Mechanics of Structural Joints
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Mechanical Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 6945
Special Issue Editors
Interests: industrial engineering; civil engineering; aerospace engineering; materials science; structural mechanics; fracture mechanics; applied computational mathematics; composite materials and structures; structural junctions; retrofitting of existing structures; thin-walled beams; rheology of materials
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Interests: computational fracture mechanics; numerical/experimental analysis of structural instability; material models with continuum damage mechanics; micro-mechanics, homogenization, multiscale analysis; experimental/numerical characterization of thin panels; experimental/numerical simulation of bonded joints behavior; fracture toughness identification of structural adhesives
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Interests: experimental mechanics; finite element method; creep; biomechanics; fracture mechanics; damage mechanics; thermomechanical fatigue; composite materials; stress analysis; bonded joints
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Mechanical junctions are widely adopted for structural applications in Civil, Industrial, Automotive, Naval, and Aerospace Engineering.
Different failure modes may occur in these joints, depending on their geometry and load conditions. In the past few decades, the scientific community has formulated different approaches to predict the static and dynamic response of traditional (welded, bolted, riveted) and innovative (adhesive, hybrid, etc.) structural joints, and several experimental set-ups to experimentally evaluate their mechanical behavior have been proposed.
Within this context, further studies are needed on the local behavior of the junctions, in order to achieve general and reliable models, as well as international specific experimental standards for innovative joints.
The focus of the present Special Issue of Applied Sciences is on the computational modelling of mechanical junctions and on the investigation of their experimental behavior, and will offer an opportunity for the presentation of recent advances in this field.
This Special Issue intends to cover several topics, which include but are not limited to:
- Novel approaches to the statistical and dynamical failure of structural joints;
- Novel experimental set-up of structural joints;
- Constitutive models of adhesive joints;
- New methods for optimal design of junctions.
Prof. Dr. Valentino Paolo Berardi
Prof. Dr. Gabriele Cricrì
Dr. Michele Perrella
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fracture mechanics
- fatigue
- structural integrity
- composites
- CZM
- damage
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