Advances in Fracture and Failure of Polymers

A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Physics and Theory".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 12

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Department of Electromechanical Systems and Metal Engineering, Soete Laboratory, Ghent University Technologiepark 46, Ghent, Belgium
Interests: mechanical engineering; numerical modelling; hydrogen embrittlement; fracture mechanics; fatigue; damage mechanics
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue on the fracture and failure of polymers aims to disseminate high-quality research in this area. Polymers are advanced materials with numerous applications and they are present in almost every aspect of our daily life. Therefore, to make the most of polymeric materials, technological advances must converge with chemical, physical, digital, and biological sciences.

The progress made in understanding the fracture, fatigue, and failure behavior of polymers and polymer composites has become the key to designing advanced material structures. This has created a demand for the development of new mathematical and physical models, new computational methods, and new experimental protocols, which will be used to characterize the mechanical and physical properties of polymers. At the same time, the application of these methods and models to various practical application scenarios has become important to overcome the shortcomings in the design of polymer composite structures.

Both original contributions and comprehensive reviews are welcome in this Special Issue “Advances in Fracture and Failure of Polymers”. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Mechanical and physical characterization of polymers;
  • Fracture, failure, fatigue, and damage of polymers
  • Material manufacturing and forming: additive manufacturing, injection molding, molding, extrusion, etc.;
  • Material testing methods: tension, compression, impact, cycle, creep, etc.;
  • Numerical modelling: finite element methods, meshless methods;
  • Experimental techniques.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Behzad Vasheghani Farahani
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • mechanical properties
  • fracture, failure, fatigue and damage of polymers
  • material manufacturing and forming
  • material testing methods
  • numerical modelling
  • experimental techniques

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