New Trends in Advanced Materials and Mechanical Behavior of Materials
A Special Issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417) belonging to the section "Materials Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 April 2027 | Viewed by 131
Editors
Interests: fracture mechanics; elasticity; solid mechanics; mechanical properties; mechanical engineering; engineering, applied and computational mathematics; finite element analysis; stress analysis; mechanics of materials; concrete
Interests: fracture mechanics; elasticity; solid mechanics; mechanical properties; mechanical engineering; engineering, applied and computational mathematics; finite element analysis; stress analysis; mechanics of materials; concrete
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The rapid development of advanced materials is reshaping the conception, design, and assessment of engineering structures. Novel material systems—ranging from architected and lattice materials to advanced composites, smart materials, and additively manufactured metals—have granted researchers unprecedented levels of control over mechanical performance across multiple length and time scales. At the same time, the increasing complexity of these materials poses new challenges with regard to experimental characterization, constitutive modeling, numerical simulation, and structural integrity assessment.
This Special Issue aims to provide a comprehensive platform for recent advances in the understanding, modeling, and application of advanced materials under mechanical loading. Emphasis is placed on the mechanical behavior of materials subjected to static, cyclic, and dynamic conditions, including damage initiation, fracture, fatigue, impact, and multiscale phenomena. Contributions addressing experimental techniques, theoretical developments, and computational approaches—such as multiscale modeling, phase-field methods, lattice and metamaterial modeling, and data-driven or hybrid methodologies—are of particular interest.
By collating contributions from different scientific and engineering communities, this Special Issue seeks to foster interdisciplinary discussion and to highlight the emerging trends bridging material science, solid mechanics, and structural engineering. This collection will serve both as a reference for researchers and as a catalyst for future developments in advanced material design and mechanical performance.
Dr. Matias Braun
Dr. Josue Aranda-Ruiz
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- advanced materials
- mechanical behavior
- fracture and damage mechanics
- metamaterials
- additive manufacturing
- multiscale modeling
- experimental mechanics
- computational mechanics
- fatigue and impact behavior
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