This paper describes a new approach that can be used to determine the mechanical properties of unknown materials and complex material systems. The approach uses inverse finite element modelling (FEM) accompanied with a designed algorithm to obtain th...
Development and validation of reliable environment perception systems for automated driving functions requires the extension of conventional physical test drives with simulations in virtual test environments. In such a virtual test environment, a per...
This article explores the effects of parameters such as cutting speed, force, polymer wheel hardness, feed, and grit size in the abrasive belt grinding process to model material removal. The process has high uncertainty during the interaction between...
In the design of marine structures, structural design remains a critical activity, heavily guided by classification society rules that define dimensions of the structural elements. With the development of increasingly complex structures and the incre...
Thermoelectric generators (TEGs) possess the ability to generate electrical power from heat. As TEGs are operated under a thermal gradient, inhomogeneous material properties—either by design or due to inhomogeneous material degradation under th...
A precise characterization of material behavior is necessary to identify yield criteria or hardening laws for an accurate numerical design of sheet metal forming processes. Current models like Yld2000-2d or Hill’48 do not consider the plane strain st...
This paper presents a wireless diaphragm actuator and focuses on a lumped parameter grey-box model capable of simulating actuation displacement. Here, modelling aims to provide further insight into this smart material actuator and help facilitate des...
Thermoplastic polymers are widely used in industry to generate parts with reasonable production costs, lightweight, chemical stability, sustainability, and recyclability compared to other materials such as metals, metalloids, or even thermoset polyme...
The focus of this paper is on studying novel approaches to estimate sediment exchange between suspended-load and bed material in an unsteady sediment-laden flow with fine-grained sand. The erosion-deposition characteristics of the channel have close...
The surface finishing and stock removal of complicated geometries is the principal objective for grinding with compliant abrasive tools. To understand and achieve optimum material removal in a tertiary finishing process such as Abrasive Belt Grinding...
Moisture of bulk material has a significant impact on energetic efficiency of dry grinding, resultant particle size distribution and particle shape, and conditions of powder transport. As a consequence, moisture needs to be measured or estimated (mod...
Multi-material products are required in fused deposition modelling (FDM) to meet a desired specification such as a rigid structure with soft material for impact protection. This paper focuses on the thermoformability and shape recovery characteristic...
The corrosion of reinforcement induced by chloride ions is one of the most significant causes of durability deterioration for reinforced concrete (RC) buildings. The concrete material factors, including the water-to-cement ratio (w/c) of concrete, as...
Material and energy flow models (MFEMs) are widely used to support life cycle assessment (LCA) and sustainability analyses; however, increasing system complexity often results in models that are difficult to structure, reuse, and adapt across analyti...
Phase change materials (PCMs) are increasingly incorporated into façades and wall systems to enhance passive thermal regulation; however, their fire safety remains poorly understood. While PCMs effectively reduce cooling loads, limited data ex...
Fibrous natural-origin materials are not only attractive as raw materials in various applications but are also often produced as waste products in some manufacturing processes. Despite their comprehensive implementation as thermal or noise isolation...
Few early-stage building studies combine systematic design-space exploration with concurrent assessment of embodied carbon intensity (ECI) and installed material cost intensity (MCI). Evidence therefore remains limited on how design choices jointly a...
The use of ashes derived from various waste sources as supplements to synthesized ceramic reinforcement in metal matrices has been established. However, studies involving a combination of particulates from three different sources are rare. In a bid t...
Caloric cooling systems are potentially more efficient than systems based on vapour compression. Electrocaloric cooling systems use a phase transformation from the paraelectric to the ferroelectric state by applying or removing an electric field to p...
Scientific and technical issues related to the extraction and processing of raw materials are inextricably linked with environmental concerns. The extraction, transportation and processing of raw materials and the creation of new products place a hea...
As Guest Editors of this Special Issue, it was our responsibility to ensure that the contributions to the issue related to the extensive field of electromechanical energy conversion, with a special focus on the design, materials, and modeling of elec...
Material extrusion additive manufacturing enables us to combine more materials in the same nozzle during the deposition process. This technology, called material coextrusion, generates an expanded range of material properties, which can gradually cha...
Adaptability of properties of magnetic materials such as magnetorheological (MR) fluids, MR elastomers (MRE), and other magneto-active (MA) materials drives scientific activities worldwide, trying to broaden the fields of application of such material...
An urgent task in creating and using composite materials is the assessment and prediction of their performance properties and reliability. Currently, when studying the reliability of the materials, there is little experimental data, mathematical desc...
An iterative approach is taken to develop a fractal topology that can describe the material structure of phase changing materials. Transfer functions and frequency response functions based on fractional calculus are used to describe this topology and...
Manual grinding presents significant challenges for the task of high-precision shallow uniform grinding of curved rubber materials. The use of robots and grinding discs has the potential to substantially improve both the precision and efficiency of g...
Laminated glass interlayer materials polyvinyl butyral (PVB) and SentryGlas® (SG, kuraray, Houstan, TX, USA) exhibit thermal viscoelastic behavior under dynamic tensile loading. Significant temperature and strain rate effects on the behavior of t...
Currently, there is an increasing use of machine parts manufactured using 3D printing technology. For the numerical prediction of the behavior of such printed parts, it is necessary to choose a suitable material model and the corresponding material p...
Biphasic soft materials are challenging to model by nature. Ongoing efforts are targeting their effective modeling and simulation. This work uses experimental atomic force nanoindentation of thick hydrogels to identify the indentation forces are a fu...
This paper proposes a new CAD model for the design of lattice material components. The CAD model better captures the user’s design intent and provides a dual-scale framework to represent the geometry and material distribution. Conventional CAD...
It is increasingly necessary to promote means of production that are less polluting and less harmful to the environment following the UN 2030 agenda for sustainable development. Using natural cellular materials in structural applications can be essen...
Additive manufacturing, such as the 3D printing of composite materials for electronics is rapidly evolving, enabling the production of advanced electric and magnetic composites with tailored properties. These materials require special printing condit...
The study is dedicated to the accuracy of engineering analyses of virtual prototypes. In particular, it aims to quantify the importance of material models and data consistent with physical tests. The focus is set on the stress–strain material c...
Current industrial trends bring new challenges in energy absorbing systems. Polymer materials as the traditional packaging materials seem to be promising due to their low weight, structure, and production price. Based on the review, the linear low-de...
This paper presents selected characteristics of the metallic porous materials produced by the sintering of metal powders. The authors focus on materials produced from the iron powder (Fe) of ASC 100.29 and Distaloy SE. ASC 100.29 is formed by atomiza...
In an attempt to unveil the impact of the material law selection on the numerical modelling and analysis of the electromagnetic properties of superconducting coils, in this paper we compare the four most common approaches to the E-J power laws that s...
A new material model of magnesium alloys, combining both Hill’48 yield function and Cazacu’06 yield function, was developed and programmed into LS-DYNA using user subroutine, in which both slip dominant and twinning/untwinning dominant ha...
The characterization and modeling of the out-of-plane behavior of fiber-based materials is essential for understanding their mechanical properties and improving their performance in various applications, especially in the forming process. Despite thi...
This study investigates the impact of conventional versus non-conventional materials on creativity and perceived workload in architectural model-making. Motivated by the need to foster creativity in architectural education, the research hypothesized...
In this paper, the inelastic material models for Type 316H stainless steel, which is one of the principal candidate materials for elevated temperature design of the advanced high temperature reactors (HTRs) pressure retained components, are investiga...
Wear in microscale material removal is difficult to predict because material loss can proceed through several distinct pathways, including plastic deformation, adhesion, atom-by-atom attrition, tribochemical reactions, oxidation-assisted removal, and...
Masonry walls constructed of brick or block units have tended to suffer more serious damage when subjected to loads of both static and cyclic (such as an earthquake) nature as compared to other concrete or steel structures. Hence, the static and cycl...
To reveal the mechanical behavior and deformation patterns of geotechnical reinforcement materials under tensile loading, a series of tensile tests were conducted on plastic geogrid rib, fiberglass geogrid rib, gabion steel wire, plastic geogrid mesh...
One of the most critical issues during polymer finite element simulations is the selection of the proper material models. The widely used and accepted multilinear material models require load case-specific material tests, which are time and cost dema...
Reliable modeling and prediction of the long-term strength of materials are relevant, as they allow for accurate determination of the service life of structures and components made from these materials. The aim of this work is to develop models of th...
The purpose of this work was to develop a substitute material model for the analysis of reinforced concrete structures. This paper presents proposals to solve the problem of limited calculation time, both to perform simulation models and to perform e...
Fused deposition modeling (FDM) is one of the most common 3D printing technologies and is becoming a well-established production method. Short fiber-reinforced polymers represent a new class of printing materials that enhance the mechanical propertie...
To meet the demand for simulative materials exhibiting suitable hydraulic characteristics in geomechanical model tests, this research developed a type of simulative material using iron powder, quartz sand, and barite powder as aggregates, white cemen...
The aim of this study is to develop a methodology for static strength and failure mode simulation of hot-driven riveted joints. The purpose is to be able to accurately estimate a rivet joint’s static strength behaviour and its failure mode with...
Research has become increasingly more interdisciplinary over the past few years. Artificial intelligence and its sub-fields have proven valuable for interdisciplinary research applications, especially physical sciences. Recently, machine learning-bas...
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