Design and analysis of structures made of advanced materials depend on the characterization and behavioral modeling of the materials to be used for assessment of the structural deformation and prediction of load tolerance in real operational conditions. Engineering materials often show linear and nonlinear behaviors within the elastic, plastic, creep, damage, etc., limits of local deformation, which could be described through constitutive models and continuum mechanics. The behavior of the material depends on many factors (environmental conditions, size, temperature, load type, rate, etc.) that affect the physical and mechanical properties and that vary at different scales, which could be considered in the constitutive models. Mathematical modeling and computational and experimental mechanics have been the frequently used approaches in the design and prediction of the material behavior and mechanical performance of structures. Experimental solid mechanics is used to determine the physical properties of the material and structural response to load, which is performed through stress analysis and measurement of the deformation, shape, and strain. Mathematical modeling of physical behavior in combination with a computational approach enables three-dimensional simulation of materials and structures to measure the internal behavior of materials at different micro-to-macro scales, as well as prediction of the complicated behavior of structures with complex geometry and design form. These processes including mechanical characterization, constitutive modeling, new approaches to computational mechanics, new experimentation, etc., become a challenging topic for new engineering material and structures that are being practiced daily by many researchers and academicians around the world.
This Research Topic collects novel scientific and review articles that contribute to the development of new experimental, computational, and hybrid methods bridging the gap between the fields of modeling, simulation, and experimentation of material and structures; with a special focus on the temperature-dependent behavior, degradation process due to damage, creep, corrosion, wear, fatigue, aging, environmental effect, etc. of advanced materials and structures in aerospace, automotive, oil & gas, energy industrial applications.
The details of the topics of interest are as follows:
• Advanced Materials: ductile materials, metals, and alloys, brittles and ceramics, polymers, biomaterials, biocomposites, nanocomposites, polymer composites, metal matrix composites, ceramic matrix composites, ductile composites, hybrid composites, sandwich structures, reinforced-concrete, etc.
• Characterization: physical, chemical, environmental, time-dependent;
• Mechanical Behaviour: linear-nonlinear deformation, elastic, hyperelastic, viscoelastic, plastic, etc.
• Damage Mechanics: fatigue, fracture, creep, impact, etc.
• Physical behavior: Moisture absorption, erosive or corrosive environmental effects, aging and long-term performance, etc.
• Novel testing methods: Static, monotonic, dynamic, impact, cyclic, creep, etc.
• Computational Mechanics: Finite element method, finite differences, peridynamics, real-time simulation, etc.
• Experimental solid mechanics: Material characterization, determination of structural responses, testing of complex structures, experimental stress analysis, etc.
• New Sciences: Photomechanics, repair mechanics, nanomechanics, micromechanics, etc.
• New applications: Aerospace, automotive, robotics, marine, energy, etc.
Design and analysis of structures made of advanced materials depend on the characterization and behavioral modeling of the materials to be used for assessment of the structural deformation and prediction of load tolerance in real operational conditions. Engineering materials often show linear and nonlinear behaviors within the elastic, plastic, creep, damage, etc., limits of local deformation, which could be described through constitutive models and continuum mechanics. The behavior of the material depends on many factors (environmental conditions, size, temperature, load type, rate, etc.) that affect the physical and mechanical properties and that vary at different scales, which could be considered in the constitutive models. Mathematical modeling and computational and experimental mechanics have been the frequently used approaches in the design and prediction of the material behavior and mechanical performance of structures. Experimental solid mechanics is used to determine the physical properties of the material and structural response to load, which is performed through stress analysis and measurement of the deformation, shape, and strain. Mathematical modeling of physical behavior in combination with a computational approach enables three-dimensional simulation of materials and structures to measure the internal behavior of materials at different micro-to-macro scales, as well as prediction of the complicated behavior of structures with complex geometry and design form. These processes including mechanical characterization, constitutive modeling, new approaches to computational mechanics, new experimentation, etc., become a challenging topic for new engineering material and structures that are being practiced daily by many researchers and academicians around the world.
This Research Topic collects novel scientific and review articles that contribute to the development of new experimental, computational, and hybrid methods bridging the gap between the fields of modeling, simulation, and experimentation of material and structures; with a special focus on the temperature-dependent behavior, degradation process due to damage, creep, corrosion, wear, fatigue, aging, environmental effect, etc. of advanced materials and structures in aerospace, automotive, oil & gas, energy industrial applications.
The details of the topics of interest are as follows:
• Advanced Materials: ductile materials, metals, and alloys, brittles and ceramics, polymers, biomaterials, biocomposites, nanocomposites, polymer composites, metal matrix composites, ceramic matrix composites, ductile composites, hybrid composites, sandwich structures, reinforced-concrete, etc.
• Characterization: physical, chemical, environmental, time-dependent;
• Mechanical Behaviour: linear-nonlinear deformation, elastic, hyperelastic, viscoelastic, plastic, etc.
• Damage Mechanics: fatigue, fracture, creep, impact, etc.
• Physical behavior: Moisture absorption, erosive or corrosive environmental effects, aging and long-term performance, etc.
• Novel testing methods: Static, monotonic, dynamic, impact, cyclic, creep, etc.
• Computational Mechanics: Finite element method, finite differences, peridynamics, real-time simulation, etc.
• Experimental solid mechanics: Material characterization, determination of structural responses, testing of complex structures, experimental stress analysis, etc.
• New Sciences: Photomechanics, repair mechanics, nanomechanics, micromechanics, etc.
• New applications: Aerospace, automotive, robotics, marine, energy, etc.
