Thermal and Mechanical Properties of Porous Cellular Materials and Their Composites
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2019) | Viewed by 7067
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Interests: heterogeneous media; porous media; cellular materials; foam; modeling; thermal properties; mechanical properties
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Dear Colleagues,
Materials with cellular structure widely occur in nature. We can cite as examples bone, coral, cork, wood, plant stems. Inspired by them, manufactured porous cellular media and their composites have seen strong development these last few years. Among them, honeycomb, foams, opacified foams or hybrid materials containing cellular materials present, not only thermal, lightness, but also mechanical properties, which make them very interesting for numerous applications.
Advances have been achieved these last few years, in parallel in various scientific communities, those of materials, heat and mass transfer and mechanics. Research has been focusing on the characterization of thermal and mechanical effective properties of such porous materials, via analytical, numerical and experimental methods. Because of the complex architecture of cellular materials, it is difficult to predict their properties using analytical calculations without important simplifications to the architecture. Analytical methods require often simplified architecture of foam (such as cubic cells) while numerical approaches model the physical mechanisms in a representative elementary volume using discretized pore-scale model of the foam (obtained from X-ray tomography, Voronoi tessellation method, etc.). Recent advances on analytical, computational and experimental method permit to better understand the properties of these materials.
It is our pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript for this Special Issue. Full papers, communications, and reviews are all welcome.Prof. Dominique Baillis
Prof. Nicola Bianco
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Computational Modeling
- Materials Science
- Cellular Materials
- Porous media
- Thermal Properties
- Mechanical Properties
- Transport properties
