Seminar Jorge Alcalá: Multi-scale mechanistic interpretations to indentation experiments across the material length scales: from continuum to atomistics

Prof. Jorge Alcalá (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) We provide a fundamental contact mechanics background to the interpretation of spherical indentation experiments performed in polycrystalline aggregates, single crystalline units, thin films, and minute material scales comprising an atomistic ensemble. A central issue under examination is the extraction of mechanical properties from hardness measurements as well as from instrumented indentation applied load-penetration depth curves performed in all such material lengths. Our analyses shed light into the role of the plasticity mechanisms (dislocation slip…

Summer School on Advanced Processing of Metallic Materials

The last 28th and 29th of June IMDEA Materials Institute hosted the first Summer School on Advanced Processing of Metallic Materials. This event was organized under the auspices of the DIMMAT-Project for 2016 (dissemination and training programme). This course was offered for undergraduates and graduates in sciences and engineering, and also for industry professionals in advanced materials. Lectures were carried out by distinguished scientists, technologists and industry practitioners participating in the DIMMAT consortium as well as in other technological centers…