ICEAF IV will be the fourth event of a biennial conference series commenced in Patras (2008), then subsequently was organized in Mykonos (2011) and Kos (2013), gathering high-level scientists and engineers from all over the world. The scope of the Conference is to attract interdisciplinary work dedicated to understanding the underlying physics of engineering failure, experimental and theoretical failure analysis, model the structural response with regard to local and global failure and structural design for preventing of engineering failure. Contributions are expected to cover a number of different technological areas including Aeronautics, Construction, Automotive, Marine, Rail, Bioengineering, Recycling, etc.