Fractal Mechanics of Engineering Materials, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Fractal and Fractional (ISSN 2504-3110).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 May 2025 | Viewed by 913
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fractal mechanics; constitutive modelling; fatigue and fracture mechanics; damage mechanics; experimental methods (DIC, fractal, hybrid expt-FEA)
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Interests: fractal mechanics; fracture mechanics; experimental mechanics; computational mechanics; advanced materials and structures
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Numerous engineering materials are inhomogeneous and inherit complex structures that exhibit statistical scale invariance over several length scales. These materials and structures include metals and alloys, geomaterials (rocks and aggregates), nanocomposites, engineered coatings and interfaces. The straining of these materials is quantified with appropriate theories within the domains of continuum, fracture, and damage mechanics. The fractality of geometrical features such as microstructures, granular aggregates, surface morphological irregularities and fatigue cracks can be quantified in terms of their fractal dimensions. The fractal analysis of these self-similar and multi-scale features aims to correlate the fractal geometry with meaningful mechanical quantities at micro-to-macro scale. These include mechanical properties, fracture toughness, crack-tip driving force and fracture potentials. Several methods including digital image correlation (DIC) as well as optical and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) have been employed in acquiring microscopic images of the material regions representing the phenomenon of interest. These images are then analyzed to establish relevant fractal parameters including fractal dimension and fractional fractal dimension. Several algorithms for greyscale thresholding, image partitioning and pixel counting are available and continuously being improved. The resulting fractal parameters could serve as material variables in the classical and new/unconventional approaches to continuum mechanics, LEFM, fatigue crack growth analysis, and damage mechanics.
This Special Issue on "Fractal Mechanics of Engineering Materials" aims to present the state-of-the-art research methodologies and outcomes in fractal approaches for engineering materials. Therefore, we invite authors to submit quality review papers, research articles, and technical notes addressing the fractal aspects of engineering materials and related issues. Research topics are described by, but not limited to, the following keywords:
- Materials: metals and alloys, geomaterials (rocks, aggregates), polymers, composites, nanomaterials, ceramics, functionally graded materials (FGMs), interfaces, modified surfaces, etc
- Continuum mechanics
- Fracture mechanics: LEFM, EPFM
- Fatigue and fatigue crack growth
- Damage mechanics
- Experimental mechanics: DIC, SEM, optical microscopy
- Fractal analysis: theoretical development, image analysis, algorithms
- Fractal dimension
- Fractional fractal dimension
- Computational method: FEA, BEM, numerical prediction
Prof. Dr. Mohd Nasir Tamin
Dr. Seyed R. Koloor
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fractal analysis
- fractal dimension
- fractal mechanics
- continuum mechanics
- fracture mechanics
- fatigue and fatigue crack growth
- damage mechanics
- experimental mechanics
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