Meccanica - Special Issue: New Approaches in Bio-Computational-Material Mechanics
Guest Editors: Prof. Giovanni Noselli, SISSA – International School for Advanced Studies, Italy Prof. Sonia Marfia, Roma Tre University, Italy Prof. Vincenzo Parenti Castelli, University of Bologna, Italy Prof. Aurora Angela Pisano, Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, Italy
Submission Status: Open | Submission Deadline: 30 April 2024
Description The aim of the Special Issue is to serve as a platform for discussions among researchers in the field of applied mechanics, with a special focus on Biomechanics, Computational Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials. The main goal is to promote and facilitate interdisciplinary exchange and the dissemination of the latest theoretical and numerical methods in these fields, which represent the forefront of applied mechanics.
Undoubtedly, the three research fields share common features in terms of modelling techniques, material constitutive hypotheses, and numerical analysis tools. These have all been rejected in different ways to address problems of mechanics that are often very different from each other, but at the same time represent a common denominator that testifies to how rigorous and mathematically-based advanced methodologies have become effective tools of general validity for interpreting complex physical phenomena in both solid and fluid mechanics.
This Special Issue aims to collect interdisciplinary contributions selected for their originality and methodologic approach within this context.
Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to one of the topics of the Special Issue.All papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, significance of contribution, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation by at least two reviewers. It is the policy of the journal that no submission, or substantially overlapping submission, be published or be under review at another journal or conference at any time during the review process. Final decisions on all papers are made by the Editor-in-Chief.
Meet the Guest Editors:
Giovanni Noselli is Associate Professor in Solid and Structural Mechanics at SISSA – International School for Advanced Studies of Trieste. He joined the mathLab group of the Mathematics Area of SISSA in 2012 and is currently head of the SAMBA and BioMat experimental laboratories. He is a member of the executive committee of the Italian group Meccanica dei Materiali (GMA) of AIMETA. His research activities include biological motility, structural and material instabilities, fracture mechanics of soft active materials and composites, complex mechanical systems, additive manufacturing. He is the author of approximately 40 publications in international journals on these research topics. A peculiarity of his research activity is a broad view of mechanics, so that open problems are tackled through the combination of experimental observation, mathematical modelling, and numerical simulation
Sonia Marfia is an Associate Professor of Solid State Mechanics at Roma Tre University, Department of Civil, Computer Science and Aeronautical Technologies Engineering. As of 2014, she has the national scientific qualification to function as a professor in Italian universities. From 2019 she is the coordinator of the committee of the Italian Group of Computational Mechanics (GIMC), and from 2017 she is a member of the General Assembly of IACM (International Association for Computational Mechanics). Her main scientific interests are focused on: a) theoretical and applied mechanics, b) homogenization and multiscale analyses for the study of the mechanical response of structural elements made of heterogeneous material characterized by a nonlinear response, c) material constitutive modeling of cohesive materials and of advanced heterogeneous materials d) modeling of fracture or detachment process adopting interface models, e) finite element and virtual element method., f) 3D printing. She has been involved in many regional and national research projects on these topics. She won several national and international scholarships that enabled her to spend a research period at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in 1999; at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2003 and at Czech Technical University of Prague in 2005, as a visiting researcher. She is the author of more than 80 Scopus research products, publications in international journals and conferences.
Vincenzo Parenti-Castelli received his Laurea degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1973 cum laude from the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna. From 1989-2020 he was Full Professor of Mechanics of Machines and is currently Professor Emeritus of Alma Mater Studiorum. He worked on gas bearings, machine design, gears, kinematic and dynamic analysis of open and closed kinematic chains, robot manipulators, and biomechanics. He is the author of many scientific publications in international journals and conference proceedings. He supervised more than 150 Masters and more than 30 Ph.D. students. He gave several invited lectures and seminars at international research institutions and universities. He holds 5 patents related to the theory of mechanisms, knee prosthesis design and laparoscopic tools. He served as Associate Editors for a number of journals and as Editor-in-Chief of Meccanica. He is currently a member of the Honorary Board of Mechanism and Machine Theory. He has received several awards, including the IFToMM 2021 Service Award and the ASME DED 2022 Mechanisms and Robotics Award.
Aurora Angela Pisano has been a Associate Professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics at the Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, Italy, since 2005. She received her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering – Structures from the University of Pavia, Italy in 1999, and her Master of Science cum laude in Civil Engineering of the University of Palermo, Italy, in 1995. Teacher in Statics, Design, Solid and Structural Mechanics courses for undergraduate students in architecture and engineering faculties. Was visiting researcher at the Instituto Superior Tecnico of Lisbon, Portugal, and at the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTNU), Norway. As of 2020, she is an adjunct professor at the School of Mechanical, Electronic and Control Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, China. Her main research interest are: non-local elasticity theory, composite materials, limit analysis numerical procedures, and biomechanics.
