Polymeric Metamaterials: Design, Fabrication, Testing and Modeling
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Analysis and Characterization".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 June 2024) | Viewed by 8370
Special Issue Editors
Interests: additive manufacturing; 3D printing; metamaterials; solid mechanics; damage and fracture mechanics; computational mechanics; advanced materials and composites
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Polymeric metamaterials are architected cellular materials, also known as lattice materials, which are made of polymeric materials or their composites. Metamaterials can have architected microstructures that are inspired by nature, topology optimization and/or human engineering intuition, and provide multifunctional attributes that cannot be achieved by conventional polymeric materials and composites. There has been an increasing interest in the designing, fabricating, testing and modeling of polymeric metamaterials due to the recent advances in digital design methods, additive manufacturing techniques, 3D-printed polymeric materials and artificial intelligence algorithms. Therefore, the scope of this Special Issue is intended to assemble a collection of recent research on the design, fabrication, testing and modeling of polymeric metamaterials and composites including, but not limited to, topics such as the property–topology–material relationship, new lattice topologies, macro/micro-additive manufacturing techniques for such materials, inverse design using machine learning techniques, effect of manufacturing defects on lattice material properties, multiscale topology optimization and generative design methods, etc.
Prof. Dr. Rashid K. Abu Al-Rub
Dr. Imad Barsoum
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- metamaterials
- architected materials
- additive manufacturing
- 3D printing
- lattices
- topology optimization
- machine learning
- cellular materials
- foams
- biomimetic
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