Preface of the 53rd Conference of the Italian Scientific Society of Mechanical Engineering Design (AIAS 2024)

Galietti, Umberto; Arcidiacono, Gabriele; Armentani, Enrico; Castagnetti, Davide; Fontanari, Vigilio; Somà, Aurelio; Bonora, Nicola

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Preface of the 53rd Conference of the Italian Scientific Society of Mechanical Engineering Design (AIAS 2024)^†

by

Umberto Galietti

¹,

Gabriele Arcidiacono

²

,

Enrico Armentani

³

,

Davide Castagnetti

⁴,

Vigilio Fontanari

⁵

,

Aurelio Somà

⁶

and

Nicola Bonora

^7,*

¹

Department of Mechanics, Mathematics and Management, Politecnico di Bari, 70126 Bari, Italy

²

Department of Engineering Science, Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi, 00193 Rome, Italy

³

Department of Chemical, Materials and Production Engineering, Università di Napoli Federico II, 80125 Naples, Italy

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Department of Sciences and Methods for Engineering, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, 42122 Reggio Emilia, Italy

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Department of Industrial Engineering, Università di Trento, 38123 Trento, Italy

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Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Turin, Italy

⁷

Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, 03043 Cassino, Italy

^*

Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

^†

All proceeding papers published in this volume were presented at the 53rd Conference of the Italian Scientific Society of Mechanical Engineering Design (AIAS 2024), Naples, Italy, 4–7 September 2024.

Eng. Proc. 2025, 85(1), 55; https://doi.org/10.3390/engproc2025085055

Published: 29 April 2025

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 53rd Conference of the Italian Scientific Society of Mechanical Engineering Design)

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1. Introduction

The Italian Association for Stress Analysis (AIAS) was founded in 1971 by researchers from academia, research centers and industry. AIAS was intended as a community which discusses, shares and develops scientific knowledge related to all technical aspects of stress analysis. From an initial focus on experimental techniques, AIAS went on to contribute considerably to the development of modern numerical methods and computational techniques for mechanical engineering design. In 2015, AIAS evolved into the Italian Scientific Society of Mechanical Engineering Design.

Today, AIAS is an institutional partner that supports academia in the subject area of mechanical engineering design. Every year, AIAS organizes a technical conference offering the possibility to present research updates, share new ideas and foster collaborations. The AIAS conference has become a fundamental event for all those interested in current developments in mechanical engineering design and stress analysis, where they can meet researchers and testing equipment and software developers.

The 53rd AIAS Conference was held in Naples, Italy. The response of researchers and students was outstanding: over 240 oral contributions were presented during the three days of the conference, with four parallel sessions and a time slot of 15 min assigned to each presenter. In addition to the thematic sessions on AIAS traditional subjects, special sessions on additive manufacturing, energy methods for structural analysis, circular design in mechanical engineering, and mechanical behavior under extreme conditions were successfully organized with the contribution of the AIAS technical committees. All sessions were continuously monitored by the organizers to provide technical support. The conference ran smoothly, and participant feedback was incredibly positive.

Among all contributions presented at the conference, 54 were selected to be published in this volume after peer review. This was made possible thanks to the active participation of all AIAS members, the work of the AIAS Scientific Committee panel (Professors Umberto Galietti (AIAS Scientific Coordinator), Gabriele Arcidiacono (AIAS Scientific Coordinator for External Relationships), Enrico Armentani, Davide Castagnetti, Virgilio Fontanari and Aurelio Somà) and the conference papers reviewers. Their outstanding contribution is gratefully acknowledged.

Scope and Topics

−: Fatigue and fracture;
−: Automotive;
−: Materials at extreme conditions;
−: Mechanics of materials;
−: Biomechanics;
−: Additive manufacturing;
−: Composite materials;
−: Circular design;
−: Modeling;
−: Dynamics;
−: Experimental mechanics;
−: Mechanical design;
−: Energetic methods for stress analysis;
−: Railway engineering;
−: Joining techniques.

2. Committee Members

2.1. Organizing Committee

Prof. Francesco Caputo (Università della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”)—President
Prof. Enrico Armentani (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)
Prof. Roberto Citarella (Università degli Studi di Salerno)
Prof. Gabriele Cricrì (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)
Dott. Ing. Alessandro De Luca (Università della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”)
Prof. Francesco Penta (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)
Prof. Luca Esposito (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)
Prof. Renato Esposito (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)
Prof. Giuseppe Lamanna (Università della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”)
Dott. Ing. Venanzio Giannella (Università degli Studi di Salerno)
Dott. Ing. Donato Perfetto (Università della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”)
Prof. Michele Perrella (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)
Prof. Giovanni Pio Pucillo (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)
Prof. Raffaele Sepe (Università degli Studi di Salerno)

2.2. Scientific Committee

Prof. Umberto Galietti, Scientific Coordinator, Politecnico di Bari
Prof. Gabriele Arcidiacono, Scientific Coordinator, Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi
Prof. Aurelio Somà, Politecnico di Torino
Prof. Enrico Armentani, Università degli Studi Federico II
Prof. Vigilio Fontanari, Università degli Studi di Trento
Prof. Davide Castagnetti, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Prof. Nicola Bonora, Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale

3. Keynote Speakers

Jeong-Ha You, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, EUROfusion Consortium
Dimitrios Zarouchas, Aerospace Engineering Faculty, Delft University of Technology

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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Galietti, U., Arcidiacono, G., Armentani, E., Castagnetti, D., Fontanari, V., Somà, A., & Bonora, N. (2025). Preface of the 53rd Conference of the Italian Scientific Society of Mechanical Engineering Design (AIAS 2024). Engineering Proceedings, 85(1), 55. https://doi.org/10.3390/engproc2025085055

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