Submission Deadline: 30 June 2024 Submit to Special Issue
Structural optimization is a multidisciplinary engineering process that aims to design and modify structures to achieve specific objectives while minimizing material usage, weight and other resources. It plays a crucial role in various fields, such as aerospace, mechanical engineering and materials science, enabling more efficient design of high-performance structures. On the other hand, metamaterials are artificial materials engineered to exhibit unconventional electromagnetic, thermal, acoustic, photonic, or mechanical properties that are not found in nature, offering innovative solutions to manipulate and control waves in ways previously considered impossible. The unconventional properties of metamaterials deviate from their specified structure, and structural optimization is a fundamental step in designing metamaterials because it allows for the precise control and tailoring of structural properties to meet specific requirements of functionalities while achieving the customization.
Structural optimization ensures that metamaterials can unlock their full potential and offer groundbreaking solutions in a wide range of fields. This special issue discusses highly efficient and advanced numerical analysis to solve various physics problems, the advanced structural optimization methods for different length scales ranging from nano to macro level, and their applications in designing different metamaterials. Contributed articles are sought in the following areas (not limited):
1. Advanced finite element analysis methods
2. Advanced iso-geometric analysis methods
3. Advanced homogenization techniques
4. High-efficient multiscale analysis methods
5. Artificial-Intelligence-enabled structural optimization methods
6. Iso-geometric structural optimization methods
7. Multiscale structural optimization methods
8. Advanced structural optimization methods for metamaterials, including electromagnetic, thermal, mechanical, acoustic and multiphysics metamaterials
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