Research

Nano-mechanics; multiscale and molecular dynamics simulations of metallic and hydrocarbon systems; high-performance computing applications of multi-scale modeling in materials science; development of interatomic potentials for materials science.

Applications

Delayed hydride cracking in nuclear reactors; oil breakdown mechanisms; effects of radiation on materials in nuclear reactors.

Activities

• “Modeling Materials: Continuum, Atomistic and Multiscale Techniques” E.B. Tadmor and R.E. Miller, Cambridge University Press (2011)
• “Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics: From Fundamental Concepts to Governing Equations” E.B. Tadmor, R.E. Miller and R.S. Elliott, Cambridge University Press (2011)
• Instructor, “Tutorial on atomistic simulations using standardized interatomic potentials,” Short Course at USNCCM-11 (http://www.usnccm.org), Minneapolis, MN (2011)
• Co-organizer, Minisymposium, “Recent Advances in the Quasicontinuum Method and other
• Atomistic/Continuum coupling Techniques,” 11th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Minneapolis, MN (2011)

Journal Articles

R.E. Miller and E.B. Tadmor, “A unified framework and performance benchmark of fourteen multiscale atomistic/continuum coupling methods,” Modelling Simul. Mater. Sci. Eng. 17, art. 053001, 2009. Note: Topical Review

Carlos Campana, K.P. Boyle and Ronald E. Miller, “Grain boundary motion assisted via radiation cascades in bcc Fe,” Physical Review B, 78(13) art. 134114, 2008.

Behrouz Shiari and Ronald E. Miller, “Multiscale modeling of ductile crystals at the nanoscale subjected to cyclic indentation”, Acta Materialia, 56(12), pp. 2799-2809, 2008.

Ronald E Miller and David Rodney, “On the nonlocal nature of dislocation nucleation during nanoindentation,” J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 56(4), pp. 1203-1223, 2008.

Ronald E. Miller and Ellad B. Tadmor, “Hybrid Continuum Mechanics and Atomistic Methods for Simulating Materials Deformation and Failure”, MRS Bulletin, 32, pp 920-926, 2007. Note: Invited Review