Mini Symposium Details
13: Multiscale Methods for Complex Materials
- Stefan Löhnert, Institute of Continuum Mechanics, Leibniz Universität Hannover
- Bernhard Eidel, Institute of Computational Mechanics, University of Siegen
- Jörg F. Unger, BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Berlin
This minisymposium is dedicated to discuss recent advances in multiscale modelling of materials with complex microstructures. Scale transitions in space and time, involving at least two scales, are of interest as well as computational issues and efficiency for the simulation of complex materials such as concrete or polycrystalline metals. The main focus of this minisymposium are the topics
- Homogenisation techniques and FE2 methods for microheterogeneous materials
- Multiscale modelling of degrading materials
- Multiphysics phenomena across the scales
- Multiscale and multiphysics modelling of cementitious materials
- Creep, shrinkage, fatigue and fracture in cementitious materials
- Coupling between atomistic and continuum models
- Reduced order modelling and other numerical techniques to reduce the computational effort within multiscale strategies
- Numerical and experimental validation of multiscale techniques