April 2018
The browsable journal is available at this link
Since 2007, we used the Open Journal System (OJS) only as a sort of “papers archiving” software, managing all the activities of the IGF journal via mail (submission, reviewing etc). Well, at the end of 2017 the new OJS 3.0 was finally available and we decided to upgrade and to manage all the activities of Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale using OJS.
I am pleased to announce that the new journal website is online and completely active at the following address: http://www.fracturae.com/index.php/fis
From now on, all the publishing process, starting from the first submission up to the final publication, will be completely followed using this journal managing system. We hope you will also appreciate the new template we adopted for the Journal website: light and responsive, it is the perfect template for the IGF Journal!
I wish to remember that all the services that are offered by the journal are described in the new website (e.g., audioslides, videos embedded in papers, Publons for reviewers, browsable versions) and that we are open to your suggestions. Please, fill the form “Suggestions” you find in the menu “About” (it takes a couple of minutes) and we will be grateful for your suggestions/help/support/ideas!
Finally, with the new Journal website, we also activated a panel of “sister associations” that wish to help the journal in its daily life. I am honored to inform you that many associations already joined us in this panel and many others will join us in a frame of friendship and cooperation. The list of the sister associations actually is:
As a “Post Scriptum”, I wish to remember the meeting of the Editorial Board that will be held in Cassino (June 4th) during the IGF Workshop entitled Fracture and Structural Integrity: ten years of “Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale”. You are all invited to the meeting and to the workshop… join us!
The ultimate goal in hot roll pass design is to manufacture a rolled product with the required dimensional accuracy, defect free surface, and mechanical properties. The proper selection of process parameters is crucial to meet increasing…
The effect of water-cement ratio on abrasion resistance, porosity and hydraulic conductivity coefficient of Nano silica concrete have been studied in this research (paper). The compressive strength of concrete in a particular temperature…
Shear strength is one of the properties often used to qualify a wood species for use in industry. But until now there is no standardized test which allows understanding this phenomenon. This paper constitutes a new approach to study the…
Multi-cluster staged fracturing technology is an effective measure to stimulate the reservoir properties. However, the inter-cluster interference effect is obvious when the cluster spacing is very narrow, which seriously affects the effect…
As often done in design practice, the Wöhler curve of a specimen, in the absence of more direct information, can be crudely retrieved by interpolating with a power-law curve between static strength at a given conventional low number of…
Rocks may exhibit time-dependent behaviors. Long-term strength criterion significantly dominates creep failure of rocks. Rocks contain many microcracks, which lead to degrade of long-term strength. In this paper, it is assumed that there…
In this article the plain elasticity problem for a semi-strip with a transverse crack is investigated in the different cases of the boundary conditions at the semi-strip’s end. Unlike many works dedicated to this subject, the fixed…
This paper presents an experimental and numerical characterization, typical for adhesive aerospace applications. The task is carrying two steps. The first consists on the analysis of a single lap joint produced by a carbon fiber fabric…
Performance of Friction Stir Welding (FSW) as a solid-state process is approved in several engineering applications, especially aluminum industries. Identification of mechanical behavior of the associated welded zone is necessary due to…
The paper focuses on the effects of shear deformation and shear forces on the mode II contribution to the energy release rate in delaminated beams. A critical review of the relevant literature is presented, starting from the end-notched…
The Bonora damage model was extended to account for shear-controlled damage. To this purpose, a new definition for the damage dissipation potential in which an explicit dependence on the third invariant of deviatoric stress was proposed.…
The main aim of this study is to assess the effectiveness of a composite repair system in severely corroded circumferential welds in super duplex stainless steel pipes as a preventive measure against the premature corrosion damage at the…
The extended Bonora damage model was used to investigate joinability of materials in self-piercing riveting process. This updated model formulation accounts for void nucleation and growth process and shear-controlled damage which is…
Shape memory alloys (SMAs) are a wide class of materials characterized by the property to recover the initial shape. This property is due to ability of alloys to change the microstructure from a “parent” microstructure (usually called…
