Issue 31

Fracture and Structural Integrity, 31 (2015); ISSN 1971-9883 II Editor-in-Chief Francesco Iacoviello (Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Italy) Associate Editors Alfredo Navarro (Escuela Superior de Ingenieros, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain) Thierry Palin-Luc (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers, Paris, France) Luca Susmel (University of Sheffield, UK) John Yates (University of Manchester, UK) Guest Editors Abílio Manuel Pinho de Jesus (Universidade do Porto, Portugal) Manuel de Freitas (EDAM MIT, Portugal) Advisory Editorial Board Harm Askes (University of Sheffield, Italy) Alberto Carpinteri (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) Andrea Carpinteri (Università di Parma, Italy) Donato Firrao (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) M. Neil James (University of Plymouth, UK) Gary Marquis (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland) Robert O. Ritchie (University of California, USA) Ashok Saxena (Galgotias University, Greater Noida, UP, India; University of Arkansas, USA) Darrell F. Socie (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Shouwen Yu (Tsinghua University, China) Cetin Morris Sonsino (Fraunhofer LBF, Germany) Ramesh Talreja (Texas A&M University, USA) David Taylor (University of Dublin, Ireland) Editorial Board Stefano Beretta (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Nicola Bonora (Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Italy) Elisabeth Bowman (University of Sheffield) Roberto Citarella (Università di Salerno, Italy) Claudio Dalle Donne (EADS, Munich, Germany) Manuel de Freitas (EDAM MIT, Portugal) Vittorio Di Cocco (Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Italy) Daniele Dini (Imperial College, UK) Giuseppe Ferro (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) Tommaso Ghidini (European Space Agency - ESA-ESRIN) Paolo Leonetti (Università della Calabria, Italy) Carmine Maletta (Università della Calabria, Italy) Liviu Marsavina (University of Timisoara, Romania) Lucas Filipe Martins da Silva (University of Porto, Portugal) Hisao Matsunaga (Kyushu University, Japan) Mahmoud Mostafavi (University of Sheffield, UK) Marco Paggi (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) Oleg Plekhov (Russian Academy of Sciences, Ural Section, Moscow Russian Federation) Alessandro Pirondi (Università di Parma, Italy) Giacomo Risitano (Università di Messina, Italy) Roberto Roberti (Università di Brescia, Italy) Marco Savoia (Università di Bologna, Italy) Andrea Spagnoli (Università di Parma, Italy) Charles V. White (Kettering University, Michigan,USA)