Dear Colleague,

We have the pleasure to extend a warm welcome to everyone planning to attend the virtual 4^th International Conference on Structural Integrity (ICSI2021).

This year, due to the SARS-COV2 pandemic, we were is forced to organize the event virtually, and not in the Casino Park Hotel, as always. This was the only way to keep the healthy scientific forum achieved during the previous events.

ICSI focuses on all aspects and scales of structural integrity thematic. This ranges from basics to future trends, with special emphasis on multi-scale and multi-physics approaches, and applications to new materials and challenging environments.

The conference proceedings will be published with open-access in Elsevier’s Procedia Structural Integrity. Also, selected papers will be published in top journals.

First set of invited speakers and journals affiliated with the event are already available.

The conference will be a forum for discussion of current trends of research in structural integrity, in aeronautics and space, but also in other sectors of engineering where structural integrity is a key concern. Aim and Topics The conference topics include but are not limited to:

Please contact: Pedro M. G. P. Moreira

Phone: +351 22 041  4902

Email : icsi@icsi.pt

We are looking forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,

Pedro Moreira and Paulo Tavares.