Mechanical Metamaterials and Smart Structures
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2017) | Viewed by 424
Special Issue Editor
Interests: mechanical metamaterials; nanomaterials theory and computation; surface phenomena in materials systems
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Dear Colleagues,
Recent findings in nonlinear mechanical systems analyses sparked a great interest in materials and elastic structures with reverse effective mechanical properties, such as compressibility, elastic modulus, Poisson ratio and thermal expansion coefficient. Practical opportunities of a material or structure, for example, expanding at an increased compressive load are numerous, varying from biomimetic systems and advanced robotics to smart structures and nonlinear acoustics. However, design of these properties is challenging. They may require multistable unit cells and a possibility of load driven polymorphic-type phase transitions, as in the negative compressibility materials. More generally, these properties are associated with some exotic regions in the system’s parameter space of non-convex topologies, and sophisticated fabrication techniques ranging from self-assembly to additive manufacturing.
In this Special Issue, modern trends in the theory, computation, design and fabrication of mechanical metamaterials, macroscopic smart structures and composite material systems with reverse bulk properties are discussed and highlighted.
It is my pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript for this Special Issue. Full papers, communications, and reviews are all welcome.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eduard Karpov
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- mechanical metamaterial
- negative compressibility
- reverse Poisson ratio
- multistable structures
- structural polymorphism
- superelasticity
