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We are pleased to announce our recent publication "Evaluating the impact of filler size and filler content on the stiffness, strength, and toughness of polymer nanocomposites using coarse-grained molecular dynamics" in Engineering Fracture Mechanics. Open-access link to the paper: https://doi.org...

Sinan Keten from Northwestern University (Evanston, IL, USA) gave an insightful talk on "Molecular investigations of fracture in polymer and nanoparticle networks". In the first part, he elaborated on his group's systematic coarse-graining approach applied to various polymers . Their objective is to...

This talk entitled “Amorphous plasticity at the mesoscale: Development of a shear transformation zone-based numerical model” was given by Frederik van Loock from Eindhoven University of Technology within the 2nd Capriccio Special Seminar. Frederik first gave insights into the shear transformation zo...

Franz Bamer was our speaker for the 5th session of the Capriccio Special Seminar 2024. In his talk on "Mechanics of glasses," he gave a thorough overview of his group's research efforts tackling the complex behavior of 2D glasses. He explained how they exploit topological flip transformations (Stone...

The third presentation in the 2nd Capriccio Special Seminar was held by Tobias Laschütza from Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) on “Studying cyclic mode I crack growth with a molecular dynamics informed continuum micromechanical crazing model”. Tobias first provided some background informati...

The fourth talk in the 2nd Capriccio Special Seminar was given by Eran Bouchbinder from Weizmann Institute of Science titled "The key roles played by quenched disorder in resolving 3D fracture puzzles." In his talk, Eran Bouchbinder started with the exciting achievements in 2D dynamical fracture to ...

We are delighted to announce the publication of "Revealing the percolation–agglomeration transition in polymer nanocomposites via MD-informed continuum RVEs with elastoplastic interphases " in Composites Part B: Engineering https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesb.2024.111477 This contribution bu...

During the 2nd Capriccio Special Seminar, Michael Falk from Johns Hopkins University presented a talk titled "Simulation-informed models for amorphous metal additive manufacturing." In his talk, Falk provided an overview of the amorphous metal additive manufacturing (AM2) technique and discussed its...

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...