The present review aims at gathering the available literature on damping in composite
materials. A chronological review of test methods for damping estimation is presented in …

The use of composite materials in several sectors, such as aeronautics and automotive, has
been gaining distinction in recent years. However, due to their high costs, as well as unique …

Tough natural materials such as nacre, bone, and silk exhibit multiscale hierarchical
structures where distinct toughening mechanisms occur at each level of the hierarchy …

Soil-rock mixtures (SRMs) are the main unfavorable geologic bodies in Southwest China.
This paper presents a novel mesoscale computational modeling study of SRMs with …

Presenting a wealth of completely revised examples and new information, Introduction to
Composite Materials Design, Second Edition greatly improves on the bestselling first edition …

Purpose The purpose of the paper is to propose a homogenization-based topology
optimization method to optimize the design of variable-density cellular structure, in order to …

This paper presents the application of a new constitutive damage model for an epoxy matrix
on micromechanical analyses of polymer composite materials. Different representative …

Dental implants are mostly fabricated of titanium. Potential problems associated with these
implants are discussed in the literature, for example, overloading of the jawbone during …

This work proposes a theoretical/numerical framework for the topology optimisation of
anisotropic architected cellular materials at different scales. In particular, the topological …

A general framework for the multi-scale topology optimisation (TO) of lattice structures (LSs)
is presented in this work. The proposed method involves: Non-Uniform Rational Basis …