Greek Society of Experimental Mechanics of Materials - GSEMM  India: Indian Structural Integrity Society - InSIS  Israel: Israel Structural Integrity Group - ISIG  Italy: Associazione Italiana di Metallurgia - AIM  Italy: Associazione Italiana di Meccanica Teorica ed Applicata - AIMETA  Italy: Società Scientifica Italiana di Progettazione Meccanica e Costruzione di Macchine - AIAS  Portugal: Portuguese Structural Integrity Society - APFIE  Serbia: Structural Integrity and Life Society "Prof. Stojan Sedmak" - DIVK  Spain: Grupo Espanol de Fractura - Sociedad Espanola de Integridad Estructural – GEF Obviously, all the associations that wish to help us will be welcome! Finally, our new service: the Visual Abstracts. In order to offer to the readers a quick way to understand the papers topics, since this issue on, all the authors will be requested to prepare a Visual Abstract, a 2 minutes video with comments containing the “core” of the paper. We hope that our readers will appreciate the usefulness of this new service. Francesco Iacoviello Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale Editor in Chief