The editorial team from JFAP annually reviews and considers manuscripts for the Editor’s Choice Awards. After carefully reviewing the selections from the JFAP’s outstanding team of associate editors, I have the privilege of announcing the manuscripts selected for the 2021 Editor’s Choice Awards:

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Effect of Rejuvenation Heat Treatment on the Degraded Turbine Blades

Khier Sabri, Mohamed Ouali Si-Chaib, and Mohamed Gaceb

J Fail. Anal. and Preven. 21(1), 74–82 (2021)

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11668-020-01035-0

An Investigation of an Oil Barge Explosion in Corpus Christi, TX

Erik Mueller, Nancy McAtee, and David Flaherty

J Fail. Anal. and Preven. 21(1), 193–203 (2021)

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11668-020-01049-8

Case Studies in Graphitic Corrosion of Cast Iron Pipe

Tim A. Jur, James I. Middleton Jr., Anthony A. Yurko III, Ronald L. Windham, and James R. Grey Jr.

J Fail. Anal. and Preven. 21(2), 376–386 (2021)

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11668-020-01097-0

Keystone Pipeline Rupture Investigation

Matthew R. Fox and Adrienne V. Lamm

J Fail. Anal. and Preven. 21(3), 738–746 (2021)

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11668-021-01143-5

Critical Thinking in the Application of Additive Manufacturing Processes: A Review

Daniel P. Dennies

J Fail. Anal. and Preven. 21(4), 1099–1125 (2021)

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11668-021-01175-x

Liquid Metal-Assisted Cracking During Hot-Dip Galvanizing of Complex Structures: A Case Study

Tito Luiz da Silveira, Iván Uribe Perez, Tito Fernando da Silveira, and Heloisa Cunha Furtado

J Fail. Anal. and Preven. 21(5), 1652–1661 (2021)

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11668-021-01211-w

These selected manuscripts will be made available as “Free Access” through the Editor’s Choice link on the JFAP website at https://www.springer.com/journal/11668/updates/17308862, as well as through the journal’s page on SpringerLink. Normally, there is a charge to the authors for free access, but for papers selected for this honor, this benefit is free. The team at JFAP hopes this access increases visibility and access for the outstanding work reported in each.

The editorial team at JFAP wants to express our gratitude to all of the authors who submitted their work to our journal and shared their research with our readers. It is also important to acknowledge the efforts of our technical reviewers, all of whom volunteer their time to support the mission of the journal. Finally, the editorial team would like to express our appreciation to the team members at ASM International and at Springer who are responsible for all of the logistical and organizational tasks to go into publishing JFAP.

Congratulations to the authors of the manuscripts selected for the Editor’s Choice honor, and to all of the authors whose work appeared in JFAP in 2021. We hope to have the opportunity to work with you again in the future, and to continue to improve and grow JFAP in 2022.