Progress in Structural Mechanics

1. Numerical and Experimental Analysis of Elastic Three-layer Plate Under Static and Low Velocity Impact Loading.- 2. Reviewing Yield Criteria in Plasticity Theory.- 3. Minimum Test Effort-Based Derivation of Constant-Fatigue-Life Curves - Displayed for the Brittle UD Composite Materials.- 4.  Experimental Evaluation and Phase-Field Model of Fracture Behavior of Alumina-Aluminium Graded Composite.- 5.  On the Potential of Machine Learning Assisted Tomography for Rapid Assessment of FRP Materials with Defects.- 6. On the Semi-Analytical Modelling of the Free-Edge Stress Field in Cross-Ply Laminated Shells Under Mechanical Loads.- 7.  Experimental Quantification of Barrier Effects for Microstructural Short Fatigue Crack Propagation in Martensitic Steel.- 8.  On the Difficulty to Implement the Coupled Criterion to Predict Failure in Tempered Glass.- 9.  Extended Reduced Bending Stiffness Method for Shear Deformable Laminated Plates.- 10.  How Mechanically Inspired Design Rules Help in the Topology Optimization of Structures with Highly Nonlinear Behavior.- 11. Phase Field Modeling of Cracks in Ice. 

Holm Altenbach is a member of the International Research Center on Mathematics and Mechanics of Complex Systems (M&MoCS), Italy, and International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM). In 1996, he was appointed as a full professor (Engineering Mechanics) at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, and since 2011, he has been a full professor at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg. He graduated from Leningrad Polytechnic Institute in 1980 (diploma with a distinction), defended his Ph.D. and obtained his postgraduate degree (habilitation) from the same university in 1983 and 1987, respectively. His areas of scientific interest are theory of plates and shells with applications, continuum mechanics and material modeling, generalized media, sandwiches and laminates. He is an Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics/Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik (the oldest journal in mechanics in Germany) and of Springer's Advanced Structured Materials series. He is a member of the editorial board of several journals: among them Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Technische Mechanik, Mechanics of Composite Materials, and Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design. He was awarded the Polish Humboldt Prize in 2018. In November 2019, he was elected as a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and in May 2021 as a Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Since October 1st, 2022, he is retired.




Jörg Hohe is head of the Composite Materials Group of Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of materials IWM at Freiburg, Germany. He graduated in from Darmstadt University of Technology with a Diploma degree in mechanics in 1992 and obtained a doctoral degree with a thesis in fracture mechanics in the same department in 1996. After a time in industry as an engineer in technical supervision and inspection, he joined Siegen University at Siegen,