Computational Mechanics of Crash Structures

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue aims to present recent advances in computational mechanics for crash structures. This field is changing strongly due to new requirements and higher complexity concerning vehicular safety often in conflict with objectives in fuel economy, environmental aspects, and comfort. Innovations in computational assessments are necessarily related to new structural concepts, e.g., for electro-mobility and hydrogen cars, new materials like fiber reinforced composites or hybrid materials, new manufacturing techniques like additive manufacturing and advanced joining technology, and new computational achievements like isogeometric analysis and nonlinear model order reduction and other new algorithmic procedures related to design, simulation, optimization, robustness and reliability analyses including new approaches inspired by artificial intelligence schemes. Hence, new approaches on computational mechanics for crashworthiness are welcomed representing significant advances in these research topics.

Prof. Dr. Fabian Duddeck
Dr. Lukas F. Leidinger
Guest Editors

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