Mechanical Design Technologies for Beam, Plate and Shell Structures (4th Edition)
A special issue of Applied Mechanics (ISSN 2673-3161).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2026 | Viewed by 87
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Interests: mechatronics and robotics; 3D printing materials and technologies; multibody dynamics; vibration and damping; smart materials and structures; computational and experimental mechanics; instrumentation and control; vibroacoustics of structures and musical instruments; structural health monitoring; impact and wave propagation; composite materiais and structures; machine elements and design; power transformers noise and vibration; engineering applications of AI
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Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue follows from the Special Issue "Mechanical Design Technologies for Beam, Plate and Shell Structures (3rd Edition)" (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applmech/special_issues/B9FA51S3NI), published in Applied Mechanics.
This Special Issue aims to compile theoretical studies and applied works on state-of-the-art computational modeling and experimental techniques used in the mechanical design of general structural engineering systems with beam, plate, and shell structural elements. We welcome papers detailing advances in fundamental theories, approximation methods, computational techniques, and experimental testing technologies. We additionally seek contributions that address modern trends and complicating effects, such as complex shapes, multi-layered structures, lattice designs, material anisotropy, structural damping treatments, smart structures, 3D-printed parts and structures, or more complicated points of analysis (such as non-linear material and geometric behaviors, multi-scale approaches, dynamic analyses, and multi-physics design activities).
Dr. César M. A. Vasques
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- beam
- plate
- shell
- computational methods
- experimental techniques
- complicating effects
- structural analysis
- mechanical design
- 3D-printed structures
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