Multi-scale Mechanics of Polymer Composites: Addressing Irregular and Non-periodic Architectures
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Physics and Theory".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2021) | Viewed by 179
Special Issue Editor
Interests: multi-scale analysis; damage mechanics; structural mechanics of textile preforms; mechanics of prepregs; liquid moulding; additive manufacturing; innovative manufacturing
Special Issue Information
Complexity and diversity of composite architectures continuously increases. Forming, draping, steering, hybridization, weaving/braiding for net-shaped parts create challenges for computationally efficient analysis. Classical multi-scale approaches are often based on idealized notion of representative volume and its regular surrounding. It appears to have serious limitations for many modern composites. Managing data flow between various hierarchical scales or spatial domains demand new modelling strategies. The current collection of papers aims at giving a snapshot of different state-of-the-art approaches and attempts to overview some of the key challenges. The focus of the issue is on computational methods applied to non-periodic architectures or strongly irregular strain fields (due to stress concentrators, component shape, etc).
Dr. Dmitry Ivanov
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- multi-scale mechanics
- polymer composites
- irregular and non-periodic architectures
- modeling
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