Aim and Scope of the MMM2010

October 4-8, 2010, Freiburg Germany

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Computational modeling of materials behaviour has become a reliable tool of scientific investigation and complements theoretical and experimental approaches. Component assessment, materials processing and development of new materials systems all rely on accurate models for the description of materials properties. The linkage between materials (micro-)structure and materials properties is at the heart of all materials modelling. Multiscale Materials Modeling is required to make this link from the electronic and atomic structure of matter and discrete structural defects to the continuum descriptions appropriate at larger scales. Multiscale Materials Modeling can be a predictive tool to provide such continuum descriptions as it provides methods to overcome the inherent limitations of discrete methods in time and length-scales.

Although the field is still very much under development, modern Multiscale Materials Modeling techniques clearly have the capacity to solve computational materials problems with unprecedented levels of rigor and accuracy and to provide powerful new tools for materials design. While having developed out of the industrial need for improved design of engineering metals, polymers and composites, Multiscale Materials Modeling has recently also become an indispensable aid in unravelling the mysteries of biological materials and systems.

By its very nature Multiscale Materials Modeling is an interdisciplinary research field with contributions from physics and chemistry, materials science and biology as well as mechanics, mathematics and computer sciences. It also requires the close collaboration of modellers with experimentalists since appropriate validation experiments are crucial to verify that the models predict the correct behaviour at each scale. The MMM conference series was established to provide an interdisciplinary forum for the promotion of scientific advances, new concepts and application areas and to foster the technical exchange in the field of Multiscale Materials Modeling.