Special Issue "Numerical Simulation of Discontinuities in Mechanics"

Guest Editor
Dr. Stefano Mariani
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Strutturale, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza L. da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy
Website: http://www.stru.polimi.it
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Phone: +39 02 2399 4279
Fax: +39 02 2399 4220
Interests: MEMS; structural sensors; kalman filtering

Guest Editor
Dr. Paolo Maria Mariano
Università di Firenze, DICeA, Via Santa Marta 3, 50139 Firenze, Italy
Website: http://www.dicea.unifi.it/paolo.mariano/
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Phone: +39 055 4796470
Interests: mechanics and thermodynamics of continua; computational methods; statistical mechanics

Guest Editor
Dr. Paolo Venini
Università di Pavia, Dipartimento di Meccanica Strutturale, Via Ferrata 1, 27100 Pavia, Italy
Website: http://www-1.unipv.it/venini/
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Phone: +39 0382 505464
Fax: +39 0382 528422
Interests: nonlinear computational mechanics; wavelet methods for strain localization problems; analysis and optimization of uncertain structures; dual mixed methods for plane elastoplasticity; active structural control with neural networks

Submission

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Article Processing Charges (APC) will be waived for well prepared manuscripts of invited papers. For the first three volumes of this new journal the APC are of 300 CHF (or 550 CHF per paper for those papers that require extensive additional formatting and/or English corrections) for papers submitted before 31 December 2010.

• solid mechanics
• fluid mechanics
• weak and strong discontinuities
• complex bodies
• multi-scale methods