Brittle Fracture and Plastic Slip in Materials: from the Atomistic to the Engineering Scale
Invited Lecturers
- Lyderic Bocquet (Universite' de Lyon I, Villeurbanne, France)
- 5 Lectures on: Rheology of glassy materials and molecular materials. Experimental and theoretical progress in the description and understanding of flows in glassy materials exhibiting strongly non-Newtonian and solid-like behavior; occurrence of shear bands.
- Fabrizio Cleri (Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq cedex, France)
- 5 Lectures on: Simulation of extended defects in materials at all length scales. Structural and topological characterization of extended defects in materials. Theoretical description (atomistic simulations, coarse-grained and mesoscopic models) of the behavior of a population of defects: defect-defect interaction , and microstructure evolution.
- Luciano Colombo (Univ. d. Studi di Cagliari, Monserrato (CA), Italy)
- 5 Lectures on: Atomistic simulations for materials mechanics. Basic concepts and algorithms underlying atomistic simulations. Numerical implementation. Border conditions. Interatomic potentials. Atomic-scale formulation of continuum concepts.
- Antonio De Simone (SISSA, Trieste, Italy)
- 5 Lectures on: Continuum plasticity: a primer on plastic flow and shear bands. Continuum description of strain and stress. Constitutive equations. Yield surfaces and flow rules. Strain localization and shear banding.
- Michael Falk (The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA)
- 5 Lectures on: Using atomic-scale simulation for investigating plasticity and failure in non-crystalline solids. Development of constitutive models for plastic deformation and failure in amorphous solids using molecular dynamics simulation. Data analysis and relationship between structure and strain rate. Constitutive laws based on the shear transformation zone.
- Ellad B. Tadmor (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA)
- 5 Lectures on: Coupling atoms to continuum: The quasicontinuum method. Introduction to the theory and the practical issues underlying quasi-continuum (QC) simulations. QC is a multiscale method based on the idea of representative atoms and finite element interpolation.
- Sidney Yip (Mass. Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA)
- 5 Lectures on: Delivering on the promise of computational materials. Computational materials research through the linking of models. Simulation methods across length and time scale. Challenges of molecular modeling of technological processes.