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IUTAM BOOKSERIES Volume 13 Series Editors G.M.L. Gladwell, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada R. Moreau, INPG, Grenoble, France Editorial Board J. Engelbrecht, Institute of Cybernetics, Tallinn, Estonia L.B. Freund, Brown University, Providence, USA A. Kluwick, Technische Universität, Vienna, Austria H.K. Moffatt, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK N. Olhoff Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark K. Tsutomu, IIDS, Tokyo, Japan D. van Campen, Technical University Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Z. Zheng, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Aims and Scope of the Series The IUTAM Bookseries publishes the proceedings of IUTAM symposia under the auspices of the IUTAM Board.

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R. Pyrz • J.C. Rauhe Editors

IUTAM Symposium on Modelling Nanomaterials and Nanosystems Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held in Aalborg, Denmark, 19–22 May 2008

R. Pyrz Department of Mechanical Engineering Aalborg University Aalborg, Denmark

ISBN: 978-1-4020-9556-6

J.C. Rauhe Department of Mechanical Engineering Aalborg University Aalborg, Denmark

e-ISBN: 978-1-4020-9557-3

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Table of Contents

Preface

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Multiscale Failure Modeling: From Atomic Bonds to Hyperelasticity with Softening K.Y. Volokh

1

Crack Initiation, Kinking and Nanoscale Damage in Silica Glass: Multimillion-Atom Molecular Dynamics Simulation Y.C. Chen, K. Nomura, Z. Lu, R. Kalia, A. Nakano and P. Vashishta

13

Multiscale Modelling of Layered-Silicate/PET Nanocomposites during Solid-State Processing Ł. Figiel, F.P.E. Dunne and C.P. Buckley

19

Modelling Transient Heat Conduction at Multiple Length and Time Scales: A Coupled Non-Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics/Continuum Approach K. Jolley and S.P.A. Gill

27

Multiscale Modeling of Amorphous Materials with Adaptivity V.B.C. Tan, M. Deng, T.E. Tay and K.M. Lim

37

Thermodynamically-Consistent Multiscale Constitutive Modeling of Glassy Polymer Materials P.K. Valavala and G.M. Odegard

43

Effective Wall Thickness of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes for Multiscale Analysis: The Problem and a Possible Solution L.C. Zhang and C.Y. Wang

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Discrete-Continuum Transition in Modelling Nanomaterials R. Pyrz and B. Bochenek Looking beyond Limitations of Diffraction Methods of Structural Analysis of Nanocrystalline Materials B. Palosz, E. Grzanka, S. Gierlotka, M. Wojdyr, W. Palosz, T. Proffen, R. Rich and S. Stelmakh Multiscale Modelling of Mechanical