Research Progress on Mechanical Behavior of Polymers, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Analysis and Characterization".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2026 | Viewed by 26
Special Issue Editor
Interests: fatigue; fracture; structural integrity; failure analysis; mechanical behaviour of materials
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Polymers offer a wide range of mechanical behaviors that profoundly affect their performance and determine their application in transforming healthcare, consumer goods, and the automotive and aerospace industries, among others. Moreover, additive manufacturing has revolutionized polymer applications, allowing for the creation of complex components with reduced waste and customized mechanical properties that depend on the materials used, process parameters, printing strategies, and postprocessing. Therefore, prominent thermoplastics such as polylactic acid (PLA), polyethylene terephthalate glycol (PETG), or polyethylether ketone (PEEK), to name just a few, are now widely employed for prototyping and making functional parts of consumer products, e.g., for biomedical, aerospatial, oil, and gas applications.
Hence, a thorough understanding of the mechanical properties of this class of engineering materials, either at room or at low/high temperatures, is crucial for designing durable polymer components.
In this Special Issue, we invite researchers and practitioners to contribute their expertise and insights to further our understanding of topics such as the yield strength, tensile strength, hardness, ductility, fracture toughness, fatigue, creep deformation, and failure mechanisms of recently developed or newly applied polymers.
Dr. Rui F. Martins
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- polymers
- additive manufacturing
- mechanical behavior
- structural integrity
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