{"id":24,"date":"2024-12-05T12:23:33","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T11:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esis.site\/blog\/?p=24"},"modified":"2024-12-05T12:26:31","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T11:26:31","slug":"a-blog-for-discussing-fracture-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esis.site\/blog\/2024\/12\/05\/a-blog-for-discussing-fracture-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"A blog for discussing fracture papers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The aim of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.structuralintegrity.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ESIS<\/a>&nbsp;is not only to develop and extend knowledge in all aspects of structural integrity, but also to disseminate this knowledge world-wide by means of scientific publications and to educate young engineers and scientists.<br>For these purposes, three Elsevier journals &#8211;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elsevier.com\/wps\/find\/journaldescription.cws_home\/322\/description#description\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Engineering Fracture Mechanics<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;,&nbsp;<em>Engineering Failure Analysis<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>International Journal of Fatigue<\/em>&nbsp;&#8211; are published in affiliation with ESIS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Promoting and intensifying this aim is what we want to achieve through a new blog that ESIS will manage here for discussing some of the papers which appear in&nbsp;<em>Engineering Fracture Mechanics<\/em>. Its editors, Profs. Karl-Heinz Schwalbe and Tony Ingraffea,fully support this initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ESIS hopes that this blog will achieve the following objectives:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>To start a scientific discussion on relevant topics through comments by leading scientists (the chief \u2018commenter\u2019 will be Prof. Wolfgang Brocks);<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To remind the authors of papers in EFM (and all the fracture community) that perhaps they have forgotten something important which was published in the past (perhaps in old books): the policy of ESIS is to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.structuralintegrity.eu\/documents\/770.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">make some of these books available on-line<\/a>\u00a0to ESIS members;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To promote a real cross-citation of the papers and a substantive discussion of ideas in a scenario where, in spite of the easy on-line access to most journals, there is a serious tendency to restrict the number of \u2018external references\u2019 and a snobbish tendency to promote \u2018auto-citations\u2019 (to the same group, the same journal, the same country);<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To focus attention on new ideas that run the serious risk of not emerging from the noise of too much published \u201cstuff\u201d;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To induce bloggers to communicate their opinions on a paper, in particular their interpretation of the research results, thus adding new thoughts to that paper. In addition, to promote excellence in publication in a scenario where deficiencies of a paper may not have been detected by the reviewers, simply due to the pressure of time the reviewers have to do their work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The proposed rules of usage of this blog include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A group of leading scientists headed by Prof. W. Brocks will post onto this iMechanica node comments and remarks to some of the papers\u00a0\u00a0published in EFM;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The authors of the papers will receive a notification of the remarks by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/imechanica.org\/user\/23526\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ESIS Webmaster<\/a>\u00a0and they will be invited to reply through a detailed document that will appear on the ESIS website;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The replies will also be posted onto iMechanica by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/imechanica.org\/user\/23810\">ESIS<\/a>\u00a0(so that the authors do not have to worry about technical details). Hopefully, we will receive further comments and questions by other scientists\/practitioners.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To start, this blog will concentrate only&nbsp;&nbsp;on&nbsp;<strong>fracture papers<\/strong>; later other sections devoted to fatigue and other sectors of structural integrity will be added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you like the idea, then post a comment and bookmark this iMechanica node. Shortly, as soon as we will have prepared all the technical details, we will be \u2018on the air\u2019.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>S. Beretta &amp; W. Brocks<\/em>&nbsp;<em>ESIS Executive Committee<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aim of&nbsp;ESIS&nbsp;is not only to develop and extend knowledge in all aspects of structural integrity, but also to disseminate this knowledge world-wide by means of scientific publications and to educate young engineers and scientists.For these purposes, three Elsevier journals &#8211;&nbsp;Engineering Fracture Mechanics&nbsp;,&nbsp;Engineering Failure Analysis&nbsp;and&nbsp;International Journal of Fatigue&nbsp;&#8211; are published in affiliation with ESIS. 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