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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...

Felix and Sebastian organised together with Fabrice Detrez (Paris), Andrea Giuntoli (Groningen), Matej Praprotnik (Ljubljana), and Maxime Vassaux (Rennes) the symposium "Multiscale simulations of polymers and polymer composites" at the 11th International Conference on Multiscale Materials Modeling (...

We congratulate Johannes Roksvaag for successfully finishing his Bachelor's thesis titled "Improving the Performance of the Capriccio Method by Migrating to the Open-Source Programming Language Julia". Johannes migrated the Capriccio method, which couples molecular dynamics domains to finite elemen...

We are delighted to announce that Wuyang Zhao received a DFG individual research grant for his project "Investigating brittle-to-ductile transition in glassy polymers by multiscale modeling across atomistic and continuum scales". In this project, he will investigate the mechanisms of toughness in gl...

Felix Weber visited Dr. Maxime Vassaux at the Institut de Physique de Rennes (IPR) for five weeks. During this research visit, Maxime and Felix discussed and performed multiscale fracture simulations of silica glass using the Capriccio method. The focus was on analyzing the structural (e.g., radial/...

The Capriccio group had the pleasure to host Samit Roy from The University of Alabama, who is William D. Jordan Professor and very active in the field of fracture simulations across multiple length and time scales. Within our seminar, he gave a talk on "Predicting Fracture Toughness in Polymers usin...

We gladly announce the guest lecture "Introduction on Polymers – From their synthesis to their applications", which will be given from December 9th to December 13th, 2024 by our colleague Prof. Agustín Ríos de Anda (Maître de Conférences en Chimie) from the Institut de Chimie et des Máteriaux Paris-...