Applied Sciences

Mechanical Properties and Characterization Technologies of Composite Materials

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submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4793 | Submission Open

Keywords: natural fibers; fiber-reinforced mortars and concrete; textile-reinforced mortars (TRMs); harsh exposure; FRCM; 3D printing; supplementary cementitious materials; nanomaterials and nanocomposites; unconventional reinforcement; recycled aggregates; waste; self-healing mortar and concrete; smart/multifunctional composite; self-sensing composites; alkali-activated materials; geopolymers; building materials; calcium sulfoaluminate binders; cementitious composites; hybrid binders; calcinated clays; fly ash; blast furnace slag; natural pozzolans; waste management; immobilization of toxic wastes; foamed and lightweight concretes; mortars; grouts and renders; reinforced concrete; precast concrete; corrosion; durability; environmental assessment; materials processing; rheology; performance-based specifications; activators; additives

(This special issue belongs to the Section Materials Science and Engineering)

5th Anniversary of Aerospace Science and Engineering Section—Recent Advances in Aerospace

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submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 4711 | Submission Open

Keywords: aircraft; engine; propulsion; aerodynamics; flight control; astrodynamics; space science; artificial intelligence

(This special issue belongs to the Section Aerospace Science and Engineering)

Crop Yield and Nutrient Use Efficiency

edited by

Jingguang Chen

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4696 | Submission Open

Keywords: crop yield; crop nutrition; fertilizer use

(This special issue belongs to the Section Agricultural Science and Technology)

Functional Foods and Their Impact on Human Health: From Mechanisms to Applications

edited by

Ewelina Zielińska

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4087 | Submission Open

Keywords: functional food; novel food; bioactivity; food supplementation; nutraceuticals

(This special issue belongs to the Section Food Science and Technology)

Biomechanics and Technology in Sports

edited by

Toni Modric

and

Sime Versic

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3850 | Submission Open

Keywords: sports biomechanics; movement assessment; sports technology; athletic performance; wearable sensors; motion analysis; kinematics; kinetics; data-driven training; performance enhancement

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)

Smart Grids and Batteries for Sustainable Power Energy System

edited by

Rajesh Karki

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3513 | Submission Open

Keywords: smart grids; battery storage; sustainable energy; renewable integration; energy efficiency; grid stability; system reliability; infrastructural and operational resilience; digital communication; automation in energy systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Energy Science and Technology)

Occupational Well-Being: Enhancing Safety and Ergonomics in the Work Environment

edited by

Anna Dąbrowska

and

Małgorzata Okrasa

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3412 | Submission Open

Keywords: occupational safety and health; smart personal protective equipment; smart working environment; internet of things; cyber-physical system; Industry 4.0/Industry 5.0; wearables; smart materials; AR/MR/VR/XR

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)

Artificial Intelligence on the Edge for Industry 4.0

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submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3085 | Submission Open

Keywords: Industry 4.0 and beyond; smart manufacturing and automation; digital twins; augmented and virtual reality; cybersecurity in Industry 4.0; blockchain technology; sustainable manufacturing; human-machine collaboration; additive manufacturing; Industry 4.0 and the digital transformation of manufacturing; collaborative robots (cobots); education; innovation and change management in the industrial sector; data science; artificial intelligence and machine learning; deep learning; explainable AI and trustworthiness; computer vision; supply chain optimization; quality control and defect detection; energy management and optimization; robotics and automation; natural language processing for customer service; fraud detection and prevention; cybersecurity and threat detection; big data analytics for industry; optimization of industrial processes; precision agriculture; predictive maintenance Internet of Things and Industrial Internet of Things; smart cities and IoT; industrial automation and the IIoT; IoT-enabled smart homes; IoT and environmental monitoring; IoT and supply chain management; IoT and cybersecurity in industrial environments; IoT analytics and machine learning; 5G and the IoT; IoT and IIoT connectivity technologies and standards; IoT and IIoT interoperability and integration with legacy systems and protocols; cloud and edge computing; edge computing use cases and applications across different industries; cloud and edge security challenges and solutions; distributed systems and data management in the cloud and at the edge; edge computing hardware and software platforms and their integration with the cloud; cloud and edge performance and scalability challenges and solutions; edge computing architectures and their integration with cloud providers; edge computing and cloud computing interoperability and integration; edge computing and cloud computing for real-time and mission-critical applications; fog computing and its relationship to cloud and edge computing; edge computing for mobile and wireless networks

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Advances in Internet of Things (IoT) Security: Challenges and Applications

edited by

Hoon Ko

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3043 | Submission Open

Keywords: cyber-security; smart-city; human relationships; relational contexts; meta-analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Sustainable Mobility and Transportation (SMTS 2025)

edited by

Dogossy Gábor

and

Szabolcs Kocsis Szürke

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 2327 | Submission Open

Keywords: vehicle development; diagnostics and testing; materials technology; autonomous vehicle; fuels and lubricants; electromobility; mobility and society; AI and control; manufacturing technology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Transportation and Future Mobility)

Feature Review Papers in Mechanical Engineering, 2nd Edition

edited by

Alessandro Ruggiero

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1951 | Submission Open

Keywords: mechanical engineering; tribology; materials; manufacturing; mechatronics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)

Smart Materials and Multifunctional Mechanical Metamaterials

edited by Chengjun Zeng, Fei Pan and Xiaozhou Xin

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1917 | Submission Open

Keywords: stimuli-responsive materials; shape-memory polymers; bio-inspired composites; mechanical metamaterials; energy absorption; smart structures

(This special issue belongs to the Section Materials Science and Engineering)

Soil Liquefaction in Geotechnical Engineering

edited by

Yu Zhao

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1776 | Submission Open

Keywords: liquefaction; earthquake; shear waves; seismic hazard; centrifuge modeling; liquefaction evaluation; numerical simulation; data mining; high overburden stress; geological age; porewater pressure; bender element test; static cone penetration test; standard penetration tests

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Application and Development of New Materials and Intelligent Technologies in Civil Engineering Construction

edited by Ke Sheng,

Xin Liu

, Shengtao Zhou and Dongxing Wang

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1772 | Submission Open

Keywords: civil engineering construction; new materials; intelligent technologies; sustainable construction; tunnel engineering; slope stabilization; intelligent monitoring systems; numerical simulation; green construction materials

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Feature Review Papers in Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering, 2nd Edition

edited by

Francesco Cappello

,

Alessandra Maria Vitale

and

Stefano Burgio

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1725 | Submission Open

Keywords: histology; embryology; microscopic anatomy; tissue bioengineering; bioinformatics; regenerative medicine; biomaterials; translational bioengineering; personalized medicine

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)

Machine Learning and Its Application for Anomaly Detection

edited by

Naeem Ayoub

and Amira Mouakher

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1699 | Submission Open

Keywords: anomaly detection; explainable AI (XAI); time-series analysis; generative AI; predictive maintenance; cybersecurity; industrial monitoring; healthcare analytics; real-time systems; federated learning; privacy-preserving machine learning; image anomaly detection; edge computing; cloud-based detection; outlier detection; adaptive detection systems and industrial IoTs

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

In Situ and Laboratory Tests for Analysis and Application in Soil Mechanics

edited by

Antonio Cavallaro

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1636 | Submission Open

Keywords: in situ tests; laboratory tests; soil mechanics; calculation models; earthquake hazards; case studies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Machine Learning and AI Techniques for Intrusion Detection and Prevention

edited by Pierre Parrend

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1628 | Submission Open

Keywords: cybersecurity; detection; prevention; generative AI; supervised learning; unsupervised learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Multidisciplinary Collaborative Design of Aircraft

edited by

Baigang Mi

and

Wei Huang

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1544 | Submission Open

Keywords: multidisciplinary design; coupling optimization; intelligent design; inverse design; high fidelity; high efficiency

(This special issue belongs to the Section Aerospace Science and Engineering)

Biotechnology in Animals

edited by

Kristina Gvozdanović

,

Ivona Djurkin Kušec

and

Dubravko Škorput

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1535 | Submission Open

Keywords: biotechnology; livestock; genetic improvement of livestock; genetically modified animals; gene editing; comparative genomics and biodiversity; reproductive biotechnologies; disease resistance; therapeutic proteins

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)

New Insights into Astronomy and Astrophysics

edited by Chenhui Niu

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1386 | Submission Open

Keywords: astronomical instument; astronomical technology; astrometry; telescopes; digital backends; analog signal system; numerical simulation; RFI; pulsar astronomy; galaxy astronomy; HI 21cm

(This special issue belongs to the Section Aerospace Science and Engineering)

Topical Advisory Panel Members' Collection Series: Waste Reuse, Recycling, and Recovery—2nd Edition

edited by

Davide Mombelli

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1366 | Submission Open

Keywords: circular economy; extractive metallurgy; metallurgical residues recovery; secondary raw materials; waste management; slag; dusts; sludges; skims; dross; cement and concrete; asphalt; exhaust salts

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Sciences)

Advanced Geotechnical Engineering Technology and Application in Environmental Detection

edited by

Tingyao Wu

, Ling Ji and Yuqing Xia

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1236 | Submission Open

Keywords: geotechnical monitoring technology; environmental adaptability; environmental testing; tunnels; slopes; buildings; standards

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Structural Design of Buildings and Civil Engineering Constructions

edited by Shuling Hu and Ruizhao Zhu

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1186 | Submission Open

Keywords: structural design; civil engineering construction; smart technologies; resilient infrastructure; green building

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Advanced Materials Machining—Recent Advances, Applications and Challenges

edited by Jin Wang,

Valentino Paolo Berardi

and

Paulo J. Bártolo

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1052 | Submission Open

Keywords: grinding; forging; welding; surface treatment; laser processing; electrical discharge machining; electron beam processing; metal; non-metal; composite material

(This special issue belongs to the Section Materials Science and Engineering)

Environmental Geotechnical Engineering and Geological Disasters

edited by

Xianghong Ding

, Huaxiang Yan,

Biao Luo

and

Wenle Hu

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 991 | Submission Open

Keywords: environmental geotechnical engineering; geological disasters; contaminated sites; slope stability; earthquake; sustainable geomaterials; eco-engineering

(This special issue belongs to the Section Earth Sciences)

Trends and Prospects of Orthodontic Treatment, 2nd Edition

edited by

Jong-Moon Chae

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 854 | Submission Open

Keywords: orthodontics; clear aligners; TSADs; CBCT; three-dimensional tooth movement

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Dentistry and Oral Sciences)

New Trends in Slope Stability

edited by

Hang Lin

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 830 | Submission Open

Keywords: slope stability; multi-field coupling; real-time monitoring; numerical modeling; case studies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Mechanical Properties of Concrete: Advances, Applications and Challenges

edited by Linfei Li

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 804 | Submission Open

Keywords: mixed-design optimization; durability; sustainability; innovative testing methods; material characterization; field testing and applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Advanced Technologies and Applications of Microwave and Millimeter Wave

edited by

Atsushi Mase

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 766 | Submission Open

Keywords: microwave technology millimeter wave; technology telecommunications; defense systems; high-speed wireless networks; high-resolution imaging automotive radar; artificial intelligence; Internet of Things (IoT)

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Physics General)

Advanced Research in Structures and Rocks in Geotechnical Engineering: 2nd Edition

edited by

Roohollah Kalatehjari

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 750 | Submission Open

Keywords: geotechnical engineering; rock mechanics; soil mechanics; foundation engineering; slop stability; computational geotechnics; landslides

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Design, Fabrication and Applications of Steel Structures

edited by Jie Wang and Fengjiang Qin

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 750 | Submission Open

Keywords: advanced materials; structural design; fabrication technology; additive manufacturing; structural performance; sustainable construction; steel-concrete composite structures; digitalization

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Current Technological, Methodological, and Organizational Research Trends in the Construction Industry, Third Edition

edited by

Bożena Hoła

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 722 | Submission Open

Keywords: construction industry; automation and robotization of construction processes; technological and organizational solutions; controlling executive processes; investment process; occupational safety; risks and hazards; safety management; sustainable development; management in construction; diagnostic of building structures; construction waste management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

A Geotechnical Study on Landslides: Challenges and Progresses

edited by

Haijia Wen

and

Zhongqiang Liu

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 708 | Submission Open

Keywords: landslides; infrastructure resilience; civil engineering; water conservancy engineering; road and railway engineering; landslide remediation; numerical modeling; remote sensing; risk management; disaster mitigation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Earth Sciences)

Advances in Computer Vision and Digital Image Processing

edited by

Panayiotis Vlamos

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 707 | Submission Open

Keywords: computer vision; digital image processing; deep learning; object detection; image segmentation; generative AI; medical imaging; scene understanding; multimodal data fusion; embedded vision systems; human– computer interaction; real-time image analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Real-Time Detection in Additive Manufacturing

edited by Zhuo Yang and

Richard (Chunhui) Yang

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 696 | Submission Open

Keywords: real-time monitoring; anormaly detection; in situ data; process control; sensors; modeling

(This special issue belongs to the Section Additive Manufacturing Technologies)

Advances in Phytochemicals: Extraction, Isolation, and Identification

edited by

Radu Ciprian Racovita

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 681 | Submission Open

Keywords: plant natural products; extraction methods; isolation and purification; structure elucidation; nuclear magnetic resonance; mass spectrometry; circular dichroism; X-ray crystallography; spectroscopy; chromatography

(This special issue belongs to the Section Chemical and Molecular Sciences)

Latest Research on Geotechnical Engineering—2nd Edition

edited by Bangbiao Wu, Xia Bian and Yingchun Li

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 546 | Submission Open

Keywords: mechanical behavior of geomaterials; geotechnical challenges in urbanization; sustainable geotechnics; geomaterial– structure interaction; climate change and geotechnics; numerical and analytical modeling; risk assessment and management; geotechnical monitoring and instrumentation; advanced testing and characterization of geomaterials; energy geotechnics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Emerging Concrete Technologies and Applications

edited by Ilinca Cornel and

Chiara Giosuè

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 528 | Submission Open

Keywords: high-performance concrete; sustainable and green concrete; smart concrete; monitoring and mathematical modeling of concrete structures; durable concrete solutions; circular economy in the construction of concrete structures; machine and deep learning in concrete technology and applications; prestressed concrete; post-tensioned concrete; fiber-reinforced concrete; precast; prefabricated; and pre-engineered concrete structures

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

New Horizons in Structural Health Monitoring of Railway Infrastructure

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submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 517 | Submission Open

Keywords: railway infrastructure; structural health monitoring; AI; monitoring technology; data mining; condition assessment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

5th Anniversary of 'Marine Science and Engineering' Section—Recent Advances in Marine Science

edited by

Marco F. L. Lemos

and

Celine Laroche

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 501 | Submission Open

Keywords: marine biotechnology; ocean sustainability; marine engineering; climate change and oceans; marine renewable energy; coastal resilience; aquaculture innovation; marine pollution and remediation; ocean monitoring and modeling; chemical and physical oceanography; sustainable marine resources; blue economy and marine technologies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Science and Engineering)

Anticancer Drugs: New Developments and Discoveries

edited by

Ana C. Henriques

and

Patrícia M. A. Silva

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 446 | Submission Open

Keywords: anticancer drugs; mechanisms of drug resistance; targeted therapy; drug delivery systems; nanotechnology in cancer treatment; cancer immunotherapy; drug toxicity and safety; computational drug repositioning; bioinformatics in oncology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)

Risk Assessment for Hazards in Infrastructures

edited by

Kleopatra Petroutsatou

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 428 | Submission Open

Keywords: infrastructure vulnerabilities; resilience; multi-hazard risk assessment; response and recovery planning; inspection and monitoring; financial sustainability of infrastructures; life-cycle cost estimation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Recent Developments in Condition Assessment and Maintenance Strategies for Road Infrastructure Networks

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submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 423 | Submission Open

Keywords: assessment of pavement condition in terms of quality and safety; development of and improvement in pavement management systems; short-term and long-term pavement performance monitoring and modeling; pavement management strategies at both project and network levels; rehabilitation and preservation techniques for pavements; novel materials and technologies for pavement preventive maintenance; pavement life cycle assessment; methods for enhancing pavement resilience

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Novel Timber Structures and Materials in Building Engineering

edited by

Bidur Kafle

,

Srikanth Venkatesan

and

Sathees Nava

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 407 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable material; engineered timber; experimental investigation; mechanical properties; novel material; timber structures; timber composites

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Machine Learning in Medicine and Health: Data, Methods and Applications

edited by Grażyna Suchacka,

Ioana Boeraş

and

Ionela Maniu

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 391 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning; laboratory (bio)markers; risk factors/risk scores; classification; prediction; (disease) profiling; diagnosis; prognosis; artificial intelligence; medicine; bioinformatics; bibliometric

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Human–Robot Deep Learning and Interaction on Edge AI

edited by

Yi-Zeng Hsieh

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 371 | Submission Open

Keywords: edge AI; human-robot; deep learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Electrochemistry and Corrosion of Materials

edited by

Rajib Kalsar

, Sridhar Niverty,

Vineet V. Joshi

and Lyndi Strange

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 366 | Submission Open

Keywords: electrochemistry and material degradation; long-term corrosion tests; multimodal corrosion measurements; microscopic electrochemistry: scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM) and scanning electrochemical cell microscopy (SECCM); scanning Kelvin probe force microscopy (SKPFM); multiphysics modeling

(This special issue belongs to the Section Materials Science and Engineering)

Structural Pounding Risk between Buildings

edited by

Maria Favvata

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 346 | Submission Open

Keywords: structural pounding; separation distance; seismic structural engineering; nonlinear dynamics; engineering demand parameters; structural demand hazard; performance levels and objectives; fragility curves; risk targeting; acceptable risk; mitigation methods; design provisions

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Fuzzy Optimization Method and Application

edited by

Konstantina Chrysafiadi

and

Evangelos Sakkopoulos

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 333 | Submission Open

Keywords: fuzzy logic; optimization; uncertainty; fuzzy programming; fuzzy decision-making; hybrid optimization techniques; uncertainty modeling; fuzzy systems

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