IUTAM Symposium on Multiscale Modeling and Characterization of Elastic-Inelastic Behavior of Engineering Materials

New developments in the brittle to ductile transitions of fracture in intrinsically brittle crystals and polycrystals.- Dislocation-based length-scales in crystal plasticity: experiments and modeling.- Application of a variational self-consistent procedure to the prediction of deformation textures in polycrystals.- What about the yield transformation surface determination (austenite ? martensite) with the measurement of austenite and martensite lattice parameters for some shape memory alloys?.- Micro to macroscopic deformation behavior of amorphous polymer with slightly heterogeneous distribution of molecular chains.- Cross slip viewed at the nano — and micrometer scale.- A multiscale micromechanics approach to describe environmental effects on surface crack initiation under cyclic loading.- Atomic — scale modeling of dislocation behaviour under stress.- Coalescence and evolution of nanoscale islands during polycrystalline thin film growth.- On pic band propagation velocity under stress controlled tests in aluminium alloys.- Effect of some parameters on the elastoplastic behavior of green sand.- Experimental investigations of size effects in thin copper foils.- Plastic response of thin films due to thermal cycling.- Measurement of the stress intensity factor, kl, for copper by a digital image correlation method.- Homogeneization of viscoplastic materials.- Collective dislocation behavior in single crystalline aluminum under indentation.- Multiscale modeling of texture gradient effects on localization in fee polycrystals.- Multiaxial plastic fatigue behavior with multiscale modeling.- Damage, opening and sliding of grain boundaries.- Gradients of hardening in nonlocal dislocation based plasticity.- Determination of the material intrinsic length scale of gradientplasticity theory.- Computer simulation of contact force distribution in random granular packings.- Three — dimensional structures of the geometrically necessary dislocations generated from non — uniformities in metal microstructures.- Simulation of texture evolution in equal channel angular extrusion of copper using a new flow field.- Initial energy dissipation mechanism at crack tip on the ductile to brittle transition.- Constitutive modeling of viscoelastic unloading of glassy polymers.- On the constitutive theories of power — law materials containing voids.- Objective quantification of the ductility within the coupling elasticity — damage behavior: formulation.- Discrete dislocation predictions for single crystal hardening tension vs bending.- On plasticity and damage evolution during sheet metal forming.- Modeling of thermo-electro-elastic effective behaviors of piezoelectric composite mediums and analysis of reinforcement orientation effects.- Investigations in size dependent torsions and fractures.- Influence of microstructural parameters on shape memory alloys behavior.- Investigation of ridging in ferritic stainless steel using crystal plasticity finite element method.- Grain boundary effects and failure evolution in polycrystalline materials.- The influence of an heterogeneous dispersion on the failure behaviour of metal-matrix composites: micromechanical approach.- A cohesive segments approach for dynamic crack growth.- A linear model of processing path in cubic-orthotropic system.- Taylor theory with microscopic slip transfer conditions.- Dynamics of nanostructure formation during thin film deposition.- Prediction of damage in randomly oriented short-fibre composites by means of a mechanistic approach.- Nonsteady plain — strain ideal plastic flowconsidering elastic dead zone.- Multiscale modeling of non — linear behaviour of heterogeneous materials: comparison of recent homogénéisation methods.- Thermomechanical behaviour of shape memory alloy taylor’s model.- Multiscale analysis of dynamic deformation in monocrystals.- Micro/meso-modeling of polymeric composites with damage evolution.- An alternative approach for heterogeneous material behaviour modeling.- On anisotropic formulations of the elastic law within multiplicative inelasticity.- Deep drawing process of the aisi 304 stainless steel cup: interaction between design tools and kinetic of plastic strain induced martensite.- Modeling and simulation of dynamic plasticity and failure in ductile metals.- Effects of polymeric additives on the morphology and the structure of the calcium carbonate material.