4 Aug 2026, 04:09 UTC28 viewsread 8 August 2026 Photo
🔗https://doi.org/10.3221/IGF-ESIS.78.06
🤔 How does low-velocity impact energy affect the hidden residual stresses in composite structures? Accurately measuring these internal forces has always been a major challenge, limiting our ability to predict post-impact strength.
💡Using a novel hole-drilling and interferometry approach, researchers have successfully quantified residual stresses in carbon fiber plates for imp…
Signed Francesco Iacoviello
18 Jul 2026, 05:29 UTC67 viewsread 8 August 2026 Photo
📢 Important Update: We are moving to a new LinkedIn Page!
To provide our global community with a more modern, streamlined, and enhanced user experience, the Gruppo Italiano Frattura profile is migrating to the official LinkedIn Page of our flagship journal: Fracture and Structural Integrity.
As our network grows more international every day, this new page will serve as a unified hub for all our scientific updates, op…
Signed Francesco Iacoviello
15 Jul 2026, 07:09 UTC63 viewsread 8 August 2026 Photo
🔗https://doi.org/10.3221/IGF-ESIS.78.04
🤔 Assessing fatigue under Sine-on-Random (SoR) vibrations is a major analytical challenge in aerospace and structural dynamics. Time-domain rainflow counting is accurate but computationally prohibitive, while standard frequency-domain spectral methods fail due to non-Gaussian signal characteristics.
💡Our new comparative study evaluates theoretical and practical SoR fatigue as…
Signed Francesco Iacoviello
14 Jul 2026, 17:24 UTC77 viewsread 8 August 2026 Photo
🔗https://doi.org/10.3221/IGF-ESIS.78.02
🤔Quenching low-carbon steel often forces a difficult compromise: water boosts strength but reduces ductility and risks cracking, while oil quenching introduces severe fire and environmental hazards. How can we optimize mechanical performance safely and sustainably?
💡Recent research highlights a 0.1% Carboxymethyl Cellulose (CMC) aqueous solution as a highly effective, "green"…
Signed Francesco Iacoviello
14 Jul 2026, 17:23 UTC69 viewsread 8 August 2026 Photo
🔗https://doi.org/10.3221/IGF-ESIS.78.01
🤔Joining dissimilar metals like cast iron and structural steel offers great design flexibility, but it can be a structural nightmare. Different thermal expansions and conductivities during welding create severe residual stresses and distortions, threatening the integrity of hybrid components.
💡Our latest research introduces an experimentally validated Finite Element (FE) mode…
Signed Francesco Iacoviello
14 Jul 2026, 17:16 UTC66 viewsread 8 August 2026 Photo
🔗https://doi.org/10.3221/IGF-ESIS.78.03
🤔Epoxy resins are essential for aerospace and automotive manufacturing, but their inherent brittleness severely limits their structural applications. How can we overcome this critical flaw?
💡Recent research shows that reinforcing epoxy with ultra-low concentrations of hybrid graphene and silica (SiO₂) nanoparticles transforms its mechanical performance. These nanofillers crea…
Signed Francesco Iacoviello
17 Jun 2026, 16:08 UTC105 viewsread 8 August 2026 Photo
🚀 Big news for Fracture and Structural Integrity! 🚀
We are thrilled to announce that the new official journal metrics have just been released, and they confirm a fantastic trend of growth and international recognition for our journal! 📈✨
Here are the key highlights for this year:
CiteScore 2025 has risen to 3.8 (up from 3.4)! This solidifies our Q2 ranking across all three Scopus indexed categories.
Impact Factor has…
Signed Francesco Iacoviello
15 Jun 2026, 07:10 UTC79 viewsread 8 August 2026 Photo
🎉 1,000 Visual Abstracts and Counting! 🎉
We have officially hit a massive milestone: over 1,000 Visual Abstracts are now live on our YouTube channel!
For those who don’t know, our Visual Abstracts are bite-sized, 2-minute presentations delivering the absolute "heart" of the papers published in Fracture and Structural Integrity. It is high-level research, distilled for maximum impact and quick learning.
A huge thank y…
Signed Francesco Iacoviello
14 Jun 2026, 05:23 UTC68 viewsread 8 August 2026 Photo
🔗 https://doi.org/10.3221/IGF-ESIS.77.24
🤔 Machining advanced Metal Matrix Composites is notoriously challenging. The abrasive reinforcing nanoparticles often cause rapid tool wear and poor surface finishes during conventional machining.
💡A recent study on Al7075/n-TiC nanocomposites reveals a solution. Adding 3 wt.% of nanoscale TiC boosts hardness by 28.5%, tensile strength by 24.4%, and wear resistance by 33.7%…
Signed Francesco Iacoviello
14 Jun 2026, 03:28 UTC69 viewsread 8 August 2026 Photo
🔗 https://doi.org/10.3221/IGF-ESIS.77.23
🤔 Fatigue remains the primary cause of structural failure in mechanical components during service. Predicting exactly when and where surface-hardened parts will fail under cyclic loads has historically been a complex engineering challenge.
💡A recent study introduces an accurate predictive model using the local fatigue limit approach. By integrating microhardness profiles, r…
Signed Francesco Iacoviello
13 Jun 2026, 06:43 UTC52 viewsread 8 August 2026 Photo
🔗 https://doi.org/10.3221/IGF-ESIS.77.22
🤔 Material Extrusion Additive Manufacturing (MEAM) is a multiphase process that enables a rapid and safe production of metallic components. However, process-induced defects may have a detrimental effect on the fatigue behavior, which is still not fully understood. In addition, the influence of geometry remains unclear.
💡Can thickness variation affect the response of the mat…
Signed Francesco Iacoviello
5 Jun 2026, 04:46 UTC69 viewsread 8 August 2026 Photo
🔗 https://doi.org/10.3221/IGF-ESIS.77.21
🤔 Microscopic manufacturing defects in Friction Stir Welding (FSW) pose a critical threat to aerospace structural integrity. Even hidden flaws can drastically compromise the fatigue life of lightweight aircraft components.
💡A new study exposes the exact danger of these defects in aluminum alloys. Researchers found that Lack-of-Penetration (LOP) defects are the deadliest, re…
Signed Francesco Iacoviello
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