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On March 27-28, 2025, Felix Weber attended the joint technical meeting of the Technical Committee on Numerical Methods (TC8) of the European Structural Integrity Society (ESIS) together with the DVM-Working Group Simulation in Munich. With a focus on computational modeling techniques for fracture, t...

After being a member for more than 7 years, Maximilian Ries is leaving the Capriccio group to build up a research group of his own. On that note, a short retrospective of his time with us is only appropriate: Max started his doctoral project back in early 2018 and has been a very active member wi...

We are pleased to announce the publication of "Assessing the Capriccio method via one-dimensional systems for coupled continuum-particle simulations in various uniaxial load cases using a novel interdimensional comparison approach" in Computational Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. ht...

We congratulate Aditi Sharma, who has successfully completed her programming project with the submission of her report on the subject "Implementation of a sophisticated viscoelastic-viscoplastic material model in AceGen." Her work focuses on translating a complex viscoelastic-viscoplastic material m...

We congratulate Terrence Pereira, who successfully finished his seminar with the submission of his seminar report and by giving a presentation on the subject "Review of state-of-the-art continuum mechanical material models that consider multiple physical phenomena". In his work, Terrence tackles ess...

We had the great pleasure to welcome Prof. Agustín Ríos from ICMPE (Institut de Chimie et des Matériaux Paris-Est) within the ERASMUS+ programme. Agustín Ríos gave a lecture series on polymers with particular focus on the relation between the chemistry of these materials and their properties relevan...

It is a great pleasure to welcome Eva Richter to the Capriccio team! Eva will work on her doctoral project as member of the third cohort of the research training group 2423 "Fracture across Scales" (FRASCAL). She is going to continue her exceptionally insightful work on fracture of thermoplastics...

We congratulate Vincent Dötschel for successfully finishing his project thesis titled "Revealing the Interphase in Epoxy-Based Adhesive Joints via Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics". Vincent continued the work of Eva Richter and implemented a numerically stable MD model for the investigation of an e...

We cordially congratulate Eva Richter on successfully defending her master's thesis titled “A ‘Capriccio light’ approach to study the capabilities of multiscale fracture simulations of thermoplastics”. In her thesis, Eva used pure molecular dynamics simulations of a generic thermoplastic polymer to ...

From August 26th to 30th, Lukas Laubert attended the International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM) 2024 held in Daegu, South Korea. This international event offered him a chance to connect with researchers from around the world, which was indeed a valuable opportunity for Lukas...