International Journal of Fracture - Special Issue: Failure Mechanisms in Advanced Materials and Structures
Guest Editors:
Prof. Zengtao Chen, University of Alberta, Canada
Prof. Minghao Zhao, Zhengzhou University, China
Prof. Cunfa Gao, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
Prof. Efstathios E. Theotokoglou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Submission Status: Closed
Summary and scope
Many advanced materials and structures have emerged in recent years to meet the sophisticated demands for high strength, lower density, high ductility, high conductivity and other superior mechanical or physical properties. These materials and structures include advanced alloys of high strength-to-weight ratio, graphene and carbon nanotubes, ferroelectric ceramics, superconductors, metamaterials, quasicrystals, functionally graded materials, photovoltaic materials, biomaterials, MEMS devices and so on.
This Special Issue focuses on modelling, simulation and characterization of failure behavior of advanced materials and structures. In particular, mathematical modelling, experimental study and numerical simulation of failure behavior of advanced materials and structures under various multiphysical disturbances will be the main focus of the volume. Research papers are welcome on characterization, mathematical and computational modelling and experimental research of the failure mechanisms of various advanced materials and structures, such as biomaterials, high strength metals, functional materials, metamaterials, soft materials and composite materials under various loading conditions.
This Special Issue is by invitation only.
Submission guidelines
All papers must be prepared in accordance with the Instructions for Authors at: https://www.springer.com/journal/10704/submission-guidelines (this opens in a new tab). Authors should submit via the online submission site (this opens in a new tab) and select article type “SI - ICF15 - Failure Mechanisms”.
Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to one of the topics of the Special Issue. All papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, significance of contribution, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation by at least two reviewers. It is the policy of the journal that no submission, or substantially overlapping submission, be published or be under review at another journal or conference at any time during the review process. Final decisions on all papers are made by the Editor-in-Chief.
Meet the Guest Editors:
Zengtao Chen is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Alberta. He received his first PhD in solid mechanics from Harbin Institute of Technology in 1995 and second PhD in mechanical engineering from University of Waterloo in 2004. He has been a faculty member with Harbin Institute of Technology, Tsinghua University and University of New Brunswick prior to the current position. His research is focused on fracture mechanics, materials modelling and mechanical design. He has published three books and 270 journal papers in the related areas. He is a fellow of ASME and CSME.
MingHao Zhao received his Ph.D. degree in Engineering Mechanics from Lanzhou University, China, in 1995. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Xi’an Jiaotong University from 1995 to 1997, and as a visiting scholar at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from 1999 to 2002. He is currently a Professor in School of Mechanics and Safety Engineering & School of Mechanical and Power Engineering at Zhengzhou University, China. His research is focused on fatigue and fracture mechanics, testing techniques of low-dimensional materials, fracture mechanics of smart materials and structures and anti-fatigue manufacturing of metal components.
Cunfa Gao is currently a full professor in Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA). He received his Ph.D. degree in Solid Mechanics from NUAA in 1998, and then engaged in post-doctoral research in Peking University. From 2000 to 2005, he was successfully engaged in scientific research at Dresden University of Technology in Germany, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Shizuoka University in Japan. He is now a distinguished professor of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He has long been engaged in the research of soft material, electromagnetic solid material and mechanical behavior and structural thermal stress.
Efstathios Theotokoglou received his Ph.D. Degree in Computational Mechanics from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 1984. He worked as a Research and Teaching Associate in the Department of Mechanics of the National Technical University of Athens where he was then Lecturer, Assistant Professor and Associate Professor from 1985 to 2008. He is currently a Professor of Computational Mechanics in the Department of Mechanics of National Technical University of Athens. His current research is focused on Computational Mechanics, Solid Mechanics, Fracture Mechanics and Mechanics of Composite and Advanced Materials and Structures.
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