677 - Bridging Scales in Amorphous Materials: From Molecular Simulations to Mechanical Properties

This colloquium will examine recent advances in multiscale computational mechanics of amorphous materials, focusing on strategies that bridge molecular simulations and continuum descriptions to predict mechanical behavior across scales. Topics include homogenization, FE² methods, coarse-graining, heterogeneous multiscale approaches, and concurrent coupling techniques. Particular emphasis will be placed on the multiscale mechanisms governing deformation, damage, and fracture in glasses, polymers, and related amorphous solids. The meeting will also address thermodynamically consistent coupling, uncertainty quantification, surrogate modeling, and data-driven methods, bringing together researchers from mechanics, materials science, physics, chemistry, and applied mathematics.