Join FESI & ESIS:
Introduction
FESI has recently been officially confirmed as the UK body representing
ESIS in the UK by the ESIS Council. More details about ESIS can be found
on their website at www.esisweb.org
. To know more about FESI click at “About FESI” at the side
of this page.
The membership fee to join ESIS through FESI for 2008 is £20.00
with a third of this fee being remitted to ESIS. An additional £5.00
will provide you with a combined membership with FESI.


There are further benefits for joining FESI and ESIS:
- 20% discount on all courses and conferences organised through FESI
- A course certificate of attendance that qualifies as Continuous Professional
Development
- A link to the ESIS website; a useful link to see the work of the ESIS
Technical Committees
- Regular updates on suitable and relevant course and conferences
- A FESI nominated representative on the ESIS management committee,
currently Professor Gordon Williams of Imperial College
- 20% discount on all EMAS Publishing publications
- A half yearly Journal from FESI electronically available through our
members forum
- 5 to 15 members from one organisation provides one free membership;
16+ members provides 2 free memberships
Your participation is very important to the success of what we are doing
in FESI, so please let us know your views. Check our Seminars and Events pages for events for 2008 so far
We hope shortly to have our Forum page up and running where you will
be able to post your comments or ask and share SI information.
Yours sincerely
John Edwards MBE
Chairman
AIMS AND ACTIVITIES of ESIS
The aim of ESIS is to continuously develop a knowledge base relating
to all aspects of Structural Integrity with the objective of improving
the safety and performance of engineering structures, components, systems
and their associated materials.
Specifically:
- To foster research and collaboration regarding the prevention of failure,
by fracture or other physical phenomena, of engineering structures,
components, systems and materials.
- To encourage interdisciplinary research into the physical behaviour
of engineering structures, components, systems and their associated
materials.
- To develop and assess new testing methods, numerical methods, and
engineering estimation methods for structural integrity assessments.
- To improve engineering designs.
- To improve manufacturing, inspection and maintenance procedures.
- To disseminate knowledge, by means of scientific publications, technical
conferences, seminars, workshops, procedure documents, and to refer
new knowledge and developments to national and international code making
bodies, including CEN and ISO, where relevant.
- To educate young engineers and scientists in structural integrity
matters.
Ten Benefits of Being an ESIS Member:
- Being made aware of the Structural Integrity activities of all ESIS
Technical Committees through the receipt of one Newsletters per year
which detail developments within the Technical and Administrative Committees
of ESIS.
- Receipt of one ESIS Recommended practice to be chosen at Membership
Renewal.
- Low-price membership subscription rates.
- Participation in any of the TCs of your choice, and their conferences,
seminars, and workshops.
- Price reductions for ESIS Journals, STPs, Conference Proceedings,
and Documents on Standards/Codes/Procedures.
- Membership of your National ESIS Committee.
- Involvement in ESIS Round-Robin test programmes.
- A booklet of ESIS members and organisations.
- Participation in the ESIS Awards Scheme.
- Involvement in organising ESIS conferences and seminars.