Thin-Walled Structures

Thin-walled structures comprises an important and growing proportion of engineering construction with areas of application becoming increasingly diverse, ranging from aircraft, bridges, ships and oil rigs to storage vessels, industrial buildings and warehouses. Many factors, including cost and weight economy, new materials and processes and the growth of powerful methods of analysis have contributed to this growth, and led to the need for a journal which concentrates specifically on structures in which problems arise due to the thinness of the walls. This field includes cold– formed sections, plate and shell structures, reinforced plastics structures and aluminium structures, and is of importance in many branches of engineering. The primary criterion for consideration of papers in Thin–Walled Structures is that they must be concerned with thin–walled structures or the basic problems inherent in thin–walled structures. Provided this criterion is satisfied no restriction is placed on the type of construction, material or field of application. Papers on theory, experiment, design, etc., are published and it is expected that many papers will contain aspects of all three.

Thin-Walled Structures》期刊由Elsevier出版，JCR分区为Q1，是中科院工程技术1区Top期刊。该特刊由我院王宇航教授、徐菲教授和University of Lisbon的Prof. Yordan Garbatov及Johns Hopkins University的Prof. Benjamin Schafer共同担任客座编辑。可再生能源是来自可再生自然资源的清洁能源，例如风能、太阳能、水能、潮汐能和地热能，它已成为应对气候危机和实现碳中和的关键。为了更有效的收集、利用、部署和储存可再生能源，需要新型的钢与组合新能源结构，包括风电结构、太阳能电板支架结构、浮式结构、水电结构和地热能取能结构。由于这些新能源结构通常位于高山、沙漠、深海和极寒地区，因此面临着特殊的设计要求、复杂的载荷条件和恶劣的环境因素。本专题聚焦于钢与组合新能源结构的最新研究及应用进展。