Syllabus

Introduction – materials deformation and fracture phenomena – strength of materials: flaws, defects, and a perfect material, brittle vs. ductile material behavior, the need for atomistic simulations – ap- plications basic atomistic modeling – classical molecular dynamics – interatomic potential-numerical implementation – visualisation – atomistic elasticity, the virial stress and strain – multiscale model- ing and simulation methods – deformation and dynamical failure of brittle and ductile materials – applications.