50+ Years of Aimeta: A Journey Through Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in Italy

A Proper Perspective to Retrace the Evolution of Italian Mechanics, with a Focus on Solids and Structures.- Recognized Italian Scholars of Mechanics.- Mathematics and Engineering: A Fruitful Interaction.- Memoirs of a Few Senior AIMETA Officers.- Tribology within AIMETA.- New Challenges for Meccanica After 55 Years.- Italian Mechanics: Overviews, Viewpoints, Perspectives.- Kinematics of Machines: Contributions from Meccanica.- The AIMETA Contribution to the Development of Masonry Mechanics.- Dynamics and Stability: From an Ancillary to a Leading Role in the History of AIMETA.- Strain-difference Based Nonlocal Elasticity Theories: Formulations and Obtained Results.- On the Theory of Inhomogeneities in Continuum Mechanics 1950s - 1970s: Elastic Invariants and an Overlooked Paper by C. Eckart.- Configurational Forces on Elastic Structures.- Materials with Memory: Viscoelasticity and Hysteresis.- Fractional Calculus in Visco-elasticity.- Contributions and Challenges on the Computational Modelling of Damage and Fracture.