5th Anniversary of Nanotechnology and Applied Nanosciences Section—Recent Advances in Carbon Composites and Complex Materials
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Nanotechnology and Applied Nanosciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 4790
Special Issue Editors
Interests: theory of shells, plates, arches, and beams; generalized differential quadrature; FEM; SFEM; WFEM; IGA; advanced composite materials; functionally graded materials; nanomaterials and nanotechnology
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Interests: damage and fracture mechanics; contact mechanics; structural mechanics; solid mechanics; computational mechanics; advanced composite materials; nanomaterials and nanotechnology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The recent requirements in the design and manufacturing of nanosystems and nanotechnology have encouraged the use of carbon-based nanomaterials, particularly carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and graphene, due to their outstanding mechanical properties, high electrical and thermal conductivity, and reduced flammability.
In such a context, this Special Issue aims at gathering together experts and researchers for the mechanical modeling of micro/nanomaterials at different scales, as useful for biosensors, resonators, valves, pumps, porous structures, energy harvesters, and advanced composite structures. The well-known size dependance of most physical and mechanical properties of small-scale structures has favored the use of nonlocal continuum mechanics to simulate complicated scale phenomena in a consistent manner, both from a theoretical and computational standpoint. Advanced theories and high-performance computational models are welcome for the static and dynamic study of nanosystems and nanostructures, involving enhanced nonlocal damage and fracturing models, able to capture the size-dependent formation and propagation of internal cracks in complex heterogeneous materials and interfaces.
Dr. Francesco Tornabene
Prof. Dr. Rossana Dimitri
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- advanced computational methods
- auxetic materials
- buckling behavior
- carbon nanotubes
- complex materials
- composite beams, plates, and shells
- constitutive models
- damage
- delamination
- dynamics
- fracture mechanics
- functionally graded materials
- homogenization techniques
- metamaterials
- nanostructures
- nonlocal theories
- size effects
- smart materials
- statics
- theoretical, numerical, and experimental strategies
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