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We are delighted to announce that Wuyang Zhao received a DFG individual research grant for his project "Investigating brittle-to-ductile transition in glassy polymers by multiscale modeling across atomistic and continuum scales". In this project, he will investigate the mechanisms of toughness in gl...

Felix Weber visited Dr. Maxime Vassaux at the Institut de Physique de Rennes (IPR) for five weeks. During this research visit, Maxime and Felix discussed and performed multiscale fracture simulations of silica glass using the Capriccio method. The focus was on analyzing the structural (e.g., radial/...

The Capriccio group had the pleasure to host Samit Roy from The University of Alabama, who is William D. Jordan Professor and very active in the field of fracture simulations across multiple length and time scales. Within our seminar, he gave a talk on "Predicting Fracture Toughness in Polymers usin...

We gladly announce the guest lecture "Introduction on Polymers – From their synthesis to their applications", which will be given from December 9th to December 13th, 2024 by our colleague Prof. Agustín Ríos de Anda (Maître de Conférences en Chimie) from the Institut de Chimie et des Máteriaux Paris-...

It is our great pleasure to announce Maximilian Ries as winner of the ECCOMAS award for the best PhD theses 2023. The European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS) grants this prestigious prize annually to two young researchers for their outstanding works in the field of ...

We are delighted to announce the publication of "Investigating fracture mechanisms in glassy polymers using coupled particle-continuum simulations" in Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2024.105884 Using the Capriccio method, coupling molecular dynam...

From July 31 to August 2, we met for our annual Capriccio mini retreat. This time, it was dedicated to a sophisticated review and further improvements of the Capriccio method. The first day was reserved for a summary of our current research activities and to an overview of the current state of the ...

The annual Capriccio Junior Party took place on July 25. This event brings together students (post)doctoral researchers of the Capriccio group. Most important, it is a great opportunity to thank the students for their highly valuable contributions to the group's scientific endeavors. Over a deliciou...

David Richard presented a talk entitled “Bridging necking and shear-banding mediated tensile failure in glasses” that closed the 2nd Capriccio Special Seminar. He started with experimental observations that metallic glasses exhibit a failure mode transition from necking to shear-banding with decreas...

Sankha Aditya from the Polymers and Soft Materials Research Center at the University of Alabama demonstrated the capabilities of an extended version of the Capriccio method by means of multiscale simulations of various kinds of materials. In his talk "On correctly modeling brittle fracture using cou...