Special issue on new trends in mechanical design and product development

This special issue is devoted to a special selection of the best papers presented at the Mechanics and Materials in Design International Conference (M2D 2019) held in Bologna (Italy) in 2019. The M2D 2019 was the eighth international meeting of the M2D series, gathering hundreds of scientists and engineers interested in the fields of mechanics, engineering design, advanced materials, energy harvesting, reliability, quality, and safety engineering. It was held between 4th and 6th of September 2019. Almost 160 contributions in the fields of Mechanics, Materials and Design at varied length scales, as well as Biomechanics and Experimental and Computational Mechanics applied to Mechanical, Aeronautical, Automotive, Biomedical, Environmental, and Nuclear Engineering were submitted to the Scientific board. The best 100 of those papers were selected for an oral presentation with the goal to enable engineers, researchers and scientists to exchange ideas on the following and other derivative topics.