Contemporary structural biology has an increased emphasis on high-throughput methods. Biomolecular simulations can add value to structural biology via the provision of dynamic information. However, at present there are no agreed measures for the quality of biomolecular simulation data. In this Letter, we suggest suitable measures for the quality assurance of molecular dynamics simulations of bi...

If academics and intellectuals are to play a meaningful part in addressing the urgent issues that humanity faces in the twenty-first century—those of war and peace, social justice, democracy, cultural diversity, and ecological sustainability—it is incumbent upon us to gain an analytical understanding of globalization as the underlying structural dynamic that drives social, political, economic, ...

The aim of this article is to present a methodological approach for problems encountered in structural analysis. This approach is based upon the pretopological concepts of pseudoclosure and minimal closed subsets. The advantage of this approach is that it provides a framework which is general enough to model and formulate different types of connections that exist between the elements of a popul...

This paper is concerned with the results from the COST Action F3 Working Group Two benchmarking exercise in Structural Health Monitoring. Data from two large-scale structures were modelled for the purposes of damage detection, location and quantification. Several analysis papers have been submitted for a special issue of Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing and the conclusions of each are s...

The following individuals acted as outstanding and exceptional referees for papers submitted to and/or published in Structural Dynamics during 2014. The Editor-in-Chief and the Associate Editors wish to express their deep appreciation to the referees for their conscientious efforts on behalf of the journal.

This paper presents a computational framework for the integrated simulation of complex multi-physics problems. It results from interfacing existing structural dynamics, multidisciplinary software and different computational fluid dynamics codes by means of a newly developed, broadly general communication scheme that accounts both for solution synchronization and field interpolation. A first app...

efficiency of enzymes which are used in industrial or environmental applications is highly dependent on their thermal stability. in this study, the stability of dfpase has been evaluated after introducing disulfide bonds to the structure. the results obtained from a series of protein design software were subjected to molecular dynamics simulation at different temperature to test the performance...