Mechanical Properties of Nanocomposites: Design, Regulation and Applications
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Nanocomposite Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 March 2027 | Viewed by 41
Editor
Interests: composite materials; rotor dynamics; pipeline dynamics
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Dear Colleagues,
Advanced engineering systems ranging from aerospace rotating power equipment, long-distance fluid transmission pipelines to new-energy structural batteries are increasingly demanding lightweight, high-durability structural materials with mitigated interfacial stress concentration. Functionally graded nanocomposites stand out as a revolutionary solution, where spatially tunable nanoparticle distribution enables continuous gradient transitions in composition and microstructure, synergistically optimizing stiffness, toughness, damping and impact resistance to overcome the inherent defects of traditional homogeneous or layered composite materials. Nevertheless, grand challenges still restrict their large-scale industrial deployment: unclear structure-mechanism relationships of gradient nanointerfaces, unstable dynamic vibration of gradient composite rotors under multi-field coupling, flow-induced fatigue failure of composite pipelines, and irreversible mechanical degradation of battery composite electrodes during long cycling. These bottlenecks have greatly stimulated cross-disciplinary research covering nanomaterial design, structural dynamics modeling, and service mechanical performance regulation in recent years.
This Special Issue entitled Mechanical Properties of Nanocomposites: Design, Regulation and Applications aims to collect and disseminate cutting-edge advances on functionally graded nanocomposites, covering fundamental mechanical theories, microstructure regulation strategies, multi-scale modeling methodologies, and practical structural applications in dynamic machinery and energy storage devices. It welcomes original research, review articles and communications bridging material fabrication and structural dynamic performance evaluation.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to:
- Fabrication, microstructure tailoring and gradient profile design of functional graded nanocomposites
- Rotor structural dynamics, vibration suppression and fatigue analysis of gradient composite rotors
- Fluid-structure coupling dynamics and anti-shock design of gradient composite pipeline systems
- Interfacial mechanics, structural damage and cycle stability of composite structural batteries
- Multi-scale mechanical modeling, finite element and atomistic simulation approaches for graded nanomaterials
- Fracture, damage evolution and failure mechanisms under extreme thermal-mechanical loads
- Lightweight optimization and reliability assessment of gradient composite engineering components
- Online and offline mechanical condition monitoring of composite dynamic structures
Dr. Tianyu Zhao
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- functionally graded nanocomposites
- composite mechanical properties
- rotor dynamics
- pipeline dynamics
- structural battery mechanics
- multi-scale modeling
- vibration and fatigue analysis
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