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A Multiscale Approach to Virtual Design and Manufacture of Materials



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Experimentation by itself is expensive and progresses slowly. High-performance computing applied to physics based multiscale simulations have the capability for bottom up design, prototyping, and optimization of advanced materials. The mechanical response of a material is given at the engineering scale using an internal state variable and in some occasions the description of mechanical properties needs to be improved in a specific region of the specimen to capture the complex nature of the material.

The aim of this work is to develop a multicale mathematical formulation to solve the equation of motion at each scale simultaneously and/or hierarchically. Such a framework will be applied to solve engineering problems involving materials of different nature such as metals, polymers or composites.