Various types of complex materials, made of very different constituents of different properties, shapes, and sizes, are used nowadays in engineering practice: particle or fibrous composites; laminates; green composites with natural fillers and industrial or urban recyclable materials; nanomaterials; and architectured material. Macroscopic properties such as stiffness and strength are governed by multiphysics processes (e.g. damage due to heat transfer or fluid penetration, crack propagation under thermal shock in ceramic/metallic matrix composites) which occur over multiple scales below the level of observation. A thorough understanding of how these processes influence the reduction of stiffness and strength, is a key to the analysis of existing, and the design of improved, complex materials. This Special Collection will be centered on multiscale and multiphysics modeling of complex materials, with attention to the constitutive aspects concerning complex materials, so defined by the presence of internal structure at different scales (nano/micro/meso) and non-linear constitutive behavior (plasticity, damage, fracture, etc.).
Guest Editors:
Patrizia Trovalusci, University La Sapienza, Italy
Tomasz Sadowski, Lublin University of Technology, Poland
Adnan Ibrahimbegovic, Universite de Technologie Compiegne – Alliance Sorbonne, France
Opening date: 9/1/24
Closing date: 4/1/25
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