Modeling and Simulations of the Dynamic Mechanical Performance of Materials and Structures

Dear Colleagues,

Material damage and failure during intensive impact loading have become a key area of research in relation to physics and engineering. Complicated microstructure evolutions at high strain rates render it challenging to explore the micromechanisms of the non-linear events involved in dynamic fracture. Our Special Issue is focused on the recent developments and applications of computational theory, simulation methods, experiments, models, and algorithms for the analysis of the dynamic damage and failure of materials and structures, such as metals, alloys, ceramics, and composites; this is expected to provide an open and active forum to strengthen academic communications on this topic.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Multiscale models and methods;
• Computational approach and its optimization;
• Numerical simulations;
• Thermo-mechanical coupling;
• Data-driven modeling;
• Mechanism;
• Dynamic damage and fracture;
• Dynamic constitutive models;
• Dynamic responses of  inhomogeneous materials;
• Equation of state;
• Microstructure effects on material strengths;
• Shock experiments;
• AI applications in shock dynamics.

We hope that this Special Issue will stimulate further research in the field of material dynamic mechanical performance, promoting practical applications of advanced structural materials in extreme conditions.

Prof. Dr. Fang Wang
Dr. Meizhen Xiang
Dr. Xin Yang
Guest Editors

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