Submission Deadline: 28 February 2019 (closed) View: 160
The properties and applications of materials are determined by the nano/micro structures. Many important issues of structures, such as lattice mismatch, compatibility, orientation, evolution, phase transition, surfaces, interfaces, defects, domain engineering etc., are of interest and the corresponding mechanisms have not been fully understood. Thus, computational mechanics has been widely used to study such complexity in nano/micro structures in the recent decades.
In this special issue we aim to include articles that provide new insight into the theoretical calculation and modeling in nano/micro structures. The topics of the Special Issue include, but are not limited to:
1. Nano/Micro structure modeling by using finite element model, phase field model, constitutive model, molecular dynamics, ab initio model etc.
2. Nano/Micro structure evolution, such as domain wall movements, phase transition etc.
3. Nano/Micro structure engineering and applications, such as strained engineering, domain engineering etc.
4. Fractures and defects, such as voids with stress migration, failure mode etc.
5. Multi-physics and Multi-scale modeling, such as thermo-mechanical, electro-mechanical or magneto-electro-mechanical coupling problems etc.