Tribology and Computational Mechanics for Materials

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue is devoted to advances in Tribology and Computational Mechanics of Materials. Tribology as a branch of science has received great attention from the materials community due to its interdisciplinary approach to control friction and wear in technical systems and its ability to enhance system performance and efficiency through the suitable monitoring of the superior mechanical and tribological properties of materials, from the monitoring of surface roughness and characteristics to the contact analysis of materials to yield better system performance. Friction and wear can be controlled through suitable surface engineering principles and lubrication approaches. The mechanics of materials, on the other hand, is not the only scientific discipline that governs the characteristics of engineering structures. It is often necessary to consider the interaction of several scientific fields such as chemistry, heat conduction and mechanics with the help of a multi-physics approach. With the advent and proliferation of digital computers, the branch of computation mechanics has evolved and has great impact on our understanding of the behaviours of materials and structures.

Engineering materials often show linear and nonlinear behaviour within the elastic, plastic, creep, damage, etc., limits of local deformation, which could be described through constitutive models and continuum mechanics. The behaviour of the material depends on many factors (environmental conditions, size, temperature, load type, rate, etc.) that affect the physical and mechanical properties and vary at different scales. A computational approach enables three-dimensional simulation of materials and structures to measure the internal behaviour of materials at different scales, as well as the prediction of the complicated behaviour of structures with complex geometry.

Additionally, the combination of upgraded tribological properties with computational mechanics of materials helps in the reduction in tribological losses to a great extent for different industrial sectors. Scholars in this field are invited to submit their experimental and numerical research results related to recent developments in the tribology of materials and the computational mechanics of materials and structures.

This Special Issue is intended to provide a platform for researchers working in different fields to disseminate their ideas on the design and characterization of new materials and their tribological characteristics, coupled with computational mechanics of structures and materials, highlighting novel computational techniques, experimental investigation and exploring additional promising applications.

Prof. Dr. Prasanta Sahoo
Guest Editor

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• engineering surfaces
• contact mechanics
• surface energy and adhesion
• friction, wear, lubrication
• frictional heat generation
• surface coatings and treatments
• novel materials, composites, FGM
• tribological measurements
• computational mechanics
• fatigue, fracture, creep, corrosion
• structural simulations