Computational Mechanics of Materials (CMM)
Researchers at METRG work on the thermo-mechanical behavior of solid materials and address engineering and scientific phenomena spanning the length scale from nanometer to micrometer (Multiscale Materials Modeling, 3M). These engineering and scientific phenomena occur under extreme loading and environmental conditions with emphasis on microstructure optimization, damage, and fracture and material instabilities. The response of a material can be investigated at different length scales, atomic, microscopic, mesoscopic, and the continuum length scales.. Continuum properties of the materials are considered a homogenization of phenomena at smaller length scales. Therefore, coupling models at different length scales and bridging the length-gaps that exist between different length-scale models will bring out the details of physical response of materials. This is what is known as 3M. METRG is one of research groups, which pioneer in this field. At METRG, we have successfully coupled multiscale materials platforms, finite element analysis, continuum solid mechanics, molecular dynamics and heat transfer aspects, into one 3-D model.