%0 editorial %@ 0013-7944 %A Zerbst, U., Heinimann, M., Dalle Donne, C. %D 2009 %J Engineering Fracture Mechanics %N 1 %P 1-2 %R doi:10.1016/j.engfracmech.2008.06.008 %T Editorial: Foreword - Integrity of Thin-walled Light-weight Structures - Concepts and Applications %U https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engfracmech.2008.06.008 1 %X One of the aims of the workshop was to honour the influential work performed over the last decades on the integrity of pre-damaged thin-walled structures by Prof. Karl-Heinz Schwalbe, former head of the Institute for Materials Research at GKSS Research Centre, and one of the present Editors-in-Chief of Engineering Fracture Mechanics.