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The Thomas Young Centre (TYC) was established to coordinate activities among the leading research groups in London who work on the theory and simulation of materials, thereby enhancing both the quality of research and its impact on industry and academia.
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Science Highlight
Low speed fracture instabilities in a brittle crystal
J. R. Kermode (Cambridge), T. Albaret (Lion), D. Sherman (Haifa), N. Bernstein (Washington DC), P. Gumbsch (IWM Freiburg, Univ. of Karlsruhe), M. C. Payne (Cambridge), G. Csányi (Cambridge), and A. De Vita (King's)
Materials failure is of central importance to many technologies, from
electronic devices to armour and from solar cells to coatings. When a
brittle material (such as a ceramic, an oxide or a semiconductor) is
loaded to the limit of its strength, it fails by nucleation and
propagation of a crack. The conditions for crack propagation, which
determine when the material will fail, depend on macroscopic
parameters such as the geometry and dimensions of the specimen. The
way the crack propagates, however, is entirely determined by
atomic-scale phenomena, since brittle crack tips are atomically sharp
and propagate by breaking the variously oriented interatomic bonds,
one at a time, at each point of the moving crack front.
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Latest News and Events
Monday 12 - Tuesday 13 January 2009
2009 MSL Workshop: Accessing large length and time scales with accurate quantum methods
Mesomechanics 2009 Conference
Abstract submission: Wednesay 31 December 2008
Student Day 2008
The prize winners were as follows:
Best talk: Vito Conte (KCL), Modelling Tissue Development in Drosophila Embryos
Runners-up: Jennifer Brookes (UCL), Theoretical Investigation of Olfaction in Humans and Aimee Bailey (ICL), The ‘Caterpillar’ Model for a Biological Filament.
Congratulations to them all. Vito received a £75 PC World gift voucher and Jennifer and Aimee each received £25 vouchers.
Christmas Card Competition 2008 The winning entry, Spin Bubbles, was created by Giulia C. De Fusco (Imperial College London) using DLVisualize.
Winning entry
2nd place, Ice nucleation and the first stage of cloud formation submitted by the Ice Group (UCL)
3rd place, Close up of salt dissolving in water, submitted by the Ice Group (UCL)
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Page last updated: December 23, 2008, at 11:55 AM