Multi-Scale Modeling of Microstructures and Composite Materials

Dear Colleagues,

During the last two decades, much research has focused on improving the modeling of materials and structures, creating models that are based upon microstructure more accurate and efficient. For this purpose, many approaches and algorithms have been developed. The development process covers various stages: interpreting X-ray tomography and other imaging; describing microstructures numerically and stochastically; determining interactions among fibers, granules, components, or species; determining the effect of fabrication or deposition on the microstructure; developing continuum and discrete modeling techniques and algorithms that incorporate microstructure; analyzing degradation and failure at multiple scales; and determining loading during a material’s lifetime. The results of this work have found many applications in computer-assisted areas of everyday life. They improve particular activities, provide useful tools, and quite often significantly improve our safety and productivity. The practical implementation of models and algorithms is particularly wide. Moreover, the rapid growth of computational complexity and computer efficiency has allowed the development of more sophisticated and effective algorithms and tools. Although significant progress has been made so far, many issues still remain open, resulting in the need for novel approaches and refinements.

The aim of this Special Issue on “Multiscale Modeling of Microstructures and Composite Materials” is to offer researchers the opportunity to share new trends, the latest achievements, and research directions, as well as to present their current work on the important problem of materials modeling.

Potential topics of interest for this Special Issue include (but are not limited to) the following areas:

• Finite element and continuum methods
• Molecular dynamics modeling
• Coarse grain modeling
• Discrete granular modeling
• Coupling techniques
• Multiscale analysis of composite structures
• Multiscale analysis of metallic material
• Multiscale analysis of biomaterials
• Multiphysics analysis of composite structures
• Multiphysics analysis of biomechanics
• Multiphysics analysis in soil mechanics
• Stiffness, degradation, and failure analyses

Prof. Dr. Ali Daouadji
Prof. Dr. Matthew R. Kuhn
Dr. Salim Belouettar
Guest Editors

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• materials
• homogenization
• coupling of algorithms
• discrete and granular materials
• composites
• biomaterials
• matrix and reinforcement
• failure
• uncertainty
• imaging
• materials processing