USNCCM 10 Minisymposium on "Recent Advances in Computational Materials Science and Multiscale Materials Modeling"

 This 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. Abstract Submission Deadline to the Congress: January 31, 2009

We invite contributions 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.