Newsletter #67-2021 10 I would like to thank to all participants of the ICSID 2021 conference for their contribution and many high-quality papers. I am very much indebted to the Scientific Committee Members for their invaluable help, suggestions and advice in the Conference organization. The Conference was supported by the Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Croatia. The support is gratefully acknowledged. Željko Božić Hungary NDT Integrity Engineering course in Hungary Having recognized that NDT competence and skills are increasingly needed to respond to current and future technological development in ensuring long term integrity of high-performance engineering structures, a new profession – NDT Integrity Engineer and consequently a new university discipline – was developed. NDT integrity engineering combines materials science with fracture mechanics to engineer a nondestructive evaluation process to safeguard the integrity of materials and structures through the use of advanced NDT practices. The Faculty of Engineering at the University of Debrecen, Hungary, and the Hungarian Association for NDT launched a two-semester postgraduate course on NDT Integrity Engineering in 2020. The course was new in Hungary and missing at international level as well. The students attended were practitioner engineers from the industry, the academic institutions and NDT service providers. The lectures were delivered by leading professors of the university and recognised engineers from the industry, many of them members of ESIS Hungarian Chapter. In completing the laboratory exercises, firms interested in both NDT technology development and service provision took part. The core part of the course dealt with NDT / NDE including the physical bases of the major methods; the application areas of the various methods and their limitations; the elements of NDT reliability; the early detection of materials degradation; the structural health monitoring; the impact of the development of information technology and micro- and nanoelectronics; modelling and simulation; and NDE 4.0. Another part of the subjects focused on materials science related issues including the potential failures associated with manufacturing; the „material’s responses” to loading and environment and their effect on the component integrity. The remaining portion of the subjects covered the loading and environmental condition related knowledge, i.e. awareness of the physical fields arising in the component during operation; the basics of analytical and numerical methods of their calculations; fracture mechanics and the overall structural integrity assessment. The entire course was characterized by an approach having safety, reliability and risk in the focus. At the end of the course the participants were asked to provide their opinion unanimously. The overall opinion was quite positive that we published in page 66 of the Hungarian periodical Anyagvizsgálók Lapja (J. of Material Testers). avilap_2021_iii.pdf . Peter Trampus Israel The 10th ISIG (Israel Structural Integrity Group) Symposium October 5th, 2021 The annual symposium of the ISIG, the Israeli Chapter of ESIS, was held this year in collaboration with the Association of Engineers and Architects in Israel (AEAI). Due to the Coronavirus pandemic restrictions in Israel, the symposium was held on October 5, 2021, by Zoom. During the symposium, 14 experts from the field of Structural Integrity from both the academia and industry gave talks on various topics related to structural integrity, fracture mechanics and failure analysis. More than 60 participants, including academic staff members from different universities, engineers, students and postdoctoral fellows attended the symposium, and according to their opinion the event was a nice success. Dov Sherman Italy Italian Group of Fracture (IGF) activites In 2021, IGF (Italian Group of Fracture) organized the 26th International Conference on Fracture and Structural Integrity (https://www.igf26.eu/) in “blended” version, both in presence, in the wonderful venue of of the Valentino’s Castle in Turin and online. The conference was a success, with about 180 participants form 24 different countries. A virtual tour was organized, in order to allow to all the
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