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We are delighted to announce that Wuyang Zhao successfully defended his dissertation entitled “Multiscale modeling of the fracture behavior of glassy polymers across the atomistic and continuum scale” on August 29, 2023. In his thesis, he revisits the basics of continuum mechanics, atomistic simula...

3rd FRASCAL Retreat from 17 - 18 November 2023 at Kloster Banz in Bad Staffelstein We are pleased to announce that our next FRASCAL Retreat will soon be take place at Kloster Banz in Bad Staffelstein, located in the so-called "Franconian Switzerland". This idyllic community is known far an...

We are delighted to announce the graduation of Dr.-Ing. Maximilian Ries. In his thesis “Characterization and modeling of polymer nanocomposites across the scales,” Maximilian introduces a methodology to derive continuum mechanical models for polymer nanocomposites (PNCs) based on molecular dynamics...