Viscoelastic Solids: Mechanical Behaviour, Contact Mechanics, Fracture and Wear
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2017) | Viewed by 28891
Special Issue Editors
Interests: tribology; biomimetics; viscoelastic materials; contact mechanics; adhesion
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Interests: applied mechanics; tribology; lubrication; contact mechanics; design
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Assessing the mechanics and the physics of viscoelastic solids is a crucial issue in current engineering research and in applied science. Indeed, a variety of physical phenomena, including inter alia friction, adhesion, wear, are deeply influenced by viscoelasticity and determine in turn the behavior and the efficiency of a number of engineering systems, like adhesives, protective coatings, tires, seals, brakes, and clutches.
In all these cases, dealing with viscoelastic solids has intrinsically a high degree of complexity due to the strongly time-dependent constitutive stress-strain relations governing their response. Further intricacy is found when viscoelastic bodies get into contact and the problem is exacerbated by the geometry of the intimately mating surfaces.
The theoretical significance and the emergent novel applications strictly related as mentioned above have drawn the attention of a larger and interdisciplinary scientific community, involving expertise from engineering, physics and mathematics. The purpose of this Special Issue is to provide a forum and a survey for the most recent advances in the field of viscoelastic mechanics addressing the challenges in modern engineering applications.
We invite authors to submit original research and review articles, which stimulate the continuing efforts to understand and improve the knowledge in these fields. We are particularly interested in contributions focusing on mechanical behavior, contact and fracture of macro-, micro-, and nano-systems. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
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rheology and mechanical behavior of viscoelastic solids
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fracture, fatigue and wear of viscoelastic materials
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contact, lubrication and friction of viscoelastic randomly rough and micro- and nano-structured surfaces
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contact failures of biomimetic materials and surfaces
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adhesive contacts
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advanced numerical techniques to study contact and friction of randomly rough surfaces
Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Carbone
Dr. Carmine Putignano
Guest Editors
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Keywords
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rheology and mechanical behavior of viscoelastic solids
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fracture, fatigue and wear of viscoelastic materials
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contact, lubrication and friction of viscoelastic randomly rough and micro- and nano-structured surfaces
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contact failures of biomimetic materials and surfaces
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adhesive contacts
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advanced numerical techniques to study contact and friction of randomly rough surfaces
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