The International Journal of Fracture has completed 40 years of publication. As the discipline has grown rapidly during these years, the Journal has played a key role in promoting interchanges between researchers and in archiving important progress in the area. The strong traditions of the Founding Editor-in-Chief, Max Williams, and my predecessor Richard Schapery in maintaining the focus of the Journal on the fundamental aspects of fracture continue to this day. Transition to the electronic age is now mature; all aspects of the process-from submission to typesetting to publication to archival storage - are now handled in digital form. The Publisher, Springer, has also completed the conversion of backfiles to electronic form, and high-quality .pdf files of all papers published in the Journal over the last 40 years are now available online.
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