Events EMMC20Conference SymposiaS13: Nanomechanics, experiments and modelling

S13: Nanomechanics, experiments and modelling

 

Nicola Pugno, University of Trento, Italy, email

Ruth Schwaiger, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, email

 

Symposium description

Micro and Nanomechanical testing methods have become extremely important to characterize the mechanical behavior of materials. There has been a rapid expansion of available testing strategies in recent years to examine elastic, plastic, and fracture properties of materials at small scales, with control of loading mode, strain rate, temperature and atmosphere, including in situ and in operando testing techniques. Moreover, efforts have also focused on exploiting these techniques at large scales, often using data-driven and artificial intelligence algorithms.

This symposium aims to bring together this research community, particularly those adopting interdisciplinary approaches in micro and nanomechanics to gain insights into the small-scale mechanical behavior of structural, biological, and/or functional materials and structures. The targeted topics are:

•  Nanoindentation, microbending, micropillar compression, and others

•  Testing of nanostructures, thin films, and coatings

•  Interface and grain boundary phenomena

•  Time-resolved in situ SEM, EBSD, AFM, X-Ray/synchrotron, and TEM mechanical testing

•  In operando and in vitro micro- and nanomechanical testing

•  Deformation mechanisms and fracture phenomena bridging length scales

•  Testing under extreme conditions (high and low temperature, high strain rates, hydrogen environments, radiation,…)

•  In operando and in vitro micro- and nanomechanical testing