September 15, 2026
Physics-informed Machine Learning and Its Structural Integrity Applications (Part 2)—An Update
In November 2023, Royal Society Publishing published online the second part of a theme issue of Philosophical Transactions A entitled \'Physics-informed Machine Learning and its Structural Integrity A...
August 13, 2026
VACANCY—Senior Structural Integrity Engineer, UK Atomic Energy Authority
The following role of Senior Structural Integrity Engineer at the UKAEA is currently being advertised. Salary: £57,117 (inclusive of Specialist Allowance) + excellent benefits including outstanding p...
June 2, 2026
Reflections on ESIA18–ISSI2026
Our joint conference ESIA18–ISSI2026, held in Glasgow on May 18–20, was a resounding success and we would like to extend our sincere thanks to all speakers, delegates, partners, organisers and our...
July 7, 2025
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A — Themed Issue Dedicated to Peter Flewitt
A themed issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A has recently been published and is dedicated to the memory of FESI Director Professor Peter Flewitt. Based on the TAGSI/FESI Sym...
May 12, 2025
VACANCY—Structural Integrity Engineer (Fatigue) at Amentum UK
Job ID: EST0004LFLocation: Risley, UKHours: Full timeAbout the Opportunity Materials Science & Structural Integrity (MSSI) lead research, solve critical client challenges and set industry standard...
May 12, 2025
VACANCY—Materials Testing Engineer at Amentum UK
Job ID: EST0004LELocation: Risley, UKHours: Full time About the Opportunity Materials Science & Structural Integrity (MSSI) lead research, solve critical client challenges and set industry standa...
January 28, 2025
Obituary
Professor Roderick A Smith ScD FREng (December 26, 1947–December 26, 2024) It is with profound sadness that we reflect on the sudden passing of Professor Roderick Smith, Director of FESI, who died o...
January 7, 2025
FESI Director Emeritus Professor Roderick Smith
Our Director Emeritus Professor Roderick Smith has unfortunately passed away following a sudden and shocking accident whilst out walking in the Lake District on Boxing Day, December 26, 2024. We are c...
January 2, 2025
R5 and R6 Newsletter, No. 56, December 2024
Issued by the R5 and R6 Panels This newsletter has historically been produced on a biannual basis to keep users informed of current developments in the R5 and R6 procedures. This latest issue of the R...
December 5, 2024
High-Fidelity Reliability Assessment Theme
1. Introduction Recent advancements in full-field measurement methods (Material Testing 2.0), combined with increased computational power and high-fidelity modelling tools like multiscale modelling an...
November 29, 2024
VACANCY—Structural Integrity Engineer at Amentum UK
Location: Birchwood, Warrington, UKWe’ll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow. We offer an exciting range of opportunit...
November 19, 2024
Net-Zero Position Paper Released
Engineering Structural Integrity: A Vital Enabler for Net-Zero The UK’s journey to net-zero carbon emissions depends on Engineering Structural Integrity (ESI) skills, methods, and activities for re...
October 1, 2024
In Memoriam: Professor Peter Flewitt
We are deeply saddened to have to report that FESI Director, Professor Peter Flewitt, passed away on the September 21, 2024. Peter has been a director of FESI since the forum was formed over 20 yea...
August 21, 2024
Opportunity Through Innovate UK Business Connect
Innovate Exchange Challenge: Improving the Safe Management of Ageing Spring Hangers Innovate UK Business Connect is supporting the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) in seeking innovators who can...
June 28, 2024
VACANCY—UK Atomic Energy Authority Structural Integrity Engineer
The following role of Structural Integrity Engineer at the UKAEA is currently being advertised. Location: Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, England, United KingdomHours: Full-timeSalary: £38,620 (incl...
April 12, 2024
Creep Expert Needed: European Technology Development Ltd
Due to their expanding services and continued demand for new or repeat work, European Technology Development Ltd (ETD) is actively seeking an expert in areas such as creep, fatigue, corrosion, high te...
March 8, 2024
Postdoctoral Research Associate—University of Oxford
A full-time Postdoctoral Research Associate in Phase Field Modeling of Corrosion Fatigue is being sought to join Professor Emilio Martinez-Paneda’s research group (the Mechanics of Materials Lab) at...
November 22, 2023
Physics-informed Machine Learning and Its Structural Integrity Applications (Part 2)
Royal Society Publishing has recently published Part II of a special double issue of Philosophical Transactions A: Physics-informed Machine Learning and Its Structural Integrity Applications (Part 2) ...
November 19, 2023
Alternative Materials and Joining (FESI–SECC Webinar)
The UK Forum for Engineering Structural Integrity (FESI) Student and Early Careers Council (SECC) would like to invite you to listen in to a discussion of structural integrity and its importance in sa...
October 10, 2023
PhD Studentship—University of Strathclyde/Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy
Structural integrity enhancement of offshore wind turbine support structures using advanced fatigue assessment methods A four-year PhD studentship, funded by EPSRC and Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy,...
October 9, 2023
Physics-informed Machine Learning and Its Structural Integrity Applications (Part 1)
Royal Society Publishing has recently published Part I of a special themed double issue of Philosophical Transactions A: Physics-informed Machine Learning and Its Structural Integrity Applications (Pa...
July 4, 2023
R5 and R6 Newsletter, No. 55, June 2023
Issued by the R5 and R6 Panels This newsletter has historically been produced on a biannual basis to keep users informed of current developments in the R5 and R6 procedures. However, as a result of pe...
June 27, 2023
ESIA17–ISSI2023: Award Winners
The 17th International Conference on Engineering Structural Integrity Assessment and 2023 International Symposium on Structural Integrity (ESIA17–ISSI2023) was held on May 23–25, 2023 at The Lowry...
April 13, 2023
Career Opportunity: UKAEA Chair (Qualification for Fusion), University of Sheffield
The following vacancy at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Sheffield is currently being advertised. Sheffield University and the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UK...
April 12, 2023
Career Opportunity: UKAEA Chair (Fusion Materials), University of Sheffield
Sheffield University are seeking to appoint a chair of international renown to provide academic leadership in Fusion Materials. The University and the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) have establish...
September 1, 2022
Future Challenges In Assessing Environmentally Assisted Cracking
*This event has now been cancelled. We hope to rearrange a new date for the workshop in 2023* FESI has organised workshop to be held on November 22, 2022 that will explore the future challenges in ass...
August 30, 2022
Pitting Corrosion and Pit-to-Crack Transition Workshop
FESI and the University of Bristol have organised a workshop, to be held at the University of Bristol on October 25, 2022, that will explore the current state of pitting corrosion and pit-to-crack tr...
March 15, 2022
A Letter From the ESIS President
Dear friends, We are all aware of the terrible events in Ukraine. I am writing this email to share with all of you how these terrible events involve ESIS. On March 3, 2022, I received a letter from th...
March 4, 2022
PhD/EngD Studentships in Offshore Renewable Energy Structures
The Wind & Marine Energy Systems & Structures (WAMSS) is an EPSRC-funded Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT), led by the University of Strathclyde, working collaboratively with Universities of ...
November 10, 2021
Career Opportunity: Assistant Professor (Research), Coventry University
The following job vacancy at the Manufacturing and Materials Centre, Research Institute for Clean Growth and Future Mobility at Coventry University is currently advertised. The Structural Integrity a...
October 26, 2021
ESIA16: First Impressions
FESI’s 16th International Conference on Engineering Structural Integrity Assessment (ESIA16) took place via Microsoft TEAMS on the afternoons of October 6–8, 2021. Professor Peter Flewitt, a FESI...
October 25, 2021
This is Engineering Day
This is Engineering Day will return for its third year on Wednesday November 3, 2021. The day is a nationwide initiative dedicated to challenging narrow public perceptions of the profession by raising...
September 17, 2021
ESIA16: Speaker’s Abstracts
The 16th biennial Conference on Engineering Structural Integrity Assessment (ESIA16) is fast approaching and, for the first time, is being held online via TEAMS. If you have not already done so, there...
May 25, 2021
FESI Student and Early Career Council
On Friday, May 14, 2021, the first FESI Student and Early Career Council (SEC) meeting was held. The SEC Council has been established as the next generation’s voice to support FESI in influencing an...
May 21, 2021
Introducing Yifeng Zhang: FESI’s New Social Media Officer
Over the past few months, there has been a fairly significant restructuring of FESI, including the establishment of a Student and Early Career (SEC) Council. Following the first SEC meeting, held on M...
January 21, 2021
Career Opportunities at Sellafield Ltd: Technical Advisers/Managers
Sellafield Ltd is recruiting to fill a range of Technical Adviser and Technical Manager vacancies. The successful candidates will join one of Sellafield\'s multi-disciplinary Technical Teams, working ...
December 15, 2020
Joint FESI–IOM3 Webinar Series
Engineering structural integrity brings together the fields of materials science, structural engineering and many other disciplines to analyse whether a structure is fit for purpose. This could be any...
November 17, 2020
Royal Society Event Video: Fracture Stranger Than Friction
On October 19, 2020 the Royal Society hosted an online discussion meeting organised by Dr Kevin Kendall FRS, Professor Anthony Kinloch FREng FRS, Professor William Clegg and Dr Siva Bohm. The title o...
October 21, 2020
FESI Virtual Workshop No. 3: Additive Manufacturing Related to Nuclear
We are pleased to announce that the third FESI Virtual Workshop is to be held on Thursday, December 10, 2020. The speakers for this workshop, thematically Additive Manufacturing Related to Nuclear, h...
October 13, 2020
FESI Virtual Workshop No. 2: Additive Manufacturing Related to Aerospace
We are pleased to announce the second of a series of FESI Virtual Workshops on Additive Manufacturing Related to Aerospace that is to be held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020 between 10.0 0am and 12.00 p...
October 13, 2020
An Online Audience With Lord John Browne
Friends of FESI are invited to listen in to an online audience with Lord John Browne FRS, FREng on Wednesday, October 28, 2020 between 14:00–15:00. The broadcast will be available via Microsoft Tea...
September 25, 2020
Alan Turing Institute SIG: Data Science for Engineering Structural Integrity
Professor Paul Wilcox and Dr Mahmoud Mostafavi from the University of Bristol are applying to set up a Special Interest Group (SIG) at the Alan Turing Institute (the UK national institute for data sci...
September 11, 2020
FESI Virtual Workshop No. 1
The ongoing COVID-19 crisis has, like many organisations across the world, caused continued disruption to live event programming. The TAGSI–FESI Symposium that we had originally planned for April 2...
September 7, 2020
Engineers in the Age of COVID-19
On New Year’s Eve 2019 very few of us could have foreseen the global impact in 2020 of the outbreak of a novel coronavirus in Wuhan City, China. The zoonotic disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, ...
August 21, 2020
Notes on the COVID-19 Emergency in the UK: Statistics, Transport, Implications
Introduction I started plotting data at the beginning of the lockdown (mid-March) in order to use statistical techniques to identify critical turning points. However, I soon gave up plotting daily dea...
March 5, 2020
FESI Themes, Part 4: Probabilistic Structural Integrity
It has previously been highlighted (see FESI Bulletin, Autumn/Winter 2019) that various key “themes” have been identified as part of a more structured approach going forward on the way we go about...
March 5, 2020
FESI Themes, Part 3: Environmentally Assisted Cracking
It has previously been highlighted (see The FESI Bulletin, Autumn/Winter 2019) that various key \'themes\' have been identified as part of a more structured approach going forward on the way we go abo...
March 5, 2020
FESI Themes, Part 2: Codes, Standards, Procedures, and Guidance Documents
It has previously been highlighted (see The FESI Bulletin, Autumn/Winter 2019) that various key \'themes\' have been identified as part of a more structured approach going forward on the way we go abo...
March 5, 2020
FESI Themes, Part 1: New Manufacturing and Joining Techniques
It has previously been highlighted (see The FESI Bulletin, Autumn/Winter 2019) that various key \'themes\' have been identified as part of a more structured approach going forward on the way we go abo...
February 4, 2020
Career Opportunities at the University of Bristol, Faculty of Engineering
NNUF Hot Robotics Co-ordinator About the role Flexible, full or part-time opportunity to support a key area of the University’s applied research. The University of Bristol has an established and gro...
February 4, 2020
Career Opportunities at the University of Bristol, School of Physics
The School of Physics is looking to appoint an NNUF Materials Archive Project Officer to support tasks associated with the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council funded grant EP/T011394/1 ...
February 4, 2020
PhD Opportunity in the Physics and Mechanics of Creep Cavity Nucleation and Sintering in Energy Materials
The Project Introduction and BackgroundCreep strength enhanced ferritic (CSEF) steels are a group of steels which offer the potential for excellent physical and mechanical properties. Grade 91 and Gra...
February 3, 2020
Novel Materials and Engineering Solutions for High Temperature Power Generation Plant
This workshop–seminar, that was primarily organised by Professor Martyn Pavier, was attended by approximately 30 delegates from various industrial companies and universities on January 23, 2020 at t...
January 30, 2020
PhD Opportunity in Modelling of Stress Corrosion Cracking in Nuclear Materials
This PhD project at The University of Manchester is a chance to work on stress corrosion cracking research on nickel based alloys in partnership with Wood Plc. Starting in September 2020, the project ...
September 25, 2019
FESI Co-organised Addititive Manufacturing Symposia Embedded in ESIAM19
The First European Conference on Structural Integrity of Additive Manufactured Materials (ESIAM19) was held at Trondheim, Norway, September 9–11, 2019. Two symposia entitled Metal Additive Manufactu...
September 6, 2019
Beyond Code Safety Requirements for Nuclear Pressure Systems: Conclusions
A one day workshop organised jointly by FESI and the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) on Beyond Code Safety Requirements for Nuclear Pressure Systems was held at BAWA, Filton, near Bristol, on Apr...
May 29, 2019
Nuclear Structural Integrity Probabilistics Working Principles
The document Nuclear Structural Integrity Probabilistics Working Principles (NSIPWP) has been generated by the Nuclear Structural Integrity Probabilistics Working Group coordinated by Mr Michael Mart...
May 13, 2019
Beyond Code Safety Requirements: FESI/ONR Workshop Presentations
In our last post, FESI\'s Chief Technical Advisor John Sharples provided a preliminary report of a one day workshop organised jointly by FESI and the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) on April 10, 2...
April 18, 2019
FESI/ONR Workshop: Preliminary Report
A one day workshop organised jointly by FESI and the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) on Beyond Code Safety Requirements for Nuclear Pressure Systems was held at BAWA, Filton, near Bristol, on 10th...
February 1, 2019
Fundamentals of Fracture Mechanics
The late Professor John Knott OBE FRS FREng generously donated his seminal book, Fundamentals of Fracture Mechanics, to the UK Forum for Structural Integrity so that it might be distributed free of ch...