CEIMM-HEMI joint Seminar    Use of Large-Scale Atomistic and Discrete Dislocation Dynamics Simulations for Quantifying Dislocation Behavior and Strengthening in Metallic Alloys Dr. Satish I. Rao Senior Research Scientist, UES Inc. satish.rao.ctr@us.af.mil   Large-scale atomistic and discrete dislocation dynamics simulations are useful tools for quantifying dislocation behavior and strengthening in metallic alloys. Three examples illustrate […]

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Professor Kevin Hemker, Professor Somnath Ghosh, and their colleagues will receive a 2013 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) for the acquisition of capital equipment that revolutionizes existing facilities in three key areas: multi-scale materials characterization, multi-scale materials modeling, and data management. These areas are central to interdisciplinary research activities […]

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  CEIMM-AFRL workshop was held in June 11-12 at the Tec^Edge in Dayton, OH. Researchers in AFRL and faculty and students from the academia were brought together to firm up the initial model-driven experiments and develop the research plans for the Center of Excellence on Integrated Materials Modeling, CEIMM.   Over the two days of […]

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CEIMM-HEMI joint Seminar     A Bridging Scale Space-Time Approach to Coupled Atomistic/Continuum Simulation Many engineering applications are featured by a multitude of spatial and temporal scales that poses a great challenge for design and analysis. In this talk, I will address this important subject with the development of bridging scale methods based on the […]

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On the 16th of April, Dr. David Walker, the Air Force Deputy Assistant Secretary (Science, Technology and Engineering), mentioned CEIMM in his testimony to Congress.  He mentioned it as a part of their support for the President’s Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) when briefing the overall status of Air Force Science & Technology.  In particular, the […]

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  CEIMM Inaugural Seminar Characterizing Novel Deformation Mechanisms in Metallic Alloys and Importance for ICME   The national initiative on Integrated Computational Materials Engineering holds great promise for accelerating the insertion of new materials in high performance structural applications.  Achieving this aim relies upon the fidelity of materials models and their ability to capture the […]

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The Search for Tougher Materials Advances in the science of computational modeling of materials and structures have made it possible not just to redesign materials traditionally used in armor and other defense applications, but to develop new ones.   That’s one of the goals of Somnath Ghosh, director of the Whiting School’s Computational Mechanics Research Laboratory and a […]

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  updated 12/6/2013 The first meeting of the CEIMM Team showed great promise for collaboration among a number of groups across the country.  In spite of minor disagreements the integration of diverse thought seems to be on a guided and fruitful path by a host of some of the brightest minds. The meeting spanned two […]

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AIR FORCE CENTER OF EXCELLENCE IN INTEGRATED MATERIALS MODELING (CEIMM) The Air Force Center for Excellence in Integrated Materials Modeling, or CEIMM, is seeking outstanding graduate students with a strong background or interest in computational solid mechanics, computational material science, physical sciences and mathematics. Students will begin in the Spring 2013 semester, in January and participate […]

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The U.S. Air Force has selected a team led by Johns Hopkins engineers to start a new materials research center of excellence that will develop novel computational and experimental methods to support the next generation of military aircraft. The Center of Excellence on Integrated Material Modeling, CEIMM, will advance the Computational Integrated Materials Science and […]

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