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Title:
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Spatial and/or Temporal Multi-scale Computational Modeling of Materials 

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Organizers:
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Somnath Ghosh	
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH 			
ghosh.5@osu.edu

Peter Wriggers              
Institut fuer Baumechanik und 
Numerische Mechanik
Universitaet Hannover                                   
Hannover, Germany
wriggers@ibnm.uni-hannover.de

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Minisymposium description:
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Multi-scale modeling of material behavior at multiple temporal scales has become an important 
field of research and development to complement more traditional methods of modeling and 
experiments at a single scale. Various spatial scales correspond to macroscopic and microscopic 
of continuum material response, mesoscopic scales of discrete dislocations and nano-scales of 
atomistic and quantum descriptions. Material behavior at each of these scales is also governed 
by different time-scale response. The proposed symposium will try to bring together a group of 
researchers who are working towards bridging critical gaps between two or more length and/or 
time scales. The application domains will encompass heterogeneous material behavior, structural 
failure and fatigue, ductility, aging and environmental degradation. The materials considered may 
be conventional and nano- composites, metals and alloys and bio-materials and others. Methods used 
can encompass finite elements and other continuum numerical methods, discrete dislocation modeling, 
molecular dynamics and ab-initio methods.