Advanced engineering materials and modeling

The engineering of materials with advanced features is driving the research towards the design of innovative materials with high performances.

New materials often deliver the best solution for structural applications, precisely contributing towards the finest combination of mechanical properties and low weight.

The mimicking of nature's principles lead to a new class of structural materials including biomimetic composites, natural hierarchical materials and smart materials.

Meanwhile, computational modeling approaches are the valuable tools complementary to experimental techniques and provide significant information at the microscopic level and explain the properties of materials and their very existence.

The modeling also provides useful insights to possible strategies to design and fabricate materials with novel and improved properties.

The book brings together these two fascinating areas and offers a comprehensive view of cutting-edge research on materials interfaces and technologies the engineering materials.

The topics covered in this book are divided into 2 parts: Engineering of Materials, Characterizations & Applications and Computational Modeling of Materials.

The chapters include the following: Mechanical and resistance behavior of structural glass beamsNanocrystalline metal carbides - microstructure characterizationSMA-reinforced laminated glass panelSustainable sugarcane bagasse cellulose for papermakingElectrospun scaffolds for cardiac tissue engineeringBio-inspired compositesDensity functional theory for studying extended systemsFirst principles based approaches for modeling materialsComputer aided materials designComputational materials for stochastic electromagnetsComputational methods for thermal analysis of heterogeneous materialsModelling of resistive bilayer structuresModeling tunneling of superluminal photons through Brain MicrotubulesComputer aided surgical workflow modelingDisplaced multiwavelets and splitting algorithms