Mechanics Applied in Construction Engineering
A special issue of Applied Mechanics (ISSN 2673-3161).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 18213
Special Issue Editors
Interests: continuum mechanics; structural stability; beam theory; damage modeling and identification; history of mechanics
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Interests: continuum mechanics; nanostructures; nonlocal models
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In contemporary construction engineering, structural performance demands are continually increasing. These include (but are not restricted to) resistance to fire, capability to absorb earthquake vibration, and damping towards winds in tall and slender structures. Simultaneously, from an environmental point of view, there is a growing demand for new materials that are both low-cost and low-impact.
As such, there is a strong need to employ theoretical and applied mechanics in establishing the correct framework for technological problems, resolving these problems analytically or numerically, and verifying the solutions by laboratory or in situ experiences. This Special Issue is thus devoted to all branches of mechanics that tackle challenges in the following fields:
- Modeling and realizing measurement chains and instruments for structural monitoring, aiming at the identification of key structural properties, in order to detect damage or property deterioration;
- Modeling various kinds of damage and structural deterioration in order to supply suitable data for the previous point;
- Modeling various kinds of environmental actions (especially those of wind and fluid flows surrounding tall slender structures and submerged structural parts, respectively) in order to control and mitigate their effects on the considered structure, with a special view towards vibration;
- Designing simulation, laboratory, or in situ apparatuses in order to verify theoretical models and numerical outputs;
- Modeling, designing, and testing low-cost, low-impact materials and structural components (e.g., clay panels, pultrused beams).
Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Ruta
Prof. Dr. Raffaele Barretta
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- monitoring
- identification
- mitigation
- fluid–structure interaction
- control
- simulation
- in situ measures
- damage modeling
- environmental actions
- low-impact materials
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