Plenary Lecture at KomPlasTech 2025
Sebastian Pfaller gave a plenary lecture on “Numerical predictions of fracture in amorphous materials: Current achievements and challenges” at the XXIX Conference on Computer Methods in Material Technology (KomPlasTech 2025) in Krynica Zdrój, Poland, upon invitation by the Department of Applied Computer Science and Modelling at AGH University of Kraków. In his lecture, Sebastian revisited the foundations of the Capriccio method and gave an overview of current achievements of Felix Weber’s multiscale fracture simulations of silica glass. After this, he focused on challenges faced by Wuyang Zhao and Eva Richter when it comes to associated simulations of polymers, particularly due to the much larger processing zone size of these materials. During the conference, Sebastian had many very insightful discussions with Polish and international colleagues, which put different foci on material simulation across scales and provided links to experimental evidence. After the conference, Sebastian visited the Industrial Digitalization and Multiscale Modeling Group at the Department of Applied Computer Science and Modelling at AGH University of Krakow, where he was warmly welcomed by prof. dr hab. inż. Łukasz Madej and dr inż. Konrad Perzyński. Sebastian thanks the organisers very much for giving him this opportunity to present the research of the Capriccio group and for the very friendly welcome at KomPlasTech and at AGH Kraków!