American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Published Special Issues

Sustainable Building Systems, Building Materials, Modeling and Simulation, Sensor Networks, Lighting and Building Illumination, HVAC and the physical performance of buildings

Guest Editors: Dr. Taher Abu-Lebdeh, Dr. Sameer Hamoush, Dr. Ahmed Megri, Dr. Ellie Fini, Dr. Nabil Nassif and Dr. Messiha Saad

Nanotechnologies and Biomedical Systems

Guest Editors: Christos Dimitrakopoulos, Florian Ion Tiberiu Petrescu, Wanlin Guo, Nan Yao, Shufeng Zhou, Jin Hyeok Kim, Ji-Huan He, Hongseok Choi and Haisheng Qian

Structural Engineering

Guest Editors: Konstantinos Daniel Tsavdaridis, Charis Gantes, Patrick Teuffel and Qing Quan Liang

Nanotechnologies and Biomedical Systems

Guest Editors: Florian Ion Tiberiu Petrescu, Shuhui Li, Jun-Wei Zha, MirMilad Mirsayar, Haisheng Qian, Guanying Chen, Chandra Sekhar Rout, Mingjun Chen, Antonio Apicella and Nikos D. Lagaros

Material Science

Guest Editors: Taher Abu-Lebdeh, Sameer Hamoush, Elham Fini, Meng Gu, Francisco Marquez, Umapada Pal and Niranjan Karak

Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Automotive Engineering

Guest Editors: Florian Ion Tiberiu Petrescu, Giuseppe Carbone, Shuhui Li, John Kaiser Calautit, MirMilad Mirsayarm, Junqiu Wang, Chiara Bedon, Ronald B. Bucinell and Juan M. Corchado

Renewable Energy, Environmental Engineering, Architectural and Civil Engineering, Sustainable Energy

Guest Editors: John Kaiser Calautit, Laura Vanoli, Alfonso Capozzoli, Francesco Calise, Muftah H. El-Naas, Rafal Damian Figaj, Fabrizio Ascione, Anna Laura Pisello, Annamaria Buonomano and Maria Vicidomini

FRP Structures

Guest Editors: Fabio Minghini, Francesco Ascione, Chiara Bedon and John Kaiser Calautit

ICTP - Innovative Characterization Techniques for Photovoltaics

Guest Editors: Mauro Pravettoni, Gianluca Corbellini, Alessandro Virtuani, Matteo Marzoli and Matthew Norton

Biomedical Systems

Guest Editors: Antonio Apicella, Raffaella Aversa, Ronald B. Bucinell, Florian Ion Tiberiu Petrescu, Nikolai Rulkov, MirMilad Mirsayar, Muftah H. El-Naas, Mehmet Sarikaya, Shufeng Zhou, and Joao Manuel R.S. Tavares

Materials science and nanotechnologies

Guest Editors: Taher M. Abu-Lebdeh, Francisco M Marquez, Aleksandar An?elkovi?, Manmohan Dass Goel and Lucia Figuli

Structural Engineering

Guest Editors: Taher M. Abu-Lebdeh, Francisco M Marquez, Antonio Apicella, Ertugrul Durak, Selim Sivrioglu, Florian Ion Tiberiu Petrescu, Nirosh Dilruk Jayaweera and Miguel Angelo Rodrigues Silvestre

Aerospace Engineering

Guest Editors: Nicolas P. Avdelidis, Lorenzo Fedele, Gianfranco Morani, Domenico Tescione, Antonio Concilio, Florian Ion Tiberiu Petrescu, Nirosh Dilruk Jayaweera, Sunl Chintalapati and Miguel Ângelo Rodrigues Silvestre

Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Automotive Engineering

Guest Editors: Florian Ion Tiberiu Petrescu, Myounggyu Won, Salah A. Makhlouf, Behzad Behnia, Changyong Cao, Junqiu Wang, Muhammad Shuja Khan, Raya Horesh and Siby Samuel

Applied Mechanics, Industrial and Civil Engineering

Guest Editors: Mounir Naili, Taher M. Abu-Lebdeh, Mehmet Kanik, Haider Khaleel Raad, Kaveh Ostad-Ali-Askari, Meikang Han, Muhammad Shuja Khan, Benouar Djillali, Abdelkrim Bourzam,Hassane Ousalem, Ali Nour, Abdelghani Meslem

Structural Engineering

Editors: Taher M. Abu-Lebdeh, Francisco M. Marquez, Antonio Apicella, Gianfranco Morani, Guanying Chen, Florian Ion Tiberiu Petrescu, Haixiao Liu, Shuhui Li and Chiara Bedon

Aerospace Engineering

Guest Editors: Shuhui Li, Francisco M. Marquez, Antonio Apicella, Lorenzo Fedele, Chun-Yi Su, Florian Ion Tiberiu Petrescu, Aaron Kombai Knoll and Antonio Concilio

Structural Engineering

Guest Editors: Taher M. Abu-Lebdeh, Francisco M. Marquez, Antonio Apicella, Gianfranco Morani, Guanying Chen, Florian Ion Tiberiu Petrescu, Haixiao Liu, Shuhui Li and Chiara Bedon

Industrial Robots

Guest Editors: Chun-Yi Su, Changyong Cao, Fernando J. Castillo García, Jose Machado, Juan M. Corchado, Florian Ion Tiberiu Petrescu, Yangmin Li and Erika Ottaviano

Advancements in Photocatalysis Research

Guest Editor: Yuvraj Mohan Hunge and Francisco M. Marquez

Materials, Mechanical and Manufacturing

Guest Editors: Taher M. Abu-Lebdeh, Francisco M Marquez, Antonio Apicella, Lei-Yong Jiang, Georgios S. Papavasileiou and Florian Ion Tiberiu Petrescu

Hydraulics, Hydrodynamics and Flow Measurements Engineering

Guest Editors: Ahmed Y. Mohammed, Abdessattar Abdelkefi, Aguk Zuhdi Muhammad Fathallah, Antonio Ficarella, Belkacem Zeghmati and Hannu Marttila