Issue 9

Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, 9 (2009) Notiziario IGF 160 was held in the reconstructed Vannieck gallery. During the dinner, the conference chairman and the ESIS president traditionally passed the ESIS awards on C. M. Sonsino (the Wöhler Medal), A. Carpinteri (the Griffith Medal), R. A. Ainsworth (the Honorary Membership) and E. Gdoutos (the Award of Merit). The music band Jazz Archive dulcified the atmosphere of both the ceremony and the following free entertainment. Final assessment According to reactions of many participants and authorities during and after the conference, the ECF17 very successfully continued the old tradition of primary ESIS conferences. ESIS Awards ESIS President Prof. Gdoutos and ECF17 Chaimen conferred the ESIS Awards during the Social Dinner: - Griffith Medal to Prof A. Carpinteri, “for his outstanding theoretical results achieved in the field of fracture mechanics and their successful applications, especially those devoted to the improvement of structural integrity in civil engineering”; - Wöhler Medal to Prof. C. M. Sonsino, “for his outstanding contributions to the field of fatigue, especially those devoted to the multiaxial- and variable amplitude loading”; - Award of Merit to Prof. E. Gdoutos, “for his outstanding research in the field of fracture mechanics and for hiswork devoted to the advancement of the European Structural Integrity Society”; - Honorary Membership to Dr. R. A. Ainsworth, “for his outstanding contributions to the fields of fracture and structural integrity design as well as for his work devoted to the advancement of the European Structural Integrity Society”. Further informations about ESIS activities can be found at: www.structuralintegrity.eu . ESIS Awards conferred at ECF17 (from left): J. Pokluda (ECF17 Co-chaiman), C.M. Sonsino (Wohler Medal), E. Gdoutos (Award of Merit), A. Carpinteri (Griffith Medal), R.A. Ainsworth (Honorary Membership), P. Lukas (ECF17 Co-chaiman). ESIS – TC3 activity - Professor Andrea Carpinteri (Parma), Professor Les P. Pook (London) and Professor Andrea Spagnoli (Parma) : Guest Editors of a Special Issue on “Crack Paths” of the International Journal “Engineering Fracture Mechanics”, Vol.75, No.3-4, 297-900, 2008, with papers selected from those presented at the International Conference on “Crack Paths (CP 2006)”, held in Parma, Italy, 14 th to 16 th September, 2006. - Professor Bruno Atzori (Padua), Professor Andrea Carpinteri (Parma), Professor Paolo Lazzarin (Padua) and Professor Les P. Pook (London): Chairmen of the 3 rd International Conference on “Crack Paths (CP 2009)”, to be held in Vicenza (60 Km from Venice), Italy, 23 rd to 25 th September, 2009. - Professor Andrea Carpinteri (Parma), Professor Les P. Pook (London) and Professor Cetin Morris Sonsino (Darmstadt): Chairmen of the 9 th International Conference on Multiaxial Fatigue and Fracture (ICMFF9), to be held in Parma, Italy, 7 th to 10 th June, 2010.