Compressive Strength, Impact Damage and Crushing Behavior of Materials
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 January 2026 | Viewed by 148
Special Issue Editors
2. CIRI Interdepartmental Center for Industrial Research on Aerospace, CIRI-Aero, University of Bologna, Via Baldassarre Carnaccini 12, 47121 Forli, FC, Italy
Interests: fatigue; impact; crashworthiness behaviour of composite materials
Interests: fatigue and damage tolerance; crashworthiness; composite materials; light alloys; laser shock peening; structural health monitoring
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue seeks to assemble original research and in-depth review articles focused on the compressive strength, impact damage, and crushing behaviour of materials across diverse scales and applications. In contemporary engineering, materials are often driven to their performance thresholds in contexts such as aerospace and automotive components, civil infrastructure, and defence systems. Therefore, gaining a comprehensive understanding of their behaviour under extreme loading conditions is essential for ensuring safety, optimising performance, and enhancing design strategies.
We invite contributions that focus on the mechanical response of traditional and advanced materials under high-strain-rate loading, quasi-static compression, and impact/crushing scenarios. Emphasis is placed on experimental investigations, theoretical modelling, and numerical simulations that provide insight into failure mechanisms, energy absorption, post-failure behaviour, and microstructural effects.
Research areas may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Energy absorption and crashworthiness of structural components.
- Compressive strength of metals, polymers, ceramics, composites, and bio-inspired materials.
- Damage evolution under dynamic and quasi-static compression.
- Multi-scale and multi-physics modelling of crushing and impact response.
- Influence of material architecture (e.g., cellular, lattice, or graded structures) on crushing performance.
- Novel materials and design strategies for improved impact resistance.
- High-speed imaging, digital image correlation, and other advanced diagnostics in impact testing.
- Effects of temperature, strain rate, and environment on compressive failure behaviour.
- Applications in aerospace, automotive and protective structures, and biomechanics.
Dr. Maria Pia Falaschetti
Dr. Enrico Troiani
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- crashworthiness
- impact damage
- compressive strength
- experimental tests
- numerical simulations
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