To make an excellent correlation between test analysis, an inverse analysis to fit the parameters of the empirical friction model with reference to the test results was conducted using the response surface methods. Further, we thank the reviewers and the HT <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>A</mi><mi>p</mi><mi>p</mi><mi>l</mi><mi>i</mi><mi>e</mi><mi>d</mi></mrow></semantics></math> ht HT <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>S</mi><mi>c</mi><mi>i</mi><mi>e</mi><mi>n</mi><mi>c</mi><mi>e</mi><mi>s</mi></mrow></semantics></math> ht team for your support. Special Issues The call for papers in the Special Issue "Computational Modeling and Simulation of Solids and Structures: Recent Advances and Practical Applications" in HT <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>A</mi><mi>p</mi><mi>p</mi><mi>l</mi><mi>i</mi><mi>e</mi><mi>d</mi></mrow></semantics></math> ht HT <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>S</mi><mi>c</mi><mi>i</mi><mi>e</mi><mi>n</mi><mi>c</mi><mi>e</mi><mi>s</mi></mrow></semantics></math> ht was open from 1 March 2021, to 28 February 2022, and received 16 manuscripts, of which 9 were selected to be published, giving a 56% approval rate.