Multi-Scale Modeling of Advanced Materials: Numerical Methods and Experimental Research

Dear Colleagues,

In the last decades, relevant progress has been in the area of advanced materials like composites, lightweight and high-strength alloys, shape-memory alloys, high-entropy alloys, and many more besides. The effective usage of these materials is strictly related to the understanding and the development of advanced constitutive models to adequately describe the mechanical behaviour of this class of materials. Areas of application include the aerospace, automotive and transportation industries, electronics, medical device, and sport industries. To set a thematic focus beyond the areas of application, we are specifically looking for contributions on:

• Novel and multiscale numerical methods for the prediction, analysis, and design of the mechanical properties, including computational damage and fracture mechanics.
• Theoretical and fundamental insights into the microstructure–property relationships for this advanced class of materials.
• Understanding the manufacturing processes, deformation mechanisms, and mechanical/failure responses of advanced materials.
• Theoretical and experimental investigations of the connection between the manufacturing processes and the physical mechanisms of the interactions between plasticity, damage, and fracturing, among other defects.
• Advanced numerical and experimental methods for studying the microstructure, process, full-field measurements across different length scales, and various microscopic visualization methods.

Moreover, the focal topics listed above are not meant to exclude articles from additional areas. Similarly, we do not intend to limit the Special Issue’s focus on consolidated manufacturing processes or classical numerical methods, although it can be extended to emerging areas such as the additive manufacturing and intelligent manufacturing of advanced and designed materials or to computational thermodynamics in material modelling.

Dr. Stefano Valvano
Prof. Dr. Angelo Maligno
Guest Editors

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• multiscale modelling
• multifield problems
• nano- and microstructure characterization
• homogenized properties
• numerical methods
• damage and fracture
• experimental testing