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The third presentation in the 2nd Capriccio Special Seminar was held by Tobias Laschütza from Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) on “Studying cyclic mode I crack growth with a molecular dynamics informed continuum micromechanical crazing model”. Tobias first provided some background informati...

The fourth talk in the 2nd Capriccio Special Seminar was given by Eran Bouchbinder from Weizmann Institute of Science titled "The key roles played by quenched disorder in resolving 3D fracture puzzles." In his talk, Eran Bouchbinder started with the exciting achievements in 2D dynamical fracture to ...

We are delighted to announce the publication of "Revealing the percolation–agglomeration transition in polymer nanocomposites via MD-informed continuum RVEs with elastoplastic interphases " in Composites Part B: Engineering https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesb.2024.111477 This contribution bu...

During the 2nd Capriccio Special Seminar, Michael Falk from Johns Hopkins University presented a talk titled "Simulation-informed models for amorphous metal additive manufacturing." In his talk, Falk provided an overview of the amorphous metal additive manufacturing (AM2) technique and discussed its...

The 2nd Capriccio Special Seminar was initiated by the talk given by Sylvain Patinet on Thursday, April 26th. During the talk "Numerical modeling of plasticity in amorphous solids", Sylvain presented a method encoding the global plastic activity in glasses using local yield stresses . Using this met...

Welcome to the Capriccio Special Seminar 2024! In the 2nd Capriccio Special Seminar (CSS), we aim to establish a link between experimental observations and numerical analyses focusing on the physics of fracture in glassy materials, including inorganic and polymeric glasses as well as polymer comp...

Our paper "Time-temperature correlations of amorphous thermoplastics at large strains based on molecular dynamics simulations" has been published in Mechanics of Materials. Through molecular dynamics simulations, this paper illustrates the effects of time and temperature on amorphous polymers at lar...

We congratulate Jakob Seibert for publishing the results of his Bachelor's thesis in a peer-reviewed paper in Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids. In his publication, "Investigation of the influence of nano-sized particles on the entanglement distribution of a generic polymer nanocomposite using mol...

We congratulate Vincent Dötschel on his first publication, "Studying the mechanical behavior of a generic thermoplastic by means of a fast coarse-grained molecular dynamics model." This contribution presents the methodology and tools to generate and analyze molecular dynamics samples of an efficient...