Special issue MEDYNA 2020

Mechanical systems such as vehicle suspensions, robot manipulators, and spacecraft are often required to operate with high performances and shock and vibrations, which may quickly cause unacceptable system states, are perceived as the most important problems in mechanical system design. The development of methods for vibro-acoustic characterization and control has become an important topic of research and several methods, with analytical, numerical and experimental approaches, have been proposed to identify the vibro-acoustic and impact characteristics of different types of structure belonging to different engineering fields. This Special Issue of Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science (JMES) contains selected, extended and peer-reviewed papers that were initially presented at the 3rd in the series Euro-Mediterranean Conference on Structural Dynamics and Vibroacoustics (MEDYNA 2020) in Napoli, Italy, from February 17th to February 19th, 2020 (https://medyna2020.sciencesconf.org/). The emphasis of the conference series is on methods, techniques and technologies – under theoretical, numerical and experimental approaches – in acoustics, vibration, impacts and structural health monitoring and the present Special Issue highlights the current state-of-the-art of this fields and innovative ideas applied in several engineering applications, such as: aeronautics, automotive, building, etcetera.