A profound study of the final causes of the appearance of defects within materials, and the need to establish a connection between the macroscopic behaviour of the mechanical components and the microstructure of the materials, calls for a change in scale with respect to that of classical methods and a step forwards towards a study on the level of inter-atomic distances.
This area is centred on deepening the knowledge of the mechanisms that control the mechanical behaviour of materials with crystalline structure on a nanometric scale by atomistic models of discrete networks, starting from the discrete dislocation theory developed by the members of the research group.
