Events

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...

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...