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The broad use of composite materials and shell structural members with complex geometries in technologies related to various branches of engineering has gained increased attention from scientists and engineers for the development of even more refined approaches and investigation of their mechanical behavior. It is well known that composite materials are able to provide higher values of strength stiffness, and thermal properties, together with conferring reduced weight, which can affect the mechanical behavior of beams, plates, and shells, in terms of static response, vibrations, and buckling loads. At the same time, enhanced structures made of composite materials can feature internal length scales and non-local behaviors, with great sensitivity to different staking sequences, ply orientations, agglomeration of nanoparticles, volume fractions of constituents, and porosity levels, among others. In addition to fiber-reinforced composites and laminates, increased attention has been paid in literature to the study of innovative components such as functionally graded materials (FGMs), carbon nanotubes (CNTs), graphene nanoplatelets, and smart constituents. Some examples of smart applications involve large stroke smart actuators, piezoelectric sensors, shape memory alloys, magnetostrictive and electrostrictive materials, as well as auxetic components and angle-tow laminates. These constituents can be included in the lamination schemes of smart structures to control and monitor the vibrational behavior or the static deflection of several composites. The development of advanced theoretical and computational models for composite materials and structures is a subject of active research and this is explored here for different complex systems, including their static, dynamic, and buckling responses; fracture mechanics at different scales; the adhesion, cohesion, and delamination of materials and interfaces.

Technology: general issues --- dynamic stability --- elastomeric foundation --- Eringen's differential constitutive model --- graphene sheet --- temperature-dependent properties --- basement bottom reinforcement --- reinforcement depth --- Young's modulus of reinforced soil --- tunnel heave --- numerical analysis --- epistemic uncertainty --- evidence theory --- robust optimization --- sensor design --- near-field earthquake --- fling-step --- far-field --- simultaneous excitation --- special moment frame (SMF) --- advanced model --- precise prediction --- circular foundation pit --- tunnel deformation --- composite --- stochastic --- natural frequency --- uncertainty --- metro constructions --- shield tunnel --- ground settlement --- soil displacement --- analytical --- Mindlin solution --- EELS --- plasmons vibrational modes --- nanoparticles --- nonlocal and size-dependent dielectric --- nanoparticle suspension --- Brownian motion --- spectral thermal pulsing --- DEM simulations --- Nano-device applications --- stratum movements --- mirror source-sink method --- centrifuge modelling test --- transport --- palletized goods --- damage --- bottle --- buckling --- Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) --- dynamic stability --- elastomeric foundation --- Eringen's differential constitutive model --- graphene sheet --- temperature-dependent properties --- basement bottom reinforcement --- reinforcement depth --- Young's modulus of reinforced soil --- tunnel heave --- numerical analysis --- epistemic uncertainty --- evidence theory --- robust optimization --- sensor design --- near-field earthquake --- fling-step --- far-field --- simultaneous excitation --- special moment frame (SMF) --- advanced model --- precise prediction --- circular foundation pit --- tunnel deformation --- composite --- stochastic --- natural frequency --- uncertainty --- metro constructions --- shield tunnel --- ground settlement --- soil displacement --- analytical --- Mindlin solution --- EELS --- plasmons vibrational modes --- nanoparticles --- nonlocal and size-dependent dielectric --- nanoparticle suspension --- Brownian motion --- spectral thermal pulsing --- DEM simulations --- Nano-device applications --- stratum movements --- mirror source-sink method --- centrifuge modelling test --- transport --- palletized goods --- damage --- bottle --- buckling --- Polyethylene terephthalate (PET)

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The broad use of composite materials and shell structural members with complex geometries in technologies related to various branches of engineering has gained increased attention from scientists and engineers for the development of even more refined approaches and investigation of their mechanical behavior. It is well known that composite materials are able to provide higher values of strength stiffness, and thermal properties, together with conferring reduced weight, which can affect the mechanical behavior of beams, plates, and shells, in terms of static response, vibrations, and buckling loads. At the same time, enhanced structures made of composite materials can feature internal length scales and non-local behaviors, with great sensitivity to different staking sequences, ply orientations, agglomeration of nanoparticles, volume fractions of constituents, and porosity levels, among others. In addition to fiber-reinforced composites and laminates, increased attention has been paid in literature to the study of innovative components such as functionally graded materials (FGMs), carbon nanotubes (CNTs), graphene nanoplatelets, and smart constituents. Some examples of smart applications involve large stroke smart actuators, piezoelectric sensors, shape memory alloys, magnetostrictive and electrostrictive materials, as well as auxetic components and angle-tow laminates. These constituents can be included in the lamination schemes of smart structures to control and monitor the vibrational behavior or the static deflection of several composites. The development of advanced theoretical and computational models for composite materials and structures is a subject of active research and this is explored here for different complex systems, including their static, dynamic, and buckling responses; fracture mechanics at different scales; the adhesion, cohesion, and delamination of materials and interfaces.

dynamic stability --- elastomeric foundation --- Eringen’s differential constitutive model --- graphene sheet --- temperature-dependent properties --- basement bottom reinforcement --- reinforcement depth --- Young’s modulus of reinforced soil --- tunnel heave --- numerical analysis --- epistemic uncertainty --- evidence theory --- robust optimization --- sensor design --- near-field earthquake --- fling-step --- far-field --- simultaneous excitation --- special moment frame (SMF) --- advanced model --- precise prediction --- circular foundation pit --- tunnel deformation --- composite --- stochastic --- natural frequency --- uncertainty --- metro constructions --- shield tunnel --- ground settlement --- soil displacement --- analytical --- Mindlin solution --- EELS --- plasmons vibrational modes --- nanoparticles --- nonlocal and size-dependent dielectric --- nanoparticle suspension --- Brownian motion --- spectral thermal pulsing --- DEM simulations --- Nano-device applications --- stratum movements --- mirror source–sink method --- centrifuge modelling test --- transport --- palletized goods --- damage --- bottle --- buckling --- Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) --- n/a --- Eringen's differential constitutive model --- Young's modulus of reinforced soil --- mirror source-sink method

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Coastal areas are remarkable regions with high spatiotemporal variability. A large population is affected by their physical and biological processes—resulting from effects on tourism to biodiversity and productivity. Coastal ecosystems perform several critical ecosystem services and functions, such as water oxygenation and nutrients provision, seafloor and beach stabilization (as sediment is controlled and trapped within the rhizomes of the seagrass meadows), carbon burial, as areas for nursery, and as refuge for several commercial and endemic species. Knowledge of the spatial distribution of marine habitats is prerequisite information for the conservation and sustainable use of marine resources. Remote sensing from UAVs to spaceborne sensors is offering a unique opportunity to measure, analyze, quantify, map, and explore the processes on the coastal areas at high temporal frequencies. This Special Issue on “Application of Remote Sensing in Coastal Areas” is specifically addresses those successful applications—from local to regional scale—in coastal environments related to ecosystem productivity, biodiversity, sea level rise.

satellite remote sensing --- Landsat --- coastline --- barrier island --- morphological change --- coastal ocean --- Photon-counting lidar --- MABEL --- land cover --- remote sensing --- signal photons --- ground settlement --- marine reclamation land --- time series InSAR --- Sentinel-1 --- Xiamen New Airport --- Pleiades --- photogrammetry --- LiDAR --- RTK-GPS --- beach topography --- cliff coastlines --- time-series analysis --- terrestrial laser scanner --- southern Baltic Sea --- non-parametric Bayesian network --- satellite-derived bathymetry --- hydrography --- CubeSats --- hypertemporal --- zones of confidence --- PlanetScope --- vegetation mapping --- dunes --- unmanned aerial system --- pixel-based classification --- object-based classification --- dune vegetation classification --- coastal monitoring --- multispectral satellite images --- multi-temporal NDVI --- pixels based supervised classification --- Random Forest --- harmonization --- shoreline mapping --- semi-global subpixel localization --- intensity integral error --- polarimetric SAR --- polarimetric decomposition --- ship detection --- Euclidean distance --- mutual information --- new feature --- Bohai sea ice --- sea ice extent --- OLCI imagery --- sea ice information index --- waterline extraction --- sub-pixel --- surface water mapping --- data cube --- contour extraction --- water extraction --- water indices --- thresholding --- Coastal process --- wind wake --- heat advection --- multi-sensor --- ASAR --- oceanic thermal response --- Hainan Island --- coastal remote sensing --- habitat mapping --- unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) --- unmanned aircraft system (UAS) --- drone --- object-based image analysis (OBIA) --- UAS data acquisition --- n/a