IUTAM Symposium on Modelling Nanomaterials and Nanosystems
Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held in Aalborg, Denmark, 19-22 May, 2008
Editors: Pyrz, R., Rauhe, Jens C. (Eds.)
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Recent interest in nanotechnology is challenging the community to analyse, develop and design nanometer to micrometer-sized devices for applications in new generations of computer, electronics, photonics and drug delivery systems. To successfully design and fabricate novel nanomaterials and nanosystems, we must necessarily bridge the gap in our understanding of mechanical properties and processes at length scales ranging from 100 nanometers (where atomistic simulations are currently possible) to a micron (where continuum mechanics is experimentally validated). For this purpose the difficulties and complexity originate in the substantial differences in philosophy and viewpoints between conventional continuum mechanics and quantum theories. The challenge lies in how to establish the relationship between a continuum mechanical system and its atomistic counterpart in order to define continuum variables that are calculable within an atomic system.
A major focus of the symposium is on modelling schemes, which allow for concurrent atomistic and continuum description of deformation and fracture of advanced materials. Contributions cover development and implementation of models and theories, which account for the full transition from an atomistic description to a continuum description, and vice versa, in a seamless manner. Particular attention is devoted to two approaches, namely, simultaneous (synchronous, direct) integration methods, where interacting simulation and modelling levels are simultaneously considered, and sequential (non-synchronous, indirect) integration methods, which consist of an appropriate transfer of parameters among calculations that are used sequentially. The distinction is made between methods which are discrete both at the atomic and continuum level and methods which embed statistics of the atomic level in the continuum level.
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Multiscale Failure Modeling: From Atomic Bonds to Hyperelasticity with Softening
Pages 1-12
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Crack Initiation, Kinking and Nanoscale Damage in Silica Glass: Multimillion-Atom Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Pages 13-17
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Multiscale Modelling of Layered-Silicate/PET Nanocomposites during Solid-State Processing
Pages 19-26
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Modelling Transient Heat Conduction at Multiple Length and Time Scales: A Coupled Non-Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics/Continuum Approach
Pages 27-36
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Multiscale Modeling of Amorphous Materials with Adaptivity
Pages 37-42
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Table of contents (30 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- IUTAM Symposium on Modelling Nanomaterials and Nanosystems
- Book Subtitle
- Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held in Aalborg, Denmark, 19-22 May, 2008
- Editors
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- R. Pyrz
- Jens C. Rauhe
- Series Title
- IUTAM Bookseries
- Series Volume
- 13
- Copyright
- 2009
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4020-9557-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4020-9557-3
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-4020-9556-6
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-90-481-8155-1
- Series ISSN
- 1875-3507
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 342
- Topics