ASME IMECE'08 Minisymposium on Recent Advances in Computational Materials Science and Multiscale Materials Modeling

The  mini-symposium focuses on the link between the traditional materials modeling
and computational description of existing and new classes of materials, advanced and composite
materials and their applications. In particular, the mini-symposium is devoted to computational
characterization of material response and processing of material microstructures in the presence
of multiple temporal and spatial scales as well as multiple physical processes, and computational
methodologies for characterization of the microstructural topology of heterogeneous materials.
We invite contributions from physicists, chemists and materials researchers and engineers
involved in the following research areas or related topics:
 
• In the current digital age, it is befitting that complex heterogeneous materials are
characterized by digital computational and/or experimental techniques. Therefore, we invite
contributions of materials characterization using microcomputer tomography, packing
algorithms, crystal growth algorithms, etc.

• Statistics based morphological reconstruction techniques.

• Coupling of image-based modeling with homogenization techniques.

• Many complex heterogeneous material systems undergo several physical processes at once,
and their competition is as important as the individual processes themselves. Therefore, we
invite contributions focused on coupling of multiple physical processes such as propellant
combustion, corrosion driven fracture, hydrogen embrittlement, etc.

• Application of advanced numerical methods to model dynamical, transport, mechanical,
growth, thermo-mechanical properties of materials.

• Advanced multiscale methods and approaches for analysis of heterogeneous materials under
extreme loading and environmental conditions.

Symposia Organizers:

Caglar Oskay (caglar.oskay@vanderbilt.edu ), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Vanderbilt University.

Karel Matous (matous@uiuc.edu ), Computational Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.