Volume 25, Issue 2-4

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March 2013

Pursuing the Progress of Mechanics, in the Spirit of the Founders, A special issue on the occasion of the retirement of Prof. Gianpietro Del Piero

Issue Editors:

Francesco dell'Isola,
Samuel Forest

25 articles in this issue

Gianpietro Del Piero: a scientist on the edge between engineering sciences and functional analysis
Francesco dell’Isola
Samuel Forest
Laudatio 21 December 2012 Pages: 109 - 110
Gianpietro Del Piero: a continuator of the Italian tradition in continuum mechanics, as started by Gabrio Piola
Francesco dell’Isola
Laudatio 21 December 2012 Pages: 111 - 112
A tribute to my “Maestro” Gianpietro Del Piero
Raffaella Rizzoni
Laudatio 21 December 2012 Pages: 113 - 113
Gianpietro Del Piero

Biographical Sketch 27 November 2012 Pages: 115 - 125
The principle of virtual power: from eliminating metaphysical forces to providing an efficient modelling tool
Gérard A. Maugin
Review Article 30 September 2011 Pages: 127 - 146
From the onset of damage to rupture: construction of responses with damage localization for a general class of gradient damage models
Kim Pham
Jean-Jacques Marigo
Original Article 22 December 2011 Pages: 147 - 171
The effect of fluid streams in porous media on acoustic compression wave propagation, transmission, and reflection
A. Madeo
I. Djeran-Maigre
C. Silvani
Original Article 06 March 2012 Pages: 173 - 196
Inhomogeneous spherical configurations of inflated membranes
D. De Tommasi
G. Puglisi
G. Zurlo
Original Article 01 April 2012 Pages: 197 - 206
Shape recovery behaviour of NiTi strips in bending: experiments and modelling
Raffaella Rizzoni
Mattia Merlin
Daniele Casari
Original Article 28 April 2012 Pages: 207 - 227
Wave fronts in second-order elasticity determined by perturbation method applied to the eikonal equation
A. Marasco
A. Romano
Original Article 27 April 2012 Pages: 229 - 242
Fracture and debonding of a thin film on a stiff substrate: analytical and numerical solutions of a one-dimensional variational model
Andrés Alessandro León Baldelli
Blaise Bourdin
Corrado Maurini
Original Article 12 May 2012 Pages: 243 - 268
Comparison of three-dimensional and two-dimensional statistical mechanics of shear layers for flow between two parallel plates
L. Shirkov
V. Berdichevsky
Original Article Open access 23 May 2012 Pages: 269 - 272
Nonlinear sensing of ionic polymer metal composites
Matteo Aureli
Maurizio Porfiri
Original Article 26 May 2012 Pages: 273 - 310
Moving interfaces that separate loose and compact phases of elastic aggregates: a mechanism for drastic reduction or increase in macroscopic deformation
Luca Deseri
David R. Owen
Original Article 28 July 2012 Pages: 311 - 341
Micromechanical model for viscoelastic materials undergoing damage
Anil Misra
Viraj Singh
Original Article 29 July 2012 Pages: 343 - 358
Bottom-up modeling of damage in heterogeneous quasi-brittle solids
Antonio Rinaldi
Original Article 17 August 2012 Pages: 359 - 373
Soft-impact dynamics of deformable bodies
Ugo Andreaus
Bernardino Chiaia
Luca Placidi
Original Article 28 August 2012 Pages: 375 - 398
On a stress-power-based characterization of second-gradient elastic fluids
Paolo Podio-Guidugli
Maurizio Vianello
Original Article 02 September 2012 Pages: 399 - 421
Singular stress fields for masonry-like vaults
Maurizio Angelillo
Enrico Babilio
Antonio Fortunato
Original Article 22 October 2012 Pages: 423 - 441
Buckling of an elastic hemispherical shell with an obstacle
Alberto Maria Bersani
Ivan Giorgio
Giovanna Tomassetti
Original Article 21 October 2012 Pages: 443 - 467
Dynamic modeling of taut strings carrying a traveling mass
Manuel Ferretti
Giuseppe Piccardo
Original Article 17 November 2012 Pages: 469 - 488
On strain-rate sensitivity and size effect of brittle solids: transition from cooperative phenomena to microcrack nucleation
Sreten Mastilovic
Original Article 19 November 2012 Pages: 489 - 501
A damage constitutive model for sliding friction coupled to wear
Francesco D’Annibale
Angelo Luongo
Original Article 05 December 2012 Pages: 503 - 522
Moving heat source response in micropolar half-space with two-temperature theory
Soumen Shaw
Basudeb Mukhopadhyay
Original Article 15 December 2012 Pages: 523 - 535
A direct approach to fiber and membrane reinforced bodies. Part I. Stress concentrated on curves for modelling fiber reinforced materials
M. Lucchesi
M. Šilhavý
N. Zani
Original Article 04 January 2013 Pages: 537 - 558

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