Structural Stability across Scales
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Simulation and Design".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 April 2024) | Viewed by 175
Special Issue Editor
Interests: dynamic stability of structural systems; thermo-hydro-mechanical constitutive behavior of cementitious materials at high temperatures; coupled multi-physics formulations for multi-phase, porous media in unsaturated regime; high-performance concrete characterization and modeling; large strain formulation; plasticity of building materials
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is aimed at gathering contributions from researchers, scientists, and experts from all areas of solid and structural mechanics in the field of buckling and post-buckling of structures and/or biological tissues at all scales. Authors are encouraged to present their recent advances in the field of theoretical and numerical formulations, as well as experimental studies, to address instability phenomena in cutting-edge applications, such as the following: flutter of wings, flags, and pipes; applications in electromechanics; robotics; biomechanics; wave energy converters; stability of slender structures (beams, plates, shells, and sandwich structures); stability of nano-structures in advanced materials; buckling in infrastructures (pipelines and rail). Contributions investigating theories and applications involving cross-disciplinary areas are particularly encouraged.
The studies are not limited to conventional materials but are open to smart materials, biological tissues, adaptive, morphing, and multistable structures, as well as orthotropic and anisotropic media. Further, instability, both under static and dynamic forces, is an object of interest. Investigations extended at all scales are welcome, from nano-, to film, to lattice, up to the homogeneous macroscale.
The subjects include, but are not strictly limited to, the following topics:
- Instability in beams, plates, shells, and composite structures.
- Instability in elastic, hyperelastic, inelastic, and adaptative materials.
- Instability in isotropic, orthotropic, and anisotropic media.
- Instability under static or dynamic forces.
- Instability at macro-to-nano scales, including non-local effects.
- Numerical solutions and experimental techniques for addressing structural and material stability.
Prof. Dr. Carmelo Majorana
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- instability
- bifurcation
- geometric nonlinearity
- computational/applied/theoretical mechanics
- macro- to nano-scale
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