Associate professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics
DIMES - University of Calabria
This book is suitable for a six-month introductory course on solid mechanics. The course is composed by 5 chapters, video lessons, animations, MATLAB exercises.
A contiuosily updated collection of additional teaching contents as solved exercises, quizzes, solved problems and blogs.
Bilotta A., Turco A., Estimating the mass density distribution from ultrasonic dispersion curves. Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids (2026)
Nitti et alia, A fast isogeometric solver for electrophysiology based on weak spatial form with minimal patch-wise quadrature. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (2026)
Turco E., Bilotta A., Inverse scattering transform: an overview and the Toda's chain as paradigm for discrete systems. Continuum Mech. Thermodyn (2025)
Bilotta A., Turco E., Constitutive modeling of heterogeneous materials by interpretable neural networks: A review. Networks and Heterogeneous Media (2025)
Turco E., Bilotta A., Designing multistable metamaterials inspired by Kresling tubes. Mechanics Research Communications (2024)
Bilotta A., Morassi A., Turco E., Damage identification for steel-concrete composite beams through convolutional neural networks. Journal of Vibration and Control (2024)
Liguori F.S., Corrado A., Bilotta A., Madeo A., A layer-wise plasticity-based approach for the analysis of reinforced concrete shell structures using a mixed finite element. Engineering Structures (2023)
Bilotta A., Causin A., Solci E., Turco, Automatic description of rubble masonry geometries by machine learning based approach. INdAM Series. Springer (2023)