{"id":54,"date":"2025-08-12T18:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T18:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aimms-lab\/?p=54"},"modified":"2026-08-28T16:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T16:12:10","slug":"welcome-to-ai-accelerated-modeling-of-materials-at-scale-aimms-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aimms-lab\/2025\/08\/12\/welcome-to-ai-accelerated-modeling-of-materials-at-scale-aimms-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to AI-accelerated Materials Modeling across Scale (AIMMS) Lab!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AIMMS Lab is established by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tntech.edu\/directory\/engineering\/faculty\/rajni-chahal.php\">Dr. Rajni Chahal-Crockett<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tntech.edu\/engineering\/programs\/mne\/index.php\">Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tntech.edu\/\">Tennessee Tech University<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Our vision is to accelerate materials discovery by employing quantum to continuum scale simulation techniques along with multiscale modeling approaches.<\/p>\n<p>At AIMMS Lab, we use Density Functional Theory (DFT), Molecular Dynamics (MD), Finite Element Method (FEM), enhanced sampling methods, machine learning, uncertainty quantification, high-performance computing (HPC), and informed experiments to enable fundamental insights into <span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><strong>structure-property relationship<\/strong><\/span> and <span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><strong>mechanical behavior<\/strong><\/span> of materials relevant to aerospace engineering and nuclear energy applications.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for more updates!<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#wings_up<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AIMMS Lab is established by Dr. Rajni Chahal-Crockett in the Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering at Tennessee Tech University. Our vision is to accelerate materials discovery by employing quantum to continuum scale simulation techniques along with multiscale modeling approaches. At AIMMS Lab, we use Density Functional Theory (DFT), Molecular Dynamics (MD), Finite Element Method [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aimms-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aimms-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aimms-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aimms-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aimms-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aimms-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aimms-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aimms-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aimms-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/aimms-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}