Improving the Performance of Composite and Hybrid Material Structures: Exploration of Damage Behavior and Innovative Approaches
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2024 | Viewed by 45
Special Issue Editors
Interests: composite materials; damage tolerance; delamination; buckling; fracture mechanics; fatigue; crack bridging
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Interests: composite materials; FEM; additive manufacturing; metallic structures
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Composite structures represent a synergy of different components, combining distinctive properties that offer superior strength and lightweight compared to conventional materials. In the industrial scenario, our aim is to understand to what extent structures can be optimized to deal with operational stresses while ensuring high performance and durability. A crucial aspect is the adoption of a damage-tolerant design approach. Indeed, accounting for potential damages is essential to ensuring the safety and duration of structures, especially in challenging operational environments.
This Special Issue aims to explore innovative methodologies and strategies that enable composite structures to maintain their structural integrity despite damages. Accurate experiments and advanced computational methodologies are crucial in the process of verifying damage propagation. Impacts, operating loads and fatigue are inevitable phenomena in the industrial environment, and understanding how these variables affect the performance of structures is critical to developing resilient and reliable solutions.
Dr. Angela Russo
Dr. Andrea Sellitto
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- composite materials
- damage tolerant design
- damage propagation
- fatigue
- lightweighting
- computational methodologies
- experimental tests
