“…The need for understanding the evolution of microstructural characteristics with deformation has stimulated the development of advanced micromechanical models that accurately describe the underlying physical phenomena, e.g., recrystallization [3,17], martensitic phase transitions [20,23,35], phase separation and coarsening by diffusion [5], twinning and detwinning [12,39], dislocation interactions [7,9], and cracking and damage growth [2,4,8,29]. In order to apply state-of-the-art micromechanical models for the analysis of large-scale engineering problems, efficient and generic multiscale methods need to be developed for keeping the computational times within manageable bounds.…”