Structural Mechanics in Materials and Construction—2nd Edition
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Civil Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2025 | Viewed by 24
Special Issue Editors
Interests: continuum and structural mechanics; nonlinear dynamics; stability and bifurcation of dynamical systems; masonry structures; damage; aeroelasticity; perturbation methods; homogenization
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Interests: continuum and structural mechanics; nonlinear dynamics; stability and bifurcation of dynamical systems; buckling and postbuckling of elastic structures; aeroelasticity; perturbation methods
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Following the successful publication of the first edition of “Structural Mechanics in Materials and Construction”, we are pleased to launch the second edition to further explore cutting-edge research and innovations in this field.
This Special Issue is dedicated to academic researchers who want to propose their research in the framework of mechanics of solids and structures. The subject is of great interest in the field of civil and mechanical engineering.
Innovative contributions for the analysis of the mechanical behavior of materials and structures, carried out by analytical, numerical, and experimental investigations, both in deterministic and stochastic fields, even in the presence of multi-physics coupling, are welcome. The topics of structural rehabilitation and evaluation of the safety and durability of materials are also of interest.
Some of the themes considered for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Solid mechanics: continuous media, damage mechanics, contact, and multi-physics models;
- Mechanics of materials: composites, smart materials, and biological materials;
- Structural mechanics: structural elastic models, anelastic structures, engineering devices; environment–structure interactions, and reliability optimization;
- Computational mechanics: finite element and discretization methods, asymptotic methods, and homogenization;
- Dynamics and control: linear and nonlinear dynamics, wave propagation, seismic dynamics, stochastic dynamics, and active and passive control;
- Stability and bifurcation: buckling, dynamic stability, parametric excitation, and aeroelasticity;
- Experimental mechanics: measures, identification and diagnostics, and 3D printing.
Dr. Simona Di Nino
Prof. Angelo Luongo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- modeling
- materials
- structures
- dynamics
- control
- monitoring
- stability
- stocastics
- damage
- analytical methods
- computational methods
- experimental methods
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