Modeling and simulation is transforming modern materials science, becoming an important
tool for the discovery of new materials and material phenomena, for gaining insight into the …

We develop a non-singular, self-consistent framework for computing the stress field and the
total elastic energy of a general dislocation microstructure. The expressions are self …

In the past twenty years, new experimental approaches, improved models and progress in
simulation techniques have brought new insights into longstanding issues concerning …

Power and energy are first-order design constraints in high performance computing. Current
research using dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) relies on trading increased execution time for …

At the microscopic scale, the strength of a crystal derives from the motion, multiplication and
interaction of distinctive line defects called dislocations. First proposed theoretically in 1934 …

As the needs for the nuclear energy industry continue to evolve in the 21 st century, timely
adoption of new technological solutions acceptable to regulatory agencies is critical …

Understanding the plasticity and strength of crystalline materials in terms of the dynamics of
microscopic defects has been a goal of materials research in the last 70 years. The size …

As the HPC community attempts to reach exascale performance, power will be one of the
most critical constrained resources. Achieving practical exascale computing will therefore …

Crystalline thin films have mechanical properties that cannot be predicted based on bulk
scaling laws. Owing to their importance in technology, a great deal of effort has gone into …

Refractory multi-element alloys (RMEA) with body-centered cubic (bcc) structure have been
the subject of much research over the last decade due to their high potential as candidate …