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Curved and Layered Structures

ISSN: 2353-7396

Editor-in-chief: Francesco Tornabene

Managing Editor: Katarzyna Gajewska

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Call for papers for the Special Issue:

Sustainable Smart Structures and Infrastructures
Submission deadline: 31st of December 2022

The 2nd Thematic Symposium – Integrity of Mechanical Structure and Material
Submission Deadline: 30th of November 2022

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For readers the journal will position itself as the central and most authoritative publication in structural mechanics, engineering structures, architectural design, wind engineering, aerospace engineering, naval engineering, structural stability, structural dynamics, structural stability/reliability, experimental modeling and smart structures.
The content of the journal is especially dedicated to scientists carrying out research and/or interested in structural mechanics, engineering structures, architectural design, wind engineering, aerospace engineering, naval engineering, structural stability, structural dynamics, structural stability/reliability, experimental modeling and smart structures.

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The goal of the journal is to be the first and the main publishing option for authors writing on engineering and architectural science, and a hub integrating the relevant research community. The journal serves research papers from a broad range of topics both theoretical and applied ones.

Authors of Curved and Layered Structures enjoy the following benefits:

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The publication fee (APC – Article Processing Charges) amounts to €500.

Past events:
4th International Conference on Mechanics of Composites, Madrid, 9 - 12 July 2018
21st International Conference on Composite Structures (ICCS20), Bologna, Italy, 4 - 7 September 2018
1st Italian Workshop on Shell and Spatial Structures

The aim of Curved and Layered Structures is to become a premier source of knowledge and a worldwide-recognized platform of research and knowledge exchange for scientists of different disciplinary origins and backgrounds (e.g., civil, mechanical, marine, aerospace engineers and architects). The journal publishes research papers from a broad range of topics and approaches including structural mechanics, computational mechanics, engineering structures, architectural design, wind engineering, aerospace engineering, naval engineering, structural stability, structural dynamics, structural stability/reliability, experimental modeling and smart structures. Therefore, the Journal accepts both theoretical and applied contributions in all subfields of structural mechanics as long as they contribute in a broad sense to the core theme.

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Volume 9 Issue 1

January 2022

The work is devoted to determining the stress parameters of flexible reinforced concrete beams with cracks. The problem is solved using LIRA-SAPR using beam finite elements, taking into account the nonlinear relationship between deformation and stress in concrete. In the course of solution, a step-by-step loading method is used with the use of an iterative process at each step. To obtain the dependence of the stress parameters on varied factors, a rational planning matrix for a multifactor computer simulation was compiled to determine the stress parameters in bent rectangular reinforced concrete beams with a crack. According to this plan, computer simulations were conducted for concrete beams of C20/25 and B32/40 class. The obtained dependences enable to evaluate the operability of the considered structural elements for both groups of limiting states. They can be used to determine the parameters of fracture mechanics and evaluate the crack resistance of a beam.

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SCImago Journal Rank	0.410
Source Normalized Impact per Paper	0.973

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An article accepted for publication in Curved and Layered Structures is subject to an Article Processing Charge (APC) in amount of 500 EUR. We maintain a very flexible discount and waiver policy and authors with limited or no access to funding are strongly encouraged to apply for a discount. Please feel free to contact us before or immediately after submission at cls.editorial@degruyter.com to discuss available options.

There are no submission charges – Article Processing Charges apply after the acceptance of a manuscript.

For information on the funding policy please visit http://degruyteropen.com/you/author/fundingforauthors/.

Manuscripts should be submitted to the journal via e-mail by Online Submission of Manuscripts

Manuscript submitted to this journal should:

contain original work - not published elsewhere in any medium (in the whole or in part) by the authors or anyone else and not under consideration for publication in any other medium;
focus on the aims and scope of the journal;
be clearly and correctly written - should contain all essential features of a scientific publication that is easy to understand for the target audience;
written in English - attention to detail of the language will avoid severe misunderstandings which might lead to rejection of the paper;
be delivered in electronic format.

The journal accepts the following publication formats:

Research Articles
Communications and Rapid Communications
Reviews and Mini-Reviews
Vision Papers
Letters to the Editor and Amendments

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It is important that authors include a cover letter with their manuscript. Please explain why you consider your manuscript as suitable for publication in the journal, why will your paper inspire the other members of your field, and how will it drive research forward.

The letter should contain all important details such as:

your full name (submitted by)
full title of article and short title
full list of authors with affiliations
e-mail of the corresponding author
contact address, telephone/fax numbers of the corresponding author
number of attached files, if there is more than one
status: new, reviewed or accepted (with reference ID if reviewed or accepted)

Cover letter should explicitly state that the manuscript (or one with substantially the same content, by any of the authors) has not been previously published in any language anywhere and that it is not under simultaneous consideration or in press by another journal. If related work has been submitted, then we may require a preprint to be made available. Reviewers will be asked to comment on the overlap between the related submissions.

Manuscripts that have been previously rejected, or withdrawn after being returned for modification, may be resubmitted if the major criticisms have been addressed. The cover letter must state that the manuscript is a resubmission, and the former manuscript number should be provided.

Conflict of interest declaration
To ensure fair and objective decision-making, authors must declare any associations that pose a conflict of interest in connection with evaluated manuscripts (see Editorial Policy for details). Authors are encouraged to fill in the ICMJE Conflicts of Interest Form (available here) and send it in the electronic format to the Journal Editor.

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We accept submission of text, tables and figures as separate files or as a composite file. For your initial submission, we recommend you upload your entire manuscript, including tables and figures, as a single PDF file. If you are invited to submit a revised manuscript, please provide us with individual files: an editable text and publication-quality figures.

Text files can be submitted in the following formats: MS Word - standard DOCUMENT (.DOC) or RICH TEXT FORMAT (.RTF); PDF (not applicable for re-submitted or accepted manuscripts, see below)
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SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS
Manuscripts have to be written in LATEX, AMS-TEX, AMS-LATEX. We do not accept papers in Plain TEX format. If additionally a PDF file is supplied, the peer review process will speed up. Authors are encouraged to submit the final version of the paper using the De Gruyter Open LATEX template. For detailed information, please see Instruction for Authors.

EDITORIAL POLICY
The journal uses a single-blind peer review system.
Unpublished material: Submission of a manuscript implies that the work described is not copyrighted, published or submitted elsewhere, except in abstract form. The corresponding author should ensure that all authors approve the manuscript before its submission.
Ethical conduct of research: The authors must describe and confirm safeguards to meet ethical standards when applicable. See Editorial Policy for details.
Conflict of interest: When authors submit a manuscript, they are responsible for recognizing and disclosing financial and/or other conflicts of interest that might bias their work and/or could inappropriately influence his/her judgment. If no specified acknowledgement is given, the Editors assume that no conflict of interest exists. Authors are encouraged to fill in the ICMJE Conflicts of Interest Form (available here) and send it in the electronic format to the Managing Editor.
Copyright: All authors retain copyright, unless - due to their local circumstances - their work is not copyrighted. The non-commercial use of each article will be governed by the Creative Commons Attribution Only license (CC-BY) which is compliant with Plan-S. The corresponding author grants the journal license for use of the article, by signing the License to Publish. Open Access License is available on the webpage. We encourage the authors to send the signed license along with the manuscript. Please note, that no article will be published unless the Open Access License is signed.
Authorship: Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be named in an Acknowledgement section. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors (according to the above definition) and no inappropriate co-authors are included in the author list of the manuscript, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.
Peer Review process: Our standard policy requires each paper to be reviewed by at least two Referees and the peer-review process is single-blind. The Editors reserve the right to decline the submitted manuscript without review, if the studies reported are not sufficiently novel or important to merit publication in the journal. Manuscripts deemed unsuitable (insufficient originality or of limited interest to the target audience) are returned to the author(s) without review. The Editor seeks advice from experts in the appropriate field. Research articles and communications are refereed by a minimum of two reviewers, review papers by at least three. Authors are requested to suggest persons competent to review their manuscript. However, please note that this will be treated only as a suggestion, and the final selection of reviewers is exclusively the Editor's decision. The final decision of acceptance is made by the Managing Editor or, in case of conflict, by the Editor-in-Chief.
Scientific Misconduct: This journal publishes only original manuscripts that are not also published or going to be published elsewhere. Multiple submissions/publications, or redundant publications (re-packaging in different words of data already published by the same authors) will be rejected. If they are detected only after publication, the journal reserves the right to publish a Retraction Note. In each particular case, Editors will follow COPE's Code of Conduct and implement its advice.

Editorial

Editor-in-Chief
Francesco Tornabene, University of Salento, Italy

Associate Editors
Salvatore Brischetto, Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy
Snehashish Chakraverty, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India
Rossana Dimitri, University of Salento, Italy
Lorenzo Dozio, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy
Elena Ferretti, University of Bologna, Italy
Aurora Angela Pisano, Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, Italy
Alfred G. Striz, Oklahoma University, USA

Editorial Advisory Board
Raffaele Barretta, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Francesco Marotti de Sciarra, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Serge Abrate, Southern Illinois University, USA
Sarp Adali, University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
Maria Antonietta Aiello, University of Salento, Italy (antonietta.aiello@unisalento.it)
Luigi Ascione, University of Salerno, Italy
J. Ranjan Banerjee, City University London, UK
Romesh C. Batra, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
Zdenek P. Bazant, Northwestern University, USA
Alberto Carpinteri, Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy
Snehashish Chakraverty, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India
Jeng-Tzong Chen, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan
Zhengtao Chen, University of Alberta, Canada
Ömer Civalek, Akdeniz University, Turkey
Moshe Eisenberger, Technion, Israel
Luciano Feo, University of Salerno, Italy
Fernando Fraternali, University of Salerno, Italy
Seyed M. Hashemi, Ryerson University, Canada
Alexander L. Kalamkarov, Dalhousie University, Canada
Gennady M. Kulikov, Tambov State Technical University, Russia
Giuseppe Lacidogna, Politecnico di Torino, Italy (giuseppe.lacidogna@polito.it)
Kim Meow Liew, City University of Hong Kong, China
Parviz Malekzadeh, Persian Gulf University, Iran
Federico M. Mazzolani, University of Naples "Federico II", Italy
Claudio Mazzotti, University of Bologna, Italy
Francesco Micelli, University of Salento, Italy (francesco.micelli@unisalento.it)
Evgeny V. Morozov, The University of New South Wales, Australia
Roberto Nascimbene, European Centre for Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering, Italy
Eugenio Oñate, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
Wiesław M. Ostachowicz, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Wojciech Pietraszkiewicz, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Olivier Polit, Université Paris Ouest, France
Mohamad S. Qatu, Eastern Michigan University, USA
Alessandro Reali, University of Pavia, Italy
Junuthula N. Reddy, Texas A&M University, USA
Elio Sacco, University of Cassino, Italy
Mohammad Shariyat, Khaje Nasir Toosi University of Technology, Iran
Hui-Shen Shen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Abdullah H. Sofiyev, Suleyman Demirel University, Turkey
Angelo Di Tommaso, University of Bologna, Italy
Francesco Ubertini, University of Bologna, Italy
Erasmo Viola, University of Bologna, Italy
Antony M. Waas, University of Michigan, USA
Ashraf M. Zenkour, Kafrelsheikh University, Egypt

Language Editor
Almut Pohl, EnginEdit, Specialist Translations for Civil Engineering, Switzerland

Assistant Editors
Ada Amendola, University of Salerno, Italy
Ana M. A. Neves, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Rosa Penna, University of Salerno, Italy
Stefano Valvano, Kore University of Enna, Italy

Publisher
DE GRUYTER Poland
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01-811 Warsaw, Poland
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Editorial Office
Katarzyna Gajewska, M.Sc. Eng.
Managing Editor
Email: Katarzyna.Gajewska@degruyter.com
https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/cls

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Type: Journal
Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Open Access
First published: December 10, 2014
Publication Frequency: 1 Issue per Year
Audience: Researchers in the fields of: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Processing