The Co-Editors-in-Chief of the International Journal of Structural Integrity (IJSI), Professor José A.F.O. Correia and Professor Shun-Peng Zhu, would like to announce once again the 2025 International Conference on Structural Integrity (ICSI 2025) that will be held in Madeira, Portugal, by the Portuguese Structural Integrity Society (SPFIE), during September 01-04, 2025. This event will occur at the same time and location as the International Conference on Renewable Energies and Ocean Technologies (REOTech 2025). The two events (ICSI and REOTech) will address topics related to fatigue, fracture and integrity of materials and structures in general, as well as research concepts, equipment, technology, materials and structures and other scientific advances in the field of renewable energy and ocean technologies.
The editors-in-chief, Professor José A.F.O. Correia and Professor Shun-Peng Zhu, in collaboration with members of the journal’s editorial board and other colleagues, have been collaborating and concerting efforts to create an international society related to engineering and mechanics and computation, to be created by the year 2025, where the journal’s theme will be included.
2025 first issue
This 2025 second issue of the IJSI focuses on the following topics: damage, engineering structures, shield tunnel, multi-scale evolution process, model-based simulation methods, data-driven predictions methods, machine learning approaches, physics-informed neural network, numerical simulation, optimisation techniques, material reliability, damage assessment, non-linear vibrations, damping behaviour, energy dissipation analysis, magnetic field, notched stress methods, bucking, new hyperbolic shear displacement model, retrofitting, fatigue life prediction, fatigue failure, low-cycle fatigue, cyclic plasticity, sulphate-cyclic treatment, welded joints, additive manufacturing, maraging steel, polyamide, steel ring reinforcements and concrete; among others.
Liu et al. (2025) presented a comprehensive review of damage analysis methods at both the material and structural levels, where the current status of damage analysis and prediction methods from single-scale to multi-scale perspectives was collected and discussed.
Xu et al. (2025) studied the fatigue life assessment of joints processed by high-frequency mechanical impact by analysing the fatigue test data of typical strength steel welded joints, where the fatigue life curves were generated.
Dang et al. (2025) proposed a novel fatigue life prediction framework for L-DED Ti-6Al-4V based on a PINN algorithm, where the influence patterns of various fatigue-sensitive parameters were evaluated.
Pourreza et al. (2025) investigated the nonlinear dynamics of a single-layered graphene nanoplate, where the crack was arbitrarily oriented under a magnetic field’s influence. In this research, the authors studied three boundary conditions – simply supported, clamped and clamped-simply supported.
Amroune et al. (2025) introduced an innovative approach to designing truck trailer supports by utilising polyamide PA6, where the material analysis and the advanced manufacturing techniques were combined. According to the authors, this work is significant to the industry and practical standards and/or codes.
Halama and Kourousis (2025) intended an experimental evaluation of the ratcheting behaviour of maraging steel 300 fabricated by laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) additive manufacturing (AM). From this work, the authors obtained the hysteresis stress-strain response and low-cycle fatigue (LCF) life for AM MS300, including a comparison between the experimental data and numerical results.
Khalfi et al. (2025) presented a closed-form solution to analyse the buckling behaviour of orthotropic plates using a refined plate theory with four variable parameters, where the effects of boundary conditions, loading conditions, variations in modulus ratio and thickness ratio on the critical buckling load were analysed and discussed.
Salustio et al. (2025) evaluated the adhesion performance of adhesive mortars using a non-destructive vibrational analysis technique, which includes resonance frequency measurements to analyse the propagation paths of cracks in metallic samples from aircraft engines.
Aljabali et al. (2025) presented an experimental investigation on the durability of concrete beams strengthened using creative profiles with near-surface mounted (NSM) CFRP ropes under severe sulphate-cyclic conditions.
Zhang et al. (2025) presented a structural safety analysis of shield tunnels based on convergent deformation, which according to the authors, has important guiding significance for the evaluation of structural diseases, early warning and control of structural diseases at different levels of convergence deformations.
As always, co-editors-in-chief and members of the IJSI editorial board are very grateful to the editors, authors and reviewers who contributed to the first issue. Thanks to the Emerald staff for all the effort and work spent preparing this issue.
