Speakers

Confirmed Invited Speakers to date

Amit Acharya (Carnegie Mellon University, USA).

Finite deformation mesoscale field dislocation mechanics.

Eleni Agiasofitou (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany).

Micromechanics of dislocations: a new insight into the J-, M-, and L-integrals.

Gustavo M. Castelluccio (Cranfield University, UK).

Physics-based strategies to address parameter uncertainty in crystal plasticity.

Sergio Conti (Bonn University, Germany).

Variational modeling of dislocation microstructures in crystals.

William Curtin (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland).

From DFT to ductility in Mg alloys.

Vikram Deshpande (Cambridge University, UK).

The role of interfacial diffusion in the creep of Ni superalloys.

Vikram Gavini (University of Michigan, USA).

Real-space electronic structure studies on the energetics of dislocations in Al-Mg materials system and its connection to mesoscale models.

Ercan Gürses (Middle East Technical University, Turkey).

Micromechanical modeling of highly heterogeneous deformation fields in spherulite microstructures.

Stefanie Heyden (Bonn University, Germany).

Functional optimality of the sulcus pattern of the human brain.

Henrik Myhre Jensen (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark).

Initiation and propagation of kink bands in layered materials.

Dennis Kochmann (ETH Zurich, Switzerland).

Beyond trusses - metamaterials with tunable stiffness and improved strenght.

Varvara Kouznetsova (EindhovenUniversity of Technology, the Netherlands).

Fine scale plasticity and damage of martensite in advanced steels.

Markus Lazar (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany).

Singularity-free dislocation continuum theory for anisotropic crystals.

Mathias Lebihain (Institut Jean le Rond d'Alembert - University Pierre and Marie, France).

How do microstructural defects make fracture surfaces rough in brittle materials?

Jean-Baptiste Leblond (Institut Jean le Rond d'Alembert - University Pierre and Marie, France).

A new theoretical approach of Greenwood-Johnson's mechanism of transformation plasticity of metals and alloys.

Brian Nyvang Legarth (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark).

Interaction between a blunted crack-tip and voids in a plastically anisotropic metal.

Dominique Leguillon (Institut Jean le Rond d'Alembert - University Pierre and Marie, France).

Defects and grain size in ceramics. An interpretation of the Petch law by the coupled criterion.

Javier Llorca (IMDEA Materials, Spain).

Multiscale modelling of precipitation hardening in Al-Cu alloys.

Mitchell Luskin (University of Minnesota, USA).

Mechanical relaxation of incommensurate 2D heterostructures in configuration space.

Jaime Marian (University of California Los Angeles, USA).

Dislocation-solute interactions on diffusive timescales using kinetic Monte Carlo simulations.

Xanthippi Markenscoff (University of California, San Diego, USA).

Self-similarly expanding ellipsoidal inclusions as a model for deep focus earthquakes and dynamic instabilities.

Emilio Martínez Pañeda (Cambridge University, UK).

Unraveling fracture phenomena through strain gradient plasticity.

Juan Pedro Mendez (California Institute of Technology, USA).

Diffusive molecular dynamics simulations.

Alain Molinari (University of Lorraine, France).

Internal length scales in ductile materials under dynamic loading.

Alejandro Mota (Sandia National Laboratories, USA).

The Schwarz alternating method for concurrent multiscale in finite deformation solid mechanics.

Alan Needleman (Texas A&M University, USA).

Discrete Shear Transformation Zone (STZ) Plasticity.

Mauricio Ponga (University of British Columbia, Canada).

Accelerated mesodynamics: A new technique for time acceleration in atomic simulations.

Pedro Ponte Castañeda (University of Pennsylvania, USA).

Finite-strain homogenization models for porous viscoplastic polycrystals.

Michael Ortiz (Bonn University, Germany, and California Institute of Technology, USA).

The anomalous yield behavior of fused-silica glass.

Daniel Rittel (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel).

The physics and mechanics of dynamic shear localization.

Jose A. Rodríguez-Martínez (University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain).

Random distributions of material defects trigger regular necking patterns at high strain rates.

Pratheek Shanthraj (Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH, Germany).

Chemo-mechanical modelling of dislocations in complex alloys.

Claude Stolz (Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France).

On bounding global behaviour for composite with imperfect interface between phases.

Stanisław Stupkiewicz (Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Poland).

Minimal gradient-enhancement of crystal plasticity: size effects in spherical and wedge indentation.

Bob Svendsen (RWTH Aachen University, Germany).

Projection-fluctuation-based spatio-temporal coarse-graining of dislocation dynamics.

Viggo Tvergaard (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark).

Nucleation from a cluster of inclusions, leading to void coalescense.

Kerstin Weinberg (Universität Siegen, Germany).

On variational and ad-hoc formulations in phase-field fracture modeling of brittle solids.

Haiyang Yu (Oxford University, UK).

Continuum scale hydrogen-microvoid interactions and their implications.

Ramón Zaera (University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain).

Solitons solutions for two-dimensional lattices on a nonlinear bed.