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Bioinspired multifunctional structural materials

Bioinspired multifunctional structural materials
Natural materials are multifunctional. Consider the simple shell of a gastropod: it evolved to achieve balance during locomotion, protection against predation and dehydration, storage of mineral, anchoring structure for muscles… And what is fascinating is that all this is realised using 95% of calcium carbonate. As a comparison, the engineered equivalent of a mollusc shell would be chalk, a material with very low functionalities… The key difference between natural and most engineered materials is the intricate microstructures in which the building blocks (calcium carbonate in our example) are arranged. Developing the tools to translate these microstructures into engineered materials would allow us to better understand microstructure-properties relationships. Ultimately, this could create new sets of materials with unique combinations of properties.In this seminar, I will present the latest progress from our group on the fabrication of bioinspired microstructures for engineering and discuss the potential of those materials. [more]

7th International Symposium on Computational Mechanics of Polycrystals, CMCn 2020 and DAMASK User Meeting

7th International Symposium on Computational Mechanics of Polycrystals, CMcn 2020
CMCn2020 The Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung in Düsseldorf is organizing the 7th International Symposium on Computational Mechanics of Polycrystals and we would like to invite you and your research colleagues to participate in this event. This symposium is part of a biannual series of symposia that originated with the establishment of the first joint research group formed between the Max Planck Society and the Fraunhofer Society and investigating Computational Mechanics of Polycrystals. This year the symposium is again combined with the DAMASK User Meeting. DAMASK is the multi-physics simulation software developed at MPIE. The symposium will take place on September 14th and 15th, 2020 in the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung at Max-Planck-Straße 1, 40237 Düsseldorf, Germany.The DAMASK User Meeting will be held on the following two days, September 16th and 17th at the same location. [more]

Reliable extraction of deformation activation parameters from transient and high strain rate micromechanical tests

In-situ Nano-/Micromechanics Summer Seminar Series 2020
Where: virtual on Zoom (link follows) [more]

Evaluating electro-mechanical reliability using in-situ methods

In-situ Nano-/Micromechanics Summer Seminar Series 2020
Where: virtual on Zoom (link follows) [more]
We are happy to announce and welcome you this year to an online seminar in place for the BiGmax workshop on Big-Data-Driven Materials Science. We were enlightened by your interest in the workshop back then in April. With the global Covid19 pandemic now, the online workshop will be slightly shorter. Currently, two topical sessions are planned with a half-day online seminar for each. One session will be on machine learning and image processing for materials science data. The other session will be on machine learning for and on the development of ab-initio methods. Each session will contain live talks and posters presentations. Aligned with the mission of BiGmax, the workshop will connect materials scientists with physicists, and experts for machine learning, scientific computing, and data science.We will contact all participants who had originally planned to join and contribute to the workshop. We will send an email invitation to every single one of you with the program and the details on how to participate. With that we hope to reconvene online this year and are very much looking forward to hearing, discussing, and learning from your contributions. [more]
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