Thermodynamics, Microstructures and Plasticity

to modelling techniques in diffusive phase transformations.- Mean field theories and Ginzburg-Landau methods.- Mesoscale phase field modeling of engineering materials : microstructure and microelasticity.- Phase-field models of microstructural pattern formation.- The dynamics of interfaces in elastically stressed solids.- Cluster dynamics.- Sensitivity of texture development during grain growth to anisotropy of grain boundary properties.- Computer modelling of diffusion controlled transformations.- Solute drag : a review of the « Force » and « Dissipation » approaches to the effect of solute on grain and interphase boundary motion.- On the jerky nature of martensitic transformation.- The development of ultra high strength materials by microstructural refinement.- Microstructural aspects of cyclic defomation and fatigue of metals.- High temperature plasticity of metallic materials.- Transformation-induced plasticity in steels.- Grain size effect of plasticity modelled by molecular dynamics.- Mixed Atomistic/continuum methods : static and dynamic quasicontinuum methods.- Boundary problems in DD simulations.- Discrete dislocation plasticity.- Surface instabilities and misfit dislocations in annealed heteroepitaxial films.- On the role of the strain-rate sensitivity in collective dislocation effects.- Statistical properties of dislocation ensembles.- Collective behavior of defect ensembles and some nonlinear aspects of failure.- Field theory of crystal defect structure.- Monte-Carlo methods.- Kinetic Monte-Carlo simulations in crystalline alloys : principles and selected applications.- Role of atomic-scale simulation in the modeling of solidification microstructure.- Applications of Monte-Carlo simulations to the kinetics of phase transformations.- Experimentalinvestigations of microstructures.- Atomic scale tomography of microstructures and plastic properties.- Analysis of displacement and strain at the atomic level by high- resolution electron microscopy.- Dislocation organization under stress : TiAl.- List of Speakers.- Partners/Sponsors.