Issue 46

Fracture and Structural Integrity, 46 (2018); ISSN 1971-9883 VIII News from Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale ear friends, Visual Abstracts have been a great success. All the papers in the July issue and in this issue are published also with this fast way to communicate the “core” of the papers and many readers really appreciated this new service. For this reason, Visual Abstracts will not only be offered in the Journal website but they will also be published in the new YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3Ob2GNW8i0phNiiKjEVv0A … obviously linked to the papers! So, join the channel! The panel of “sister associations” is more and more rich. This is the up to dated list:  Czech Rep.: Asociace Strojních Inženýrů (Association of Mechanical Engineers)  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  Poland: Group of Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics of Materials and Structures  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  Ukraine: Ukrainian Society on Fracture Mechanics of Materials (USFMM) Obviously, all the associations that wish to help us will be welcome! Finally, some news about the browsable version of the journal. After the last update of the software we use to prepare this version, the browsable version will be completely available also on mobile devices (no matter the OS). Try it and enjoy! Francesco Iacoviello Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale Editor in Chief D