Recent Advances in Solid Mechanics

Abstract

The engineers are working on creation of infrastructures, development of new machines, and interdisciplinary areas of automotive, civil, naval and especially aerospace engineering. The global research community is working towards new materials including composites, Nano composites to Functional graded materials, its characterization and utilization of new materials and product development for specific applications. The advances in digital computers with their enormous computing speed, core memory capacity has changed the outlook of the structural analysis and design philosophy. This also caused the evolution and advancement of various numerical methods such as Finite element method (FEM), meshless methods for solution of static, dynamic and stability analysis of one dimensional beams and frames to multi-dimensional plates and shells. The advances in experimental mechanics give an insight to the actual behavior of structure