Smart materials and structures (SMS), such as piezoelectric, piezomagnetic, piezoelectric semiconducting and multiferroic materials and structures, electro-magneto active polymers, smart hydrogen gels, shape memory alloys, and smart metamaterials etc., have been receiving an increasing research interest and exhibit potential applications in various fields of aeronautics and astronautics, mechanical engineering, biomedicine, information technology, energy harvesting and storage, etc. They play an important role in the present and future developments of science and technology. To promote the research on the intrinsic multi-field coupling effects among the mechanical, electrical, magnetic, thermal and chemical fields in SMS and their applications, we are very pleased to organize this Research Topic “Multi-field Coupling Mechanics of Smart Materials and Structures”. The present Research Topic is focused on the recent advances and developments in multi-field coupling mechanics of SMS.
We gratefully welcome scientific contributions (Original Research and Review articles) covering a broad range of topics on multi-field coupling mechanics of SMS, including but not limited to the following :Theory of multi-field coupling mechanics from nano to macro-scales;
• Analysis of multi-field coupling behaviors of SMS from nano- to macro-scales;
• Mechanics of piezotronics, flexotronics, wearable and flexible electronics, etc.;
• Advanced computional methods for SMS;
• Experimental validation and verification of theoretical and numerical models for SMS;
• Vibration, wave propagation and crack problems in SMS;
• Modeling and applications of smart devices including sensors, actuators, and harvesters etc.;
• Applications of 3D-printing and additive manufacturing technology as well as artificial intelligence methods (machine learning, deep learning, neural networks, etc.) for SMS.
Smart materials and structures (SMS), such as piezoelectric, piezomagnetic, piezoelectric semiconducting and multiferroic materials and structures, electro-magneto active polymers, smart hydrogen gels, shape memory alloys, and smart metamaterials etc., have been receiving an increasing research interest and exhibit potential applications in various fields of aeronautics and astronautics, mechanical engineering, biomedicine, information technology, energy harvesting and storage, etc. They play an important role in the present and future developments of science and technology. To promote the research on the intrinsic multi-field coupling effects among the mechanical, electrical, magnetic, thermal and chemical fields in SMS and their applications, we are very pleased to organize this Research Topic “Multi-field Coupling Mechanics of Smart Materials and Structures”. The present Research Topic is focused on the recent advances and developments in multi-field coupling mechanics of SMS.
We gratefully welcome scientific contributions (Original Research and Review articles) covering a broad range of topics on multi-field coupling mechanics of SMS, including but not limited to the following :Theory of multi-field coupling mechanics from nano to macro-scales;
• Analysis of multi-field coupling behaviors of SMS from nano- to macro-scales;
• Mechanics of piezotronics, flexotronics, wearable and flexible electronics, etc.;
• Advanced computional methods for SMS;
• Experimental validation and verification of theoretical and numerical models for SMS;
• Vibration, wave propagation and crack problems in SMS;
• Modeling and applications of smart devices including sensors, actuators, and harvesters etc.;
• Applications of 3D-printing and additive manufacturing technology as well as artificial intelligence methods (machine learning, deep learning, neural networks, etc.) for SMS.