Events

We are pleased to announce that Wuyang Zhao has received a Procope Mobility grant provided by the Embassy of France in Germany to support his visit to Sylvain Patinet at the Physics and Mechanics of Heterogeneous Media (PMMH) Laboratory at the école supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles ...

We are delighted to announce the publication of "Modeling steady state rate-and temperature-dependent strain hardening behavior of glassy polymers" in Mechanics of Materials. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechmat.2024.105044 This paper discusses the physical origin of rate- and temperature-depende...

In this latest paper, we evaluate the impact of the molar mass distribution on the mechanical behavior of polymer nanocomposites. To this end, we employ coarse-grained molecular dynamics with a Kremer–Grest bead–spring model on samples with varying average molar mass and dispersity. We observe the e...

We are pleased to announce our recent publication "Evaluating the impact of filler size and filler content on the stiffness, strength, and toughness of polymer nanocomposites using coarse-grained molecular dynamics" in Engineering Fracture Mechanics. Open-access link to the paper: https://doi.org...

Sinan Keten from Northwestern University (Evanston, IL, USA) gave an insightful talk on "Molecular investigations of fracture in polymer and nanoparticle networks". In the first part, he elaborated on his group's systematic coarse-graining approach applied to various polymers . Their objective is to...

This talk entitled “Amorphous plasticity at the mesoscale: Development of a shear transformation zone-based numerical model” was given by Frederik van Loock from Eindhoven University of Technology within the 2nd Capriccio Special Seminar. Frederik first gave insights into the shear transformation zo...

Franz Bamer was our speaker for the 5th session of the Capriccio Special Seminar 2024. In his talk on "Mechanics of glasses," he gave a thorough overview of his group's research efforts tackling the complex behavior of 2D glasses. He explained how they exploit topological flip transformations (Stone...

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...