Meccanica - Special Issue: Analysis and Design of Shell and Spatial Structures
Guest Editors: Prof. Sigrid Adriaenssens, Princeton University, USA Prof. Amedeo Manuello, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Prof. Francesco Marmo, Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy
Submission Status: Closed
Summary and scope Shell and spatial structures are representative of some of the most efficient structural systems in which the optimized use of materials is combined with effective structural forms. The continuing development of analysis methods, design approaches and construction techniques of shell and spatial structures has resulted in an increasing interest to engineers, architects, and builders.
The Special Issue will be devoted to the design, modelling, analysis, construction, and other aspects of the technology of all types of shell and spatial structures. These may include, but are not limited to:
• Tension and membrane structures • Framed and lattice structures • Gridshells and active-bending structures • Shell roofs • Tensegrity structures • Pneumatic and inflatable structures • Active and deployable structures • Concrete • Metal • Masonry • Timber • Bio-based • Spatial structures.
The topics of the Special Issue include experimental and theoretical studies, analysis methods and approaches regarding their design, computational form finding, structural optimization, manufacturing, testing and maintenance.
Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to one of the topics of the Special Issue.All papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, significance of contribution, technical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:
Sigrid Adriaenssens’s research interests lie in the mechanics of large‐span structural surfaces under extreme loading and under resource-constraint construction conditions. She has been working on a comprehensive framework with advanced analytical formulations, numerical form finding and optimization approaches, fluid/structure interaction and machine learning models and algorithms to open new avenues for accelerated discoveries and automated optimal designs. She is a Professor at Princeton University where she directs the Form Finding Lab and teaches courses on (non‐)linear mechanics of solids and slender structures, structural design and the integration of engineering and the arts.
Amedeo Manuello is Associate Professor at the Polytechnic of Turin. He is author and co-author of more than 50 papers published in international journals and is co-author of other 90 publications such as conference proceedings and book chapters of national and international diffusion (Google scholar H index: 26). The research is devoted to innovative experimental investigations and non-destructive techniques for the study of the integrity and the durability of infrastructures and historical buildings. Since 2019 Prof. Manuello is the member of the "Association des scientifiques au service de la restauration de Notre-Dame de Paris" (https://www.scientifiquesnotre-dame.org (this opens in a new tab)). The research of Prof. Manuello is also dedicated to specific studies conducted on the instability phenomena of slender elements with thin sections, open thin sections, on snap-through instability phenomena of shells and segmental arches, instability interaction and parametric design for arches and grid-shells. Since 2020 prof. Manuello is co-Chairman of the Italian Workshop on Shells and Spatial Structures with the patronage of Sisco - Italian Society of Construction Science and of the IASS-International Association of Shells and Spatial structures.
Francesco Marmo is Associate Professor at the University of Naples Federico II, where he teaches Finite Element Analysis of Structures and Continuum and Structural Mechanics. He graduated with honors in Civil Engineering in 2004 at the University of Naples Federico II, where he also obtained a PhD degree in 2008. His research interests include assorted topics of computational mechanics applied to multi-stable structures, contact mechanics, inclusion problems, optimization of shell structures, design of bioinspired structural systems, masonry, and reinforced concrete structures.
