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We are very happy to congratulate Lukas Laubert on receiving his master degree and to warmly welcome him as our new group member. His master thesis on "Mechanical Analysis of Bio-Sourced Epoxy: Study of Elastic, Viscous, and Plastic Properties" forms a highly important contribution for the scientifi...

From October 2 to 7, 2023, Dr. Maxime Vassaux from France visited the Capriccio group. Maxime is a CNRS Researcher at the Institute of Physics in Rennes and is planning to use the Capriccio method for multiscale FE-MD simulations of silica glass. During the week of his visit, we were able to take th...

We are delighted to announce that Wuyang Zhao successfully defended his dissertation entitled "Multiscale modeling of the fracture behavior of glassy polymers across the atomistic and continuum scale" on August 29, 2023. In his thesis, he revisits the basics of continuum mechanics, atomistic simulat...

We congratulate Annina Adams on the successful completion of her bachelor thesis titled "Advancing the Capriccio method: Parameter study with respect to load application". In her thesis, Annina complemented a recent study of equilibration simulations of molecular dynamics samples under stochastic bo...

We are delighted to announce the graduation of Dr.-Ing. Maximilian Ries. In his thesis "Characterization and modeling of polymer nanocomposites across the scales," Maximilian introduces a methodology to derive continuum mechanical models for polymer nanocomposites (PNCs) based on molecular dynamics...

On May 25, 2023, Sebastian Pfaller and Felix Weber visited the Müller-Plathe Group at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. There, we had a fruitful discussion on fracture simulations using coarse-grained molecular dynamics models.  In a first part, the general applicability of (generic) coarse-grai...

We congratulate Lukas Laubert who completed and successfully defended his project thesis on a comparison between the Capriccio method in 3d with a simplified 1d setting. Lukas set up a one-dimensional representation of a three-dimensional coupled MD-FE system and implemented a smart evaluation schem...

Welcome to the Capriccio Special Seminar 2023! We are happy to announce our first online Capriccio Seminar (CSS), in which we aim to link experimental and numerical viewpoints for the investigation of polymer materials as well as polymer composites. Recent studies on modeling, simulation, and exp...

We are happy to announce Vincent Dötschel and Jakob Seibert as new graduates of the FAU: Both received their Bachelor certificates during the commencement ceremony at the Faculty of Engineering for their theses "Untersuchung des Materialverhaltens von Poly(2-Vinylpyridin) mithilfe molekulardynamisch...

The Capriccio group is offering a doctoral researcher position for the Franco-German research project “BIO ART: Optimization of Mechanical Properties of BIO-Sourced Epoxy Resins by ARTificial Intelligence: Multiscale Modelling of Polymers”. Details can be found in the call for positions. FAU_BIOA...