USNCCM-10: Ab initio and intermediate atomistics in computational nanomechanics

10th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics
July 16-19, 2009. Columbus, Ohio

Minisymposium 2.2.5  Ab Initio and Intermediate Atomistics in Computational Nanomechanics 

Organizers: 

Traian Dumitrica, University of Minnesota

Boris I. Yakobson, Rice University 

The success of many nanotechnologies depends on our ability to understand and control the mechanics of nano objects, such as nano-tubes, -wires, -plates (recently, graphene). Many important nanomechanical problems concern phenomena contained in the microscopic or the macroscopic scale. This MiniSymposium will provide a forum for presenting applications of microscopic (from ab initio to tight binding to empirical force field) and continuum modeling techniques in computational nanomechanics as well as theoretical developments in multiscale modeling.