Smart Manufacturing and Materials: 3rd Edition
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Mechanical Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 22
Special Issue Editor
Interests: piezoelectric materials; vibration damping; energy harvesting; sensors; actuators; smart materials and their applications; pneumatic drives and their energy efficiency; electromagnetic compatibility
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Dear Colleagues,
In the era of industrial transformation aligned with the Industry 4.0 concept, modern manufacturing technologies and advanced materials are becoming a growing area of interest for scientists, engineers, and businesses alike. The pursuit of increased production efficiency, product customization, and flexible assortment changes presents new challenges for manufacturing industries. However, cutting-edge technologies and materials enable the rapid development of industry and are reshaping both the nature of work and the role of humans in production processes. Efficiency, flexibility, and production speed translate directly into enhanced competitiveness and reduced production costs.
To achieve these goals, modern manufacturing technologies are applied, including additive manufacturing, systems based on virtual and augmented reality, artificial intelligence, autonomous robots, simulations, and systems integration. The use of big data operations and cloud computing is becoming essential, while the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and cybersecurity are gaining increasing importance. All these aspects are integral to the concept of smart manufacturing and smart factories.
The development of smart materials—both as components of manufactured products and as elements of production systems—opens entirely new technological paths and creates unprecedented opportunities. Their applications lead to the design of innovative devices and solutions that were previously unattainable. It is therefore crucial to develop concepts and research frameworks, both in laboratory conditions and in real-world applications of systems utilizing smart materials. Due to the complexity of the phenomena involved, modeling technical systems that incorporate smart materials is a demanding task. Nevertheless, creating accurate mathematical models at the design stage is a fundamental condition for their proper functioning. Thus, developing mathematical models and algorithms for analyzing and determining the characteristics of such systems is an important area of scientific research.
For this Special Issue, I invite the submission of original research papers and review articles that present innovative solutions in the field of smart technologies and smart materials. Topics may include modeling, testing, and practical applications.
I particularly encourage submissions that report conceptual work, laboratory experiments, and studies conducted on real-world systems, as well as research addressing modern modeling and simulation methods.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me via email.
Prof. Dr. Marek Placzek
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- smart technology
- smart materials
- simulation
- modeling
- analysis
- testing
- big data
- autonomous robots
- system integration
- industrial IoT
- cybersecurity
- cloud computing
- additive manufacturing
- reverse engineering
- virtual and augmented reality
- artificial intelligence
- piezoelectric transducers
- electrostatic materials
- magnetostrictive materials
- shape memory materials
- variable viscosity liquids
- thermoelectric materials
- light-emitting materials
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