"Stability of Structures", in Memory of Prof. Marcello Pignataro

Dear Colleagues,

You are kindly invited to contribute to the Special Issue dedicated to the memory of the late professor Marcello Pignataro, who passed away on August 24, 2022. Professor Pignataro was one of the first of his time in Italy to attend a master in the United States, becoming close with the late professor W. T. Koiter, the father of the contemporary theory of elastic stability, of whom he considered himself a pupil. In his lifelong career at the university of Rome “La Sapienza”, professor Pignataro was the founder of the local school on stability investigations, inspiring the research interests and curiosity of his younger colleagues, who followed his path —among them, we may note Raffaele Casciaro, Nicola Rizzi, Angelo Luongo, and Giuseppe Ruta. Thus, this Special Issue is devoted to all researchers who wish to propose their studies in the fields of static and dynamic structural stability.

Welcome papers will be those that explore areas falling within the scope of CivilEng, namely: (i) static stability of civil structures, such as tall buildings, towers, reservoirs, and so on; (ii) static stability of structural elements under non-trivial loadings or in the presence of damage; (iii) dynamic stability of structures, for instance under nonconservative actions, e.g., in conjunction with fluid interaction or parametric excitation; (iv) multi-stable structural elements and their applications in civil engineering; (v) and bifurcation phenomena in innovative materials. Those are just instances of the possible topics that can explored, but of course any contribution in the field of stability will also be considered.

Dr. Giuseppe Ruta
Prof. Dr. Angelo Luongo
Guest Editors

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• structural stability
• bifurcation theory
• static buckling
• dynamic bifurcation
• fluid–structure interaction
• parametric excitation
• follower forces
• computational methods
• experimental methods