Moving Beyond the Ideas: Design, Modeling and Simulation to Engineer Products With Tailored Properties

Dear Colleagues,

Design is the main creative activity of engineering, and polymer-based materials have become popular in different fields.

The design of devices with complex architectural features and tailored functional properties is possible using innovative and creative engineering methods to generate all possible design configurations, meeting design requirements and constraints.

Conceptual design may be considered as the first phase of design. This phase provides a description of the proposed device in terms of a set of integrated ideas and concepts about its structure, function, and behavior.

In this scenario, finite element analysis (FEA) plays an important role and represents the core of mechanical engineering as well as of different disciplines.

Using a numerical technique, which is generally referred to as finite element method (FEM), FEA allows simulating physical phenomena.

It is through the combination of design, modeling, and simulation strategies that the present Special Issue is aimed at presenting methods to engineer advanced devices for different kinds of applications.

Accordingly, in the current Special Issue, we invite authors to submit papers with the aim of providing a complete view of the current progresses.

With a focus on polymer-based materials, potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Design methods
• Conceptual design
• Creative design
• Design of experiments
• Design for additive manufacturing
• 3D/4D Printing
• Manufacturing process
• Lattice structures
• Lightweight structures
• Biomimetics and bioinspiration
• Topology optimization
• Computational design
• Artificial intelligence methods
• Computer-aided design
• Computer-aided engineering
• Reverse engineering
• Finite element analysis
• Modeling and simulation
• Scaffold design for tissue engineering
• Prosthesis design
• Design of advanced devices

Prof. Dr. Antonio Gloria
Prof. Dr. Roberto De Santis
Guest Editors

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