Thomas J. Barrett

My PhD work focused on developing a hierarchical multiscale model to properly represent semi-crystalline polymer composites. Our approach begins with a coarse-grained polymer simulation, where we can model both homo- and heterogenous crystallization. These provide us references for calibration with experimental results, with the latter important for our understanding of the interphase region. From here, we developed pothos and mdvoro to convert the CG control volumes into finite element representative volumes, where they may be subjected to continuum mechanics.