Mechanical Behaviors of Materials: Modelling and Measurement (2nd Edition)

Dear Colleagues,

It is my great pleasure to announce this Special Issue of Materials, entitled “Mechanical Behaviors of Materials: Modelling and Measurement (2nd Edition)”.

With advancements in modern materials, the relationship between mechanical behavior and novel material properties has become a critical issue in the field of engineering design and development.

Thanks to recent developments centered around computational power and data storage, multiscale modelling analysis has become available for the mechanical behavior study of material elements from macroscopic, microscale, and nanoscale approaches to the characterization of materials.

Moreover, novel developments of nondestructive, optical, acoustic, and image processing methods, etc., have actualized mechanical characterization and application endeavors in view of their ability to accurately measure displacements, strains, and stresses in real time and to gather full-field information without altering object conditions, making them fundamentally useful in complex fields, such as bioengineering, MEMS, high-precision metrology, etc.

This Special Issue aims to focus on multiscale advances in “Mechanical Behaviors of Materials: Modelling and Measurement (2nd Edition)”. The goal is to provide a forum on the state-of-the-art and frontier applications for modelling and characterization. Submissions should be in the form of original research articles or authoritative review papers on the following, non-exhaustive, list of topics:

• Advancements in finite element methods;
• Meshless methods;
• AI and machine learning;
• Mechanics of nanomaterials;
• Complex and emerging materials;
• Photoelasticity and interferometry applications;
• Image processing methods;
• DIC method and its applications;
• Multiscale and novel developments in nondestructive methods;
• Mechanics of materials and constitutive models;
• Bioengineering and biomechanics;
• Aerospace and aeronautical engineering;
• High-precision metrologies for machine tools and robot TCP.

Prof. Dr. Ming-Tzer Lin
Guest Editor

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