Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering is pleased to introduce a special collection of articles from 2009. These articles were selected to represent the diversity of the journal, some containing outstanding research and breakthroughs, some with especially clear exposition and beautiful presentation, and others that are instructive, with tools useful to many readers.
Whether you are reading these articles for the first time or from renewed interest, we hope you will find them enjoyable and stimulating.
First-principles approaches to intrinsic strength and deformation of materials: perfect crystals, nano-structures, surfaces and interfaces2009 Modelling Simul. Mater. Sci. Eng. 17 013001
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Sensitivity to grain discretization of the simulated crystal stress distributions in FCC polycrystals2009 Modelling Simul. Mater. Sci. Eng. 17 015001
doi: 10.1088/0965-0393/17/1/015001Tag this article
The influence of short range order on the thermodynamics of Fe–Cr alloys2009 Modelling Simul. Mater. Sci. Eng. 17 025006
doi: 10.1088/0965-0393/17/2/025006Tag this article
Defect evolution and pore collapse in crystalline energetic materials2009 Modelling Simul. Mater. Sci. Eng. 17 035003
doi: 10.1088/0965-0393/17/3/035003Tag this article
3D atomistic simulation of the interaction between a ductile crack and a Cu nanoprecipitate2009 Modelling Simul. Mater. Sci. Eng. 17 035008
doi: 10.1088/0965-0393/17/3/035008Tag this article
A review of extended/generalized finite element methods for material modeling2009 Modelling Simul. Mater. Sci. Eng. 17 043001
doi: 10.1088/0965-0393/17/4/043001Tag this article
A unified framework and performance benchmark of fourteen multiscale atomistic/continuum coupling methods2009 Modelling Simul. Mater. Sci. Eng. 17 053001
doi: 10.1088/0965-0393/17/5/053001Tag this article
Simulation of micromechanical behavior of polycrystals: finite elements versus fast Fourier transforms2009 Modelling Simul. Mater. Sci. Eng. 17 064010
doi: 10.1088/0965-0393/17/6/064010Tag this article
Phase-field models in materials science2009 Modelling Simul. Mater. Sci. Eng. 17 073001
doi: 10.1088/0965-0393/17/7/073001Tag this article
Daniel Bonamy 2009 J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 42 214014
M Shimoda and H R Sharma 2008 J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 20 314008
Iwan Jensen J. Stat. Mech. (2009) P02065
S. Ku et al 2009 Nucl. Fusion 49 115021
Wang Jing et al 2009 Chinese Phys. Lett. 26 117301
L Stollenwerk 2009 New J. Phys. 11 103034
J Lecointre et al 2009 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 192 012020
Spyros Basilakos and Manolis Plionis 2009 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 189 012004
F Neves et al 2009 Smart Mater. Struct. 18 115003
N Aizawa and R Chakrabarti 2009 J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 42 295208