Multiscale Innovative Materials and Structures

Dear Colleagues,

Nanomaterials are currently essential constituents of ground-breaking nano-electromechanical systems (NEMS). There is increasing attention in multiscale metamaterials and a rising demand for exploring the potential of such novel systems in real-life engineering applications, including: smart buildings, antiseismic engineering, and structural health monitoring. Investigation of the size-dependent response of advanced materials and structures has gained intensive interest in literature due to the vast application of NEMS in a broad spectrum of modern nanoengineering systems. Local approaches of continuum mechanics are not able to effectively describe the size-dependent behavior of nanomedia, and thus, development of suitable analytical and numerical models is of major significance in design and optimization of materials and devices in the small-scale range.

This Special Issue on Multiscale Innovative Materials and Structures is aimed at extending the fundamental understanding of the mechanics of multiscale materials, ranging from multifunctional lattices to nanocomposites, and its application to the design of unconventional materials and structures. This Special Issue intends to publish original research papers and review articles addressing innovative theoretical approaches and novel numerical proposals aimed at amending the current state of the art on size-dependent modeling of nanomaterials and -structures. Authors are invited to submit both theoretical and experimental contributions.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Nanosized and nanostructured materials;
• Periodic lattices and multiscale composites;
• Preparation, characterization, and application of nanomaterials;
• Nanocomposites, nanosystems, and nanodevices;
• Nonlinear lattices, hierarchical lattices;
• Nonlocal and generalized continua;
• Experimental and computational techniques in nanoscience;
• Design of ultralight structures and seismic devices for smart buildings.

Prof. Dr. Raffaele Barretta
Prof. Dr. Domenico De Tommasi
Prof. Dr. Fernando Fraternali
Guest Editors

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