Mechanics and Design of Advanced Composite Structures
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Mechanics of Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 March 2025 | Viewed by 1824
Special Issue Editors
Interests: additive manufacturing; composites; modelling; design optimisation; metamaterials
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Interests: nano-mechanics; nano-tribology; nano-fiber composite materials; Piezo-electricity and Flexo-electricity of 2D materials;
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Advanced composites, e.g., continuous/short fibre or particle-reinforced composite structures, etc., are attracting increasing attention in industrial applications due to their excellent performance, i.e., high mechanical properties in terms of stiffness- and strength-to-weight ratios, when compared to their counterparts. In recent years, significant advances have been witnessed in the mechanics and design of composite structures with respect to novel design, fabrication, and characterisation methods. As such, this Special Issue has a particular focus on, but is not limited to, the mechanics and design of advanced composites, with respect to advanced design, fabrication, and characterisation for high-performance composite materials/structures.
Some particular subjects are mentioned here for reference and submission, e.g.,
- Continuous/short fibre/particle-reinforced composites.
- New theoretical or numerical methods.
- Dynamic impact and responses.
- Damage mechanisms and tolerance.
- Structural analysis and design optimisation.
- Fatigue and life-cycle assessment.
- Structural health monitoring.
- Interface properties and strength.
- Constitutive relations and multiscale modelling.
- Composite sandwich structures and others.
- Advances in the mechanics and design of advanced composites.
In this Special Issue, research-, development-, and application-related submissions on the mechanics of advanced composites and all other related domains are welcomed.
Dr. Yuan Chen
Dr. Quanzhou Yao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- composite structures
- modelling
- damage mechanisms
- structural analysis
- design optimization
- fatigue
- interface properties
- impact
- fibre-reinforced composites
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