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The Capriccio group focuses on multiscale simulations of polymers and develops the Capriccio method, which implements a partitioned-domain coupling between a continuum and particle-based regions. Employing this novel technique and considering scale-bridging approaches of other groups, our particular interest is integrating processes at the atomistic and molecular scale into typical engineering scales. To this end, we investigate how molecular processes and macroscopic properties are linked to each other and how this knowledge can improve the performance of materials and structures.
From 05 to 07 January, Sebastian Pfaller met Denise Hellmuth (University of Bayreuth), Agustín Ríos (Université Lyon 1), and Fabrice Detrez (Université Gustave Eiffel) in Lyon for a BIO ART strategy meeting. First of all, we congratulated Agustín for being appointed Professor at Université Lyon 1 ve...
The PULS group and the Capriccio group concluded the year by their semi-annual meeting within the research training group "FRASCAL". After a joint lunch with preparatory, informal discussions, Eva Maria Richter, Lukas Laubert, Felix Weber, and György Hantal presented their research activities and fi...
On November 20, 2025, the 4th Frascal Symposium (research training group "Fracture across Scales") was organised in the beautiful "Orangerie" located in the palace garden in Erlangen. Wuyang Zhao gave a talk entitled "Microscopic mechanisms of plasticity and fracture in glassy polymers" as an invite...
From September 27th to November 8th, Eva Maria Richter completed a six-week research stay with the group of Assistant Professor Frederik van Loock, which is embedded within the Processing and Performance (P&P) of Materials group at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Eindhoven University...
From July 20th to 24th, Lukas Laubert attended the 18th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM18), held in Chicago, USA. This major international conference brought together leading experts in computational mechanics from academia and industry, offering an excellent platform to ex...
The Capriccio group vividly participated with three events at the "Long Night of Sciences" held on 25 October 2025 throughout Nuremberg, Fürth, and Erlangen:
First, our group member Eva Maria Richter dicussed with Prof. Daniel Köhn from Geology the question: "What have cracks between continents t...
