Theoretical and Computational Study and Modelling on Novel Nanostructures
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Theory and Simulation of Nanostructures".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 17
Special Issue Editors
Interests: damage and fracture mechanics; contact mechanics; structural mechanics; solid mechanics; computational mechanics; advanced composite materials; nanomaterials and nanotechnology
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Interests: theory of shells, plates, arches, and beams; generalized differential quadrature; FEM; SFEM; WFEM; IGA; advanced composite materials; functionally graded materials; nanomaterials and nanotechnology
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Interests: advanced composite materials; doubly curved shells; functionally graded materials; generalized differential quadrature; higher-order theories; lattice honeycomb and anisogrid; multifield analysis; semi-analytical solutions
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The improved requirements in manufacturing nanotechnology have favoured the development of enhanced nanostructures with high mechanical properties, permeability, and electrical conductivity primarily made of carbon-based materials, as carbon nanotubes (CNTs), graphene sheets, or nanoplatelets. In this context, many nanoscaled structural elements such as nanobeams, nanoplates, and nanoshells are largely adopted as key components in different modern engineering devices, such as sensors, actuators, nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS), transistors, probes, among others. The complicated nature of these structural systems requires a proper investigation of their fundamental properties on a small scale, especially from a theoretical and computational standpoint. In line with the experimental findings, classical continuum theories are incapable of providing a realist description of the physical and mechanical properties for small-scale structures due to their size-dependence, whereas nonlocal approaches are more prone to explore such nonlocal aspects for most static, dynamic, and fracture mechanics problems. Advanced theories and high-performance computational models for the statics or dynamics of nano-systems are welcomed, as well as those concerning the development of enhanced non-local damage and fracturing problems which are able to capture the formation and propagation of the internal cracks related to the heterogeneity of complex materials and interfaces.
Dr. Rossana Dimitri
Dr. Francesco Tornabene
Dr. Matteo Viscoti
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- adhesion
- advanced computational methods
- complex materials
- composite nanobeams, nanoplates and nanoshells
- delamination
- high-performance computational methods
- nano engineering
- nonlocal theories
- fracture mechanics
- size effects
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