Advances in Nanocomposites

Shaker Meguid is Professor ofMechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto. He obtainedhis Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics from UMIST and taught Applied Mechanics atOxford University, Cranfield University (England), University of Toronto, CairoUniversity (Egypt) and Nanyang Technolog.ical University (NTU-Singapore). Hisresearch activities include computational mechanics, nanoengineering, advancedand smart composites, fracture mechanics and failure prevention. He has publishedover 400 papers and is founding Editor-in-Chief of Int. J of Mechanics andMaterials in Design.

• Multiscale modeling of nanoreinforced composites.- Piezoelectric response at nanoscale.- Nanoscale mechanical characterization of 1D and 2D materials with application to nanocomposites.- Effects of nano porosity on the mechanical properties and applications of aerogels in composite structures.- Smart fuzzy fiber-reinforced piezoelectric composites.- Composite nanowires for room-temperature mechanical and electrical bonding.- Recent developments of multiscale thermo-mechanical analysis of nano-composites.- Magnetoelectric coupling and overall properties of a class of multiferroic composites.- Snap-through buckling of micro/nanobeams in bistable micro/nanoelectromechanical systems