Multifunctional Coatings and Their Applications in Composite Materials and Structures: Modeling, Experiments, Preparation and Performance Evaluation
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Thin Films and Interfaces".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 June 2026 | Viewed by 53
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Interests: vibration; advanced materials; thermodynamic; nonlinear vibration; advanced protective coating; thermal environment; material and geometric nonlinearities; vibration damping; degradation behavior; dynamic degradation; grille composite; magnetorheological material; fiber reinforced composite
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Dear Colleagues,
Composite materials and structures are widely used in the aerospace, automotive, energy, marine, and biomedical engineering fields due to their lightweight and high-strength characteristics. Because they often operate under harsh loading conditions, including high temperature, vibration, impact, and high-speed gas corrosion, an increasing number of problems, such as excessive vibration responses, functional degradation, dynamic fatigue, and impact damage, have occurred. Multifunctional coating has increasingly played an important role in structural thermal protection and improvement in static and dynamic mechanical performance. In recent years, the development of coating material design, coating techniques, and microstructural tailoring has led to the emergence of various advanced coating systems, such as functionally graded coatings, thermal barrier coatings, corrosion-/wear-resistant composite coatings, and damping coatings.
Considerable progress has been made in the study of mechanical problems in coating materials and structures. However, numerous issues have not been fully resolved, such as the bonding effect between the coatings and substrate interfaces of various materials, the response prediction of thermal vibration and thermal impact of different coated structures, the related nonlinear dynamic problems caused by coating materials, and failure and damage mechanisms under extreme thermal and mechanical coupling conditions, among others.
This Special Issue cordially invites submissions of original research articles, reviews, or communications related to the design, modeling, testing, and preparation of multifunctional coatings and their applications in composite materials and structures. Contributions focusing on multifunctional integration of coatings, interface behavior analysis, thermal-vibration response, thermal-impact response, performance degradation and evaluation, and optimization analysis are particularly welcome.
Dr. Hui Li
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- composite materials
- multifunctional protective coatings
- functionally graded coatings
- coating–substrate interface behavior
- thermo-mechanical coupling
- vibration and damping performance
- dynamic modeling
- optimization design
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