Advanced Metallic Composites and Their Properties
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2021) | Viewed by 538
Special Issue Editor
Interests: lightweight composite materials; porous and cellular materials; advanced metallic foams; syntactic foams; mechanical characterization; microstructural analysis; structure–property relationships; failure mechanisms
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is my pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript to the forthcoming Special Issue “Advanced Metallic Composites and Their Properties” of the international peer-reviewed open access Metals journal.
The current trend in the automobile and aerospace industries is to increase the use of lightweight materials and integrate them into products design in order to improve the fuel economy efficiency and reduce the weight, without comprising other attributes such as the cost, performance, comfort and safety. During the last two decades, the fully dense solid materials have lost slowly their applicability, while the use of metallic foams has experienced a rapid growth mainly due to their applications as core material in composite structures. Currently there is much interest in Metallic Foam Sandwiches and Metallic Foam-Filled Sections composites, mainly because such materials have been integrated into just about every field of today’s engineering world. Their crashworthiness behavior has a fundamental importance in the safety design of vehicles because their plastic collapse is the mechanism used to dissipate the kinetic energy of the vehicle in a controllable manner, without diminishing the passenger safety.
This Special Issue represents a good opportunity for researchers around the world to disseminate different aspects of their work related to recent developments in advanced composite metal foams and their properties. Research articles, communications and review articles are invited for this Special Issue.
If you need any further information about this Special Issue, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Dr. Emanoil Linul
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Advanced metallic composites
- Mechanical and physical properties
- Manufacturing techniques
- Collapse mechanisms
- Microstructure
- Metallic matrix
- Experimental testing
- Computational simulations
- Industrial applications
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