Special Issue:“ISNNM 2024 - Integrated Computer Simulation for Materials and Process Engineering”

The editorial committee of Materials Transactions is planning to publish a special issue on “ISNNM 2024 - Integrated Computer Simulation for Materials and Process Engineering” as July 2025.
The committee would like to invite many contributions of original articles from around the globe for this special issue.

Objective and topics of coverage are as follows:
From new materials development to commercialization, the most time/cost-consuming step is the migration of a process from the lab-scale to the pilot plant or commercial scale. Despite decades-long endeavors to describe material behavior during manufacturing processes, simulations of nano-meso-macro scale “microstructural evolution” of materials under various processing circumstances have less been attended than continuum mechanics modeling to describe circumstances experienced by the materials. This special issue will address recent advances in scale-bridging simulations and characterization to understand, describe, and predict the microstructure-property relationship of newly developed materials in a lab to industrial-level processes. In general, multiple physical phenomena simultaneously take place during manufacturing, such as heat transfer, fluid flow, phase transformation, microstructural evolution, such as grain refinement, and elastic/plastic deformations under static and dynamic loadings, e.g., nanoindentation, severe plastic deformation, superplasticity, shock, metal 3d printing, etc. Hence, integration of multi-physics material simulation models of multiple length scales is essential to capture the process-structures-properties relations of materials during manufacturing. This special issue will bring together detailed analysis, characterization as well as computational modeling of materials from atomistic to macroscopic length scales. This special issue will also cover process optimization techniques such as artificial intelligence (AI), response surface methodology (RSM), and design of experiments (DOE).

Topics:
Density-Function Theory, Molecular Dynamics, Dislocation Dynamics, Phase Field Modeling, Crystal Plasticity, Finite Element Simulation, Multi-scale Materials Modeling, Multi-scale Materials Characterization, Process-structure-property Relationship, Design of Experiments, Metal Processing(Severe plastic deformation, Superplasticity, Metal 3D printing, Thermo-mechanical processing), Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, Applications in Structural, Energy, and Smart/IT Systems

Manuscripts due: January 6, 2025 *The due date has been extended

Editorial Committee of Materials Transactions
1-14-32, Ichibancho, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8544, Japan
Submission: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/matertrans
E-mail: sadoku[at]jimm.jp