Many arenas of research are rapidly advancing due to a combined effort between engineering and science. In some cases, fields of research that were stagnating under the exclusive domain of one discipline have been imbued with new discoveries through collaboration with practitioners from the second discipline. In computational mechanics, we are particularly concerned about the technological engi...

Proteins are an integral part of nature's material design. Here we apply multiscale modeling capable of providing a bottom-up description of the nanomechanics of chemically complex protein materials under large deformation and fracture. To describe the formation and breaking of chemical bonds of different character, we use a new reactive force field approach that enables us to describe the unfo...

Proteins are an integral part of nature’s material design. Here we apply multiscale modeling capable of providing a bottom-up description of the nanomechanics of chemically complex protein materials under large deformation and fracture. To describe the formation and breaking of chemical bonds of different character, we use a new reactive force field approach that enables us to describe the unfo...