Sandra Korte-Kertzel, Peter Gumbsch and I are organizing a Symposium on the Fundamentals of Fracture
at the joint meeting of the German and European Physical Societies (DPG and EPS) in Berlin, March 11-13 2018.
Maybe the following open access article in Materials 2017, 10(1), 88 is of interest to modellers wanting to use experimental microstructures in their simulations:
Hands-on tutorials and an International Workshop on Modelling and Simulations of Superalloys will take place
March 27th-31st at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.
There are ten days left to submit your abstract for the E-MRS Spring Meeting which will take place in Strasbourg, France, from May 22 to 26, 2017.
For more information visit:
http://www.european-mrs.com/small-scale-mechanical-behaviour-interfaces…
I would like to point you to the
Mini symposium at the 14th International Conference on Fracture Rhodes, June 18-23 2017
on Atomistic and Mesoscale Aspects of Fracture and Fatigue
Chair: Prof. Peter Gumbsch, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology & Fraunhofer IWM, Germany
Co-chair: Dr Gianpietro Moras, Fraunhofer IWM, Germany
In a recent article in Acta Materialia ("Atom probe informed simulations of dislocation-precipitate interactions reveal the importance of local interface curvature" http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1359645415002268 ) we showed how the interface curvature influences dislocation - precipitate interactions.
Any fracture process ultimately involves the rupture of atomic bonds. Processes at the atomic scale therefore critically influence the toughness and overall fracture behavior of materials. Atomistic simulation methods including large-scale molecular dynamics simulations with classical potentials, density functional theory calculations and advanced concurrent multiscale methods have led to new insights e.g. on the role of bond trapping, dynamic effects, crack-microstructure interactions and chemical aspects on the fracture toughness and crack propagation patterns in metals and ceramics.
In this paper in the Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids (vol. 84, p. 358,
http://authors.elsevier.com/a/1Rk5057Zjdx-o ) we propose a
new theory for the mechanical properties of fivefold twinned nanowires.
We show that the Frank vector of the central wedge disclination depends on the uniaxial strain,
