Structure, Design and Mechanism of Flight Composite Materials

Submission Deadline: 30 June 2026 View: 512 Submit to Special Issue

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Assoc. Prof. Dr. Deng'an Cai

Email: cda@nuaa.edu.cn

Affiliation: College of Aerospace Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control for Aerospace Structures, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China

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Research Interests: Design of advanced composite structures; Fatigue and fracture of structures; Stability of structures; Mechanics of composites and structures; Finite element analysis; Polymer matrix composites; Damage and fracture; Damage resistance and tolerance; Fatigue analysis; Vibration analysis; Impact analysis; Multiscale analysis; Experimental mechanics

Summary

Composite materials have garnered significant attention in various industries due to their lightweight nature, high specific stiffness and strength, and tailored mechanical properties. There are many issues that need to be addressed in the analysis and application of aircraft structure design, such as manufacturing processes, deformation, failure, fracture and life problems, etc.

The Special Issue aims to provide an overview of the latest innovations related to structure, design and mechanism of flight composite materials. Contributions range from new theories and formulations to analyses and novel applications. Emphasis is placed on design and mechanics aspects at the flight composite materials and structures. The Issue focuses on experimental, numerical, and analytical studies on different aspects of flight composite materials and their applications.

This Special Issue is devoted to original research and review papers on key topics related to flight composite materials and structures. Topics of interest include but are not limited to design of new composite materials and structures (metamaterial, toughening composites, electromagnetic shielding and electro-thermal functional composites, etc.), standard and non-standard experimental methodologies (tensile, compressive, bending, shear, delamination, impact, fatigue, crash, vibration, etc.), study on mechanism, fracture and damage (damage characterisation and modelling), applications of numerical techniques for advanced modelling, multiscale modelling, structural optimisation methods for lightweight design of flight composite structures.

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