Polymers and Polymeric Composites Application for Mechanical Engineering
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Composites and Nanocomposites".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 August 2024) | Viewed by 5119
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Polymers and polymeric composites show viscoelasticity, which has been applied as a damping design for elastic wave energy dissipation in engineering practice, such as in the fields of aerospace, transportation, military and mechanical engineering. At present, with the trend towards energy conservation, lighter-weight and higher-speed design for mechanical structures and equipment, the acoustic and vibration problems are amplified, and the response structures are potentially larger and less desirable. Through the theory of elastic wave propagation in solid media and the energy dissipation mechanism of viscoelastic damping, polymers and polymeric composites can be considered efficient materials with the potential to conquer these issues. This Special Issue focuses on recent advances in polymers, polymeric composites and related applications for mechanical engineering in terms of elastic wave dissipation. Both reviews and original research papers are acceptable, on the following topics of polymers and polymeric composite structures:
- Elastic wave motion, mechanical energy dissipation;
- Acoustic and vibration attenuation;
- Sound radiation, resistance, transmission loss, reflection;
- Impact, shock and explosive response;
- Mechanics constitutive model construction;
- High-strength and toughened design.
Dr. Xiaoqiang Zhou
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- viscoelastic polymer materials
- composite structures
- mechanical engineering
- sound and vibration
- structural dynamics
- elastic wave propagation
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