
Volume 25, issue 2-4, 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
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- Francesco dell'Isola
- Samuel Forest
25 articles in this issue
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Gianpietro Del Piero: a continuator of the Italian tradition in continuum mechanics, as started by Gabrio Piola
Authors
- Francesco dell’Isola
- Content type: Laudatio
- Published: 21 December 2012
- Pages: 111 - 112
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A tribute to my “Maestro” Gianpietro Del Piero
Authors
- Raffaella Rizzoni
- Content type: Laudatio
- Published: 21 December 2012
- Pages: 113 - 113
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Gianpietro Del Piero
- Content type: Biographical Sketch
- Published: 27 November 2012
- Pages: 115 - 125
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The principle of virtual power: from eliminating metaphysical forces to providing an efficient modelling tool
Authors
- Gérard A. Maugin
- Content type: Review Article
- Published: 30 September 2011
- Pages: 127 - 146
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From the onset of damage to rupture: construction of responses with damage localization for a general class of gradient damage models
Authors
- Kim Pham
- Jean-Jacques Marigo
- Content type: Original Article
- Published: 22 December 2011
- Pages: 147 - 171
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The effect of fluid streams in porous media on acoustic compression wave propagation, transmission, and reflection
Authors (first, second and last of 4)
- A. Madeo
- I. Djeran-Maigre
- C. Silvani
- Content type: Original Article
- Published: 06 March 2012
- Pages: 173 - 196
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Inhomogeneous spherical configurations of inflated membranes
Authors
- D. De Tommasi
- G. Puglisi
- G. Zurlo
- Content type: Original Article
- Published: 01 April 2012
- Pages: 197 - 206
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Shape recovery behaviour of NiTi strips in bending: experiments and modelling
Authors
- Raffaella Rizzoni
- Mattia Merlin
- Daniele Casari
- Content type: Original Article
- Published: 28 April 2012
- Pages: 207 - 227
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Wave fronts in second-order elasticity determined by perturbation method applied to the eikonal equation
Authors
- A. Marasco
- A. Romano
- Content type: Original Article
- Published: 27 April 2012
- Pages: 229 - 242
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Fracture and debonding of a thin film on a stiff substrate: analytical and numerical solutions of a one-dimensional variational model
Authors (first, second and last of 4)
- Andrés Alessandro León Baldelli
- Blaise Bourdin
- Corrado Maurini
- Content type: Original Article
- Published: 12 May 2012
- Pages: 243 - 268
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Comparison of three-dimensional and two-dimensional statistical mechanics of shear layers for flow between two parallel plates
Authors
- L. Shirkov
- V. Berdichevsky
- Content type: Original Article
- Open Access
- Published: 23 May 2012
- Pages: 269 - 272
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Nonlinear sensing of ionic polymer metal composites
Authors
- Matteo Aureli
- Maurizio Porfiri
- Content type: Original Article
- Published: 26 May 2012
- Pages: 273 - 310
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Moving interfaces that separate loose and compact phases of elastic aggregates: a mechanism for drastic reduction or increase in macroscopic deformation
Authors
- Luca Deseri
- David R. Owen
- Content type: Original Article
- Published: 28 July 2012
- Pages: 311 - 341
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Micromechanical model for viscoelastic materials undergoing damage
Authors
- Anil Misra
- Viraj Singh
- Content type: Original Article
- Published: 29 July 2012
- Pages: 343 - 358
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Bottom-up modeling of damage in heterogeneous quasi-brittle solids
Authors
- Antonio Rinaldi
- Content type: Original Article
- Published: 17 August 2012
- Pages: 359 - 373
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Soft-impact dynamics of deformable bodies
Authors
- Ugo Andreaus
- Bernardino Chiaia
- Luca Placidi
- Content type: Original Article
- Published: 28 August 2012
- Pages: 375 - 398
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On a stress-power-based characterization of second-gradient elastic fluids
Authors
- Paolo Podio-Guidugli
- Maurizio Vianello
- Content type: Original Article
- Published: 02 September 2012
- Pages: 399 - 421
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Singular stress fields for masonry-like vaults
Authors
- Maurizio Angelillo
- Enrico Babilio
- Antonio Fortunato
- Content type: Original Article
- Published: 22 October 2012
- Pages: 423 - 441
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Buckling of an elastic hemispherical shell with an obstacle
Authors
- Alberto Maria Bersani
- Ivan Giorgio
- Giovanna Tomassetti
- Content type: Original Article
- Published: 21 October 2012
- Pages: 443 - 467
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Dynamic modeling of taut strings carrying a traveling mass
Authors
- Manuel Ferretti
- Giuseppe Piccardo
- Content type: Original Article
- Published: 17 November 2012
- Pages: 469 - 488
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On strain-rate sensitivity and size effect of brittle solids: transition from cooperative phenomena to microcrack nucleation
Authors
- Sreten Mastilovic
- Content type: Original Article
- Published: 19 November 2012
- Pages: 489 - 501
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A damage constitutive model for sliding friction coupled to wear
Authors
- Francesco D’Annibale
- Angelo Luongo
- Content type: Original Article
- Published: 05 December 2012
- Pages: 503 - 522
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Moving heat source response in micropolar half-space with two-temperature theory
Authors
- Soumen Shaw
- Basudeb Mukhopadhyay
- Content type: Original Article
- Published: 15 December 2012
- Pages: 523 - 535
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A direct approach to fiber and membrane reinforced bodies. Part I. Stress concentrated on curves for modelling fiber reinforced materials
Authors
- M. Lucchesi
- M. Šilhavý
- N. Zani
- Content type: Original Article
- Published: 04 January 2013
- Pages: 537 - 558