TY - JOUR A1 - Zerbst, Uwe T1 - Foreword T2 - Engineering fracture mechanics N2 - The subject of this Special Issue is the fracture mechanics-based determination of the fatigue strength of weldments. Except for one, all papers were written in closer or wider relation to a methodology developed within the framework of the German Project cluster IBESS. Some of them provide background or supplementary information needed in that context but which is also relevant in a wider frame of research activities. The acronym IBESS stands for the topic of this Special Issue (in German: „Integrale Methode zu Bruchmechanischen Ermittlung der Schwingfestigkeit von Schweißverbindungen). Eight partners were involved. The cluster was cooperatively founded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) and by the German AiF Network (Arbeitsgemeinschaft industrieller Forschungsvereinigungen) for industrial research. PB - Elsevier Ltd. KW - Fracture mechanics PY - 2018 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bam/frontdoor/index/index/docId/48696 AN - OPUS4-48696 SN - 0013-7944 VL - 198 IS - SI SP - 1 EP - 1 AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany