Functionalized Micro-Structured Elastic Materials
A special issue of Actuators (ISSN 2076-0825). This special issue belongs to the section "Actuator Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2021) | Viewed by 533
Special Issue Editors
Interests: phononic materials: purely mechanical structures as well as phononic materials comprised of piezoelectric elements and other elements with electro-mechanical coupling
Interests: vibration analysis; wave propagation; metamaterials; nonlinear dynamics; acoustic absorption
Interests: vibration analysis; piezoelectricity; wave propagation; metamaterials; design of magnetic components; flow-induced vibrations
Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
Phononic crystals and metamaterials offer an unprecedented opportunity for a very diverse scientific community to work on exciting topics around the synthesis of novel materials with extraordinary properties: Non-reciprocal wave propagation, wave isolation, lensing, auxeticity, and unusual responses such as coupling of linear and torsional deformation are only some of the achievements reported in literature. The design of novel materials at the meso-scale allows for a flexibility unknown to our colleagues in the development of ‘traditional’ materials: Here, we are free to include in the design of a material’s unit cell-active elements such as piezoelectric components, including associated electric circuitry, shape memory alloys, mechanisms such as inertial amplification elements, and many more. These components represent the actuation element in adaptive or active structures, which brings together the Actuators community. Actively controlled metamaterials can even go a step further by modulating material properties in time.
The contributions of this Special Issue will explore the novel possibilities offered by the inclusion into the unit cell of functionalities that go beyond mass and spring elements. Functionalized micro-structured elastic materials offer us a nearly unlimited playground to conceive, analyze, and characterize materials and their properties as they emerge from large assemblies of functionalized unit cells, including actuator elements. This Special Edition will give an opportunity to present advances in theoretical and experimental aspects of the design of novel materials.
Dr. Andrea Bergamini
Dr. Bart Van Damme
Dr. Boris Lossouarn
Prof. Dr. Francesco dell'Isola
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Functional materials
- Materials design
- Elastic metamaterials
- Material properties
- Wave propagation
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