Metal Matrix Composites: Experimental and Simulation

Dear Colleagues,

Continuous ecomonic growth requires sophisticated structural and fuctional materials. The combination of a number of materials has the potential to obtain outstanding properties, which single materials do not provide. Metal matrix composites (MMCs) have especially been mainly studied as high specific structural materials for aerospace and automobile applications since the early 1960s. In the present day,  we employ not only continuous fibers, but also discontinous fibers, particles, and nanowhiskers, such as carbon nanotubes. Furthermore, the addition of reinforcements has been considered to improve the thermal, electric, piezoelectric, magnetostrictive and other functions of metal matrices.

However, there have been few successful attempts to obtain the theoritical performance of reinforcements in MMCs due to issues in fabrication processes, interfacial chemical reactions, interfacial resistance, and so on. Therefore, it seems that the motivation for the development in academic and industrial fields has slowly waned. Nevertheless, MMCs continue to be potential candidates for providing unique, excellent properties, which cannot be obtained from other materials.

In this Special Issue, we are calling for papers to report on the newest research on any MMC. We are broadly interested in fabrication methods, the evaluation of fuctional and structural propeties, and interfacial interaction.

Prof. Dr. Hiroki Kurita
Prof. Dr. Fumio Narita
Guest Editors

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