Recent advances in aircraft materials and their manufacturing technologies have enabled
progressive growth in innovative materials such as composites. Al-based, Mg-based, Ti …

BACKGROUND Surfaces that control solid, liquid, or vapor accretion have numerous
applications, including self-cleaning windows and solar panels; water and fog harvesting; …

The paper comprehensively reviews durable polylactic acid (PLA)-based engineered blends
and biocomposites supporting a low carbon economy. The traditional fossil fuel derived …

Metallic fillers have shown limited potential for developing advanced polymer substrates for
flexible electronics due to their electrical conductivity and poor interfacial interaction with …

This paper firstly presents numerical analyses of functionally graded porous plates/shells
with graphene platelets (GPLs) reinforcement using a novel four-node quadrilateral element …

Composite materials exhibit the impressive high energy consumption and impact resistance,
which cannot be attained by employing conventional single materials. Along these lines, a …

Phase‐field methods are attractive for simulating the mechanical failure of geometrically
complex porous microstructures described by 2D/3D x‐ray μ μ CT images in subsurface (eg …

This article presents a quasi-static and dynamic study of the energy absorption of aluminium
and composite foams by investigating four types of cast foams produced by different …

Pore-scale models are useful for understanding and upscaling the mechanical deformation
of fractured porous media. The highest fidelity solutions are obtained by direct numerical …

Owing to the complex structure of open-cell metal foams, skeleton structures that do not
include micropores have been widely used to represent foam structures in recent years. In …