European Structural Integrity Society

The European Society for Structural Integrity is an international non-profit engineering scientific society. Its purpose is to create and expand knowledge about all aspects of structural integrity and the dissemination of that knowledge. The goal is to improve the safety and performance of structures and components.

History

The purpose of European Structural Integrity Society dates back to November 1978 during the summer school in Darmstadt. At the time, the name was European Group on Fracture. Between 1979 and 1988 the first technical committees were created, the first technical committee had the designation of Elasto-Plastic Fracture Mechanics. The initial idea was to reproduce in Europe the same as the ASTM committee. The first president of European Structural Integrity Society was Dr. L.H. Larsson. ESIS has a total of 24 technical committees and national groups in each European country.
The current president of ESIS is Prof. Aleksandar Sedmak from the University of Belgrade.

Scientific Journals

ESIS is institutionally responsible for the following scientific journals:

Organization of International Conferences

ESIS is the organizer or supporter of various international conference series:

ECF, European Conference on Fracture
ICSI, International Conference on Structural Integrity
IRAS, International Conference on Risk Analysis and Safety of ''Complex Structures and Componentes''

Awards

ESIS, at its events, confers the following awards:

The Griffith Medal
The August-Wöhler Medal
The Award of Merit
Honorary Membership
The Young Scientist Award
Robert Moskovic Award

The [August Wöhler] Medal Winners

2022: Youshi Hong, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
2020: Filippo Berto, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
2016: Paul C. Paris, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
2014: Reinhard Pippan, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
2010: Ashok Saxena, University of Arkansas, USA
2008: Morris Sonsino, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
2006: Robert O. Ritchie, University of California, Berkeley, USA
2004: Leslie Pook, University College London, UK
2002: Michael W. Brown, The University of Sheffield, UK
2000: Darrell F. Socie, University of Illinois, USA

The Award of Merit Winners

2022: José A.F.O. Correia, University of Porto, Portugal
2020: Uwe Zerbst, Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Germany
2018: Filippo Berto, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
2016: Laszlo Toth, University of Miskolc, Hungary
2014: Wolfgang Dietzel, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Germany
2010: Jaroslav Pokluda, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
2008: Emmanuel Gdoutos, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
2006: Andrzej Neimitz, Kielce University of Technology, Poland
2004: Keith Miller, University of Sheffield, UK
2002: Dietrich Munz, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
2000: Ian Milne, Integrity Management Services, UK

The Robert Moskovic Award Winners

2023: Aleksandar Grbovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia; Marc A. Meyers, University of California, San Diego, USA; Motomichi Koyama, Tohoku University, Japan
2022: Hryhoriy Nykyforchyn, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine; John Michopoulos, United States Naval Research Laboratory, USA; Grzegorz Lesiuk, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland
2021: Maria Feng, Columbia University, USA; Filippo Berto, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway; Milan Veljkovic, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
2020: Neil James, Plymouth University, UK; Rui Calçada, University of Porto, Portugal; Vladimir Moskvichev, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
2019: Hojjat Adeli, Ohio State University, USA; Alfonso Fernández-Canteli, University of Oviedo, Spain; Aleksandar Sedmak, University of Belgrade, Serbia