Editor-in-Chief

Prof. Ferri M.H.Aliabadi

Head of Department and Professor of Aerostructures
Imperial College London
South Kensington, London SW& 2BY, UK
Tel.: +(44)44-207594-5-77
E-mail: sid@techscience.com

The Editor-in-Chief, Ferri M. H. Aliabadi, is the head of Aeronautics department and Professor of Computational Mechanics at Imperial College London.. He maintains research interests in the area of structural integrity and durability, computational mechanics and solid mechanics. He has over 500 publications, has authored two books and edited 40 other books mostly related to damage tolerance, fracture mechanics and life enhancement techniques

Ferri Aliabadi has collaborated extensively over the last twenty years with industry and in particular with the aerospace sector. He has co-ordinated and participated in many national and international projects related to innovative techniques for structural integrity, durability and damage tolerance assessment.

Honorary Editor

Prof. Satya N. Atluri

Prof. Satya Atluri's professional interests lie in the areas of aerospace and mechanical engineering. His teaching and research interests at UCI lie in the disciplinary areas of: applied mathematics; theoretical, applied, and computational mechanics of solids and fluids at various length and time scales; computer modeling in engineering and sciences; meshless and other novel computational methods; structural longevity, failure prevention, and health management.

He received Doctor of Science degrees from: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (earned); National University of Ireland (honoris causa); Slovak Academy of Sciences (honoris causa); and the University of Patras (honoris causa).

He is a Distinguished Alumnus of the Indian Institute of Science.