Advanced Engineering Materials and Modeling

Advanced Engineering Materials and Modeling

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

Ashutosh Tiwari is Chairman and Managing Director of Tekidag AB; Group Leader, Advanced Materials and Biodevices at the world premier Biosensors and Bioelectronics Centre at IFM, Linköping University; Editor-in-Chief, Advanced Materials Letters and Advanced Materials Reviews; Secretary General, International Association of Advanced Materials; a materials chemist and docent in the Applied Physics with the specialization of Biosensors and Bioelectronics from Linköping University, Sweden. He has more than 400 publications in the field of materials science and nanotechnology with h-index of 30 and has edited/authored over 25 books on advanced materials and technology.

N. Arul Murugan is currently a Docent at the Division of Theoretical Chemistry and Biology, School of Biotechnology, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) as well as an adjunct professor at VIT University, Vellore, India. He obtained his PhD from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 2005. He has published more than 70 papers in international high impact journals. His current research is mostly devoted to understanding the structure, dynamics, and properties of molecular probes for medical diagnosis application, and in developing integrated computational approaches for modeling electronic and magnetic properties of diagnostic agents.

Rajeev Ahuja is a Professor of Material Theory at Uppsala University, Sweden and heads a research group of 20 theoretical physicists. He obtained his Master& PhD degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee in 1986 & 1991 respectively. He is one of the most highly cited researchers in Sweden under 50 and has published more than 675 scientific papers in peer reviewed journals. Ahuja has been awarded the Wallmark prize for 2011 from KVA (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences), and has previously received the Eder Lilly and Sven Thureus prize and the Benzelius prize from Royal Research Society in Uppsala. Ahuja is an elected member of the Royal Research Society in Uppsala & he is on the executive board of the International Association for the Advancement of High Pressure Science and Technology (AIRAPT).