Combined with these features is the ability to ascribe material properties at the sub-millimeter scale, inspiring multi-material, functionally graded designs.
The heterogeneous materials include composite materials, functionally graded materials, and heterogeneous materials with a periodic microstructure.
This result suggests the possibility of designing a novel class of materials: functionally graded rubber-elastic materials (FGREMs).
Based on these constituent materials, functionally graded sandwich cores are designed in a combined numerical and experimental approach.
With rapid developments of high-tech in various fields, there appear more critical requirements for special functions of components/products, which can be satisfied only by using heterogeneous materials: composite materials, functionally graded materials, or heterogeneous materials with a periodic microstructure.
This paper introduces the development of such a database, including the determination of its design requirements, the selection of its database management system, the creation of its database model, its development method, and the details of its sub-databases for composite materials, functionally gradient materials, and heterogeneous materials with a periodic microstructure, respectively.
The joint stimulation of market pressure and science pressure is generating the development of new classes of materials (e.g. new composites, nanostructured materials, functionally gradient materials) and of new synthesis or processing procedures (e.g. rapid solidification of alloys, mechanical alloying, hot isostatic pressing).
To overcome this problem, new composite materials, called "functionally graded materials" (FGMs) have been proposed in which the material properties vary continuously from one surface to the other.
Both constant-property materials and functionally graded materials were considered for the interphase.
A class of inhomogeneous materials (called functionally graded materials) has been proposed for posts to resolve the weaknesses of both flexible and rigid posts.
Preceding works on the buckling of advanced materials, e.g., functionally graded materials, under combined thermal and mechanical loads are rather rare in literature.
