Advanced Materials for Transport Applications

Dear Colleagues,

The present Special Issue is linked to the symposium E6, also entitled;Advanced Materials for Transport Applications, which will take place within the framework of the Euromat 2017 conference, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, 17-22 September, 2017. The Euromat 2017 conference is organized by the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS) and is one of the largest events of its kind in Europe, covering the whole field of materials science and technology through a large number of dedicated symposia and attracting roughly 2000 attendees. Within this framework, our own symposium addresses questions related to the use of advanced materials in the transport industry, which includes the aerospace, automotive, railway and maritime sector. The symposium is the fifth of its kind at Euromat and thus continues a series which originated at Euromat 2009 and continued through the events in 2011, 2013, and 2015 until the present year.

To set a thematic focus beyond the area of application, we are specifically looking for contributions on

• Additive Manufacturing for Transport Applications (Editors: Lehmhus,  von Hehl)

• Hybrid Engineering Materials and Structures for Multi-Material Designs (von Hehl, Alderliesten, Hausmann)      

• Light Weight Design and Composite Materials (all)      

• Intelligent Materials, Structures and Systems (Lehmhus)      

• Simulation, Modeling, Optimization and Big Data Applications for Process Discovery (Kayvantash, Hohe, Hausmann)

While the core of the Special Issue's contributions is meant to be sourced from the Euromat symposium, submissions are not limited to Euromat 2017 contributors. Instead, we explicitly welcome external submissions. The focal topics listed above are not meant to exclude articles from additional areas, as long as a link to applications in the transport sector is there. Similarly, we do not intend to limit the Special Issue's focus to structural materials only, but will endeavor to also include studies on functional materials with relevance for applications in transportation.

We are looking forward to receiving your submissions and would like to kindly invite you to address any of the Guest Editors in case of further questions.

Dr.-Ing. Dirk Lehmhus
Prof. Joachim Hausmann
Dr.-Ing. Axel von Hehl
Dr.-Ing. Joerg Hohe
Dr.ir. R.C. Alderliesten
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kambiz Kayvantash
Guest Editors

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