Design, Optimization, and Mechanical Applications of Smart Materials and Structures
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Smart Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 11
Special Issue Editor
Interests: guided waves; wave propagation; acoustic/mechanical metamaterial; phononic crystals; smart materials and structures; numerical methods
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Smart materials and structures have been extensively utilized in aerospace, machinery, electronics, medicine, and other fields due to their advantages of specialized functionality, mechanisms, and multi-field coupling characteristics. Through innovative and targeted design strategies, smart materials and structures can achieve one or more functionalities, such as mechanical properties, wave propagation control, impact mitigation, energy absorption, vibration suppression and performance optimization in protective, acoustic, and electromagnetic domains.
This Special Issue seeks to compile cutting-edge research and expand the horizons of smart materials and structures. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: mechanical performances of novel mechanical metamaterials, experiments of novel mechanical metamaterials, vibration suppression and noise reduction in acousto-vibrational metastructures, sound/elastic wave propagation and tunability of acoustic/elastic metamaterials, wave propagation and active/passive control of electric/piezomagnetic metamaterials, anti-impact and buffering performances of mechanical metamaterials, innovative design and performance prediction of smart materials and structures, the design and optimization of multi-functional materials and structures, as well as the mechanical applications of smart materials and structures. Smart materials and structures contain the following: elastic metamaterials, acoustic metamaterials, mechanical metamaterials, piezoelectric/piezomagnetic composites, programmable materials/structures, bio-inspired composites, etc.
Dr. Chunlei Li
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- structure optimization
- mechanical performance
- multi-field coupling
- multi-functionality
- design and application
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