Symposium 2: Statistical methods for materials deformation and failure

Organizes: M. Carman Miguel, Stefano Zapperi, Mikko Alava, Istvan Groma

Oral Presentations

Blue: Invited talk (30 minutes)
Black: Contributed talk (20 minutes)
Green: Posters presentation

Wednesday Morning

Tom Lubensky, Theory of Nematic and Smectic Elastomers

Alfonso Ngan, Athermal Statistical Mechanics for Material Elastostatics and Deformation

Roman Groger, Turab Lookman and Avadh Saxena: Mesoscopic description of martensitic phase transformations mediated by dislocations using the Landau‐Ginzburg theory

Lasse Laurson, M.‐Carmen Miguel and Mikko Alava, Heterogeneous dynamics near dislocation jamming

Paolo Moretti and M. Carmen Miguel, Topology and transport in driven vortex lattices

Juliette Chevy, Plastic deformation heterogeneities in ice; experimental and numerical evidences

Wednesday Afternoon

James Sethna and Surachate Limkumnerd, Walls formed by bending: grain boundaries and cell walls from continuum plasticity

Thomas Hochrainer, Peter Gumbsch and Daniel Weygand, On the non‐linear dynamics of multiple slip

Jie Deng and Anter El‐Azab, Theoretical and computational modeling of the statistics of internal elastic fields in 3D dislocation systems

Ferenc F. Csikor, István Groma and Thomas Hochrainer, 3D dislocation pair correlation functions from DDD simulations