Submission Deadline: 30 September 2026 View: 9 Submit to Special Issue
Dr. Guohua Zhu
Email: guohuazhu@chd.edu.cn
Affiliation: School of Automobile, Chang'an University, Xi'an, 710064, China
Research Interests: automotive lightweight design and manufacturing, intelligent materials and structural design methodologies, structural health monitoring of composite materials
Dr. Xi-Ao Cao
Email: xiaocao@chd.edu.cn
Affiliation: School of Automobile, Chang'an University, Xi'an, 710064, China
Research Interests: lightweight materials and structures for automobiles, multiscale mechanics of composite materials, integrated structure–function design, development of advanced components for new energy vehicles
Dr. Zhen Wang
Email: zhenwang_chd@chd.edu.cn
Affiliation: School of Automobile, Chang'an University, Xi'an, 710064, China
Research Interests: intelligent manufacturing technologies for lightweight materials; advanced joining technologies for lightweight sheets; structural performance evaluation and optimization for composites; data-driven "material–process–structure" integrated design methods
With the rapid advancement in aerospace, new energy vehicles, and advanced equipment fields, the performance requirements for engineering components have transcended traditional single mechanical indicators, shifting toward the deep integration of lightweighting, high reliability, and intelligent functionality. Composite materials, with their outstanding design flexibility, provide an ideal platform for realizing integrated "material-structure-function" design. However, this cross-scale, multi-objective collaborative design paradigm faces significant challenges, particularly in computer modeling and simulation of complex mechanisms. An urgent need exists for new theories, methods, and tools that integrate advanced computational approaches.
This special issue aims to establish a high-level academic platform for sharing pioneering ideas and recent advances in computational approaches for integrated design. It seeks to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and systematically address core challenges in modeling, simulation, optimization, and experimental validation of composite components. The issue will provide advanced data, models, methods, and tools to support the development of high-performance, reliable, and intelligent next-generation composites. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
· Multiscale and Multiphysics Computer Modeling Frameworks
· Data-Driven and AI-Assisted Reverse Design of Materials and Structures
· Structure-Function Integrated Modeling and Simulation
· Integrated Design-Manufacturing Modeling and Simulation
· Uncertainty Quantification, Reliability Modeling, and Robust Optimization in Integrated Design
· Digital Twin Construction and Full Lifecycle Performance Management for Composite Materials
· Integrated Design Approach for Sustainable and Recyclable Composite Materials
· Modeling, Simulation, and Control of Smart Composites and Adaptive Structures
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