Topics of CMDS (not limited to)

• Multiscale and multiphysics models for complex heterogeneous systems and metamaterials

• Material classes: structural, multi-functional, nano/microstructured materials, bioinspired and soft materials

• Material behaviour: elasticity, fracture, damage, plasticity, thermo-mechanics, viscosity

• Non-standard/non-local continuous formulations for materials with microstructure

• Atomistic/Molecular models and applications to continuum mechanics problems 

• Statistical and mesoscale materials modeling

• Hierarchical/Concurrent multiscale modeling approaches

• Additive manufacturing, architected materials and metamaterials

• Design and optimization for lattice and cellular structures

• Grid shells and lattice spatial structures

• Data-driven approaches, machine learning, and AI-informed inverse modeling 

• Waves in discrete and continuous systems

• Thermodynamics, transport theory, electrical properties, and statistical mechanics in the context of continuum modeling of discrete systems

• Granular materials: statics and dynamics

• Continuum/discrete theories of living structures

• Structures of composites with extreme or unusual properties

• Phenomenological models for rate-dependent/independent material and structure behaviours

Special Thematic Sessions