Advances in Solid Mechanics and Applications to Slender Structures

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue, which aims to gather new research in the field of solid mechanics, with a particular focus on the mechanical modeling of slender elastic elements across various length scales.

Slender elements are widespread in nature and in engineering applications. Beam models have long been used to represent their mechanical behavior across different length scales. Examples include carbon nanotubes at the nanoscale, components of offshore wind turbines and long pipelines at the macroscale (hundreds of meters), and elements for ambitious engineering projects, such as the giant space elevator, at the megascale (thousands of kilometers).

Studies of interest include the following: stress and strain predictions in slender deformable elements with mechanical properties that vary along their length; on phenomena such as instability and resonance that may threaten safety or offer opportunities for energy harvesting; and on phenomena such as partial interaction and relative slippage between individual system components, such as those observed in cables made of helically wound fibers interacting via friction or in fibers made of carbon nanotubes held together by Van der Waals interactions.

Original research articles are welcome on analytical and numerical methods for the static and dynamic modeling of slender elements across different length scales. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

1. Statics and dynamics of prismatic and non-prismatic beams and cables;
2. Dynamic stability and bifurcation phenomena;
3. Hierarchical arrangements of helical fibers and strands;
4. Analytical methods, perturbation methods, and homogenization methods;
5. Reduced order models;
6. Energy harvesting, vibration absorbers, and damping design;
7. Experimental investigations.

Dr. Giovanni Migliaccio
Dr. Giuseppe Ruta
Prof. Dr. Gianni A Royer Carfagni
Guest Editors

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