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 beams
- Nanocrystalline metal carbides - microstructure characterization
- SMA-reinforced laminated glass panel
- Sustainable sugarcane bagasse cellulose for papermaking
- Electrospun scaffolds for cardiac tissue engineering
- Bio-inspired composites
- Density functional theory for studying extended systems
- First principles based approaches for modeling materials
- Computer aided materials design
- Computational materials for stochastic electromagnets
- Computational methods for thermal analysis of heterogeneous materials
- Modelling of resistive bilayer structures
- Modeling tunneling of superluminal photons through Brain Microtubules
- Computer aided surgical workflow modeling
- Displaced multiwavelets and splitting algorithms