Editorial Board Members' Collection Series: Mechanical Analysis of Composite Materials, 2nd Edition
A Special Issue of Journal of Composites Science (ISSN 2504-477X) belonging to the section "Composites Modelling and Characterization".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2027 | Viewed by 968
Editors
Interests: fracture mechanics of composites; strength of fibers and multifilament tows; probabilistic approaches to fracture
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Interests: elastodynamics; viscoelasticity; elastoplasticity; wave propagation; composite materials; fracture mechanics; contact problems and applied numerical solutions of partial diferential equations
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Composite materials are critical in many applications, and they can replace metallic materials in many systems or goods. Their range of applications is very broad, from room temperature to very high temperature, in ambient to severe environments. The composites of interest herein consist of a matrix (polymer, ceramic, including carbon, and metal) reinforced by continuous and long fibers (ceramic, carbon, vegetal, Kevlar, etc.). The large variety of possible combinations of matrix and fiber types allows for the design of composite materials tailored to application requirements and performances. The composite engineering provides materials with properties superior to the properties of constituents considered separately.
Fiber-reinforced composites are heterogeneous and anisotropic materials. Mechanical analysis requires appropriate and specific approaches. Several issues are still unsolved, and questions remain open, such as the ability to properly characterize and safely predict the mechanical behavior and failure of components.
This Special Issue is aimed at covering the state of the art in the mechanical analysis of composites, modern developments therein, and their innovative application. Original research and review articles are welcome.
Prof. Dr. Jacques Lamon
Prof. Dr. Jacob Aboudi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- polymer matrix composites
- ceramic matrix composites
- carbon/carbon composites
- metallic matrix composites
- fracture
- damage
- fatigue
- creep
- finite element analysis
- simulation
- numerical modeling
- multiscale modeling
- mechanical testing
- NDE
- acoustic emission
- fractography
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