New trends in Dynamics and Stability Preface
This Special Issue, entitled New trends in Dynamics and Stability aims to provide an up-to-date overview on recent research results obtained within GADeS: the AIMETA Group of Dynamics and Stability. This group, which is part of AIMETA, the Italian Association of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, was founded in 2012 aiming to stimulate the development of interdisciplinary research activities involving scientists with different cultural backgrounds. Applications originated from civil and mechanical engineering, that is, concerned about solid dynamics, structural dynamics, machine dynamics, dynamical system theory, stability, bifurcation and control theory: the specific themes of interest of GADeS are comprised in this Special Issue. The authors who were invited to contribute to the project investigate the mentioned subjects using different viewpoints, such as applied mathematics as well as techniques in different branches of research in civil and mechanical engineering.