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Organization profile
Introduction / mission
We aim to develop and innovate the scientific tools to understand, describe, predict and optimize the mechanical response of industrially relevant materials and products.
Highlighted phrase
Substantially increasing predictive power.
Organisational profile
The scientific research activities in the Mechanics of Materials group concentrate on the experimental analysis, theoretical understanding and predictive modelling of a range of problems in materials engineering at different length scales, which emerge from the physics and the mechanics of the underlying multi-material microstructure.
The program aims for a substantial increase of the predictive power, thereby optimizing critical, state-of-the-art products and manufacturing processes in direct relation to the complex path-dependent loading history of different materials and their joining interfaces. A systematic and integrated numerical-experimental approach is adopted for this purpose. Within the group’s research scope, the research program entails:
- Novel theoretical & fundamental insights in the structure-property relations of materials: metals, composites, hybrid materials, ceramics, paper, textiles;
- Novel computational methods: multi-scale methods; computational damage & fracture mechanics; improved and enriched constitutive models;
- Novel materials/microstructures: materials in miniaturization; interface mechanics for complex 3D structures; microsystem mechanics; microstructure evolution (sub structuring, patterning, self-organization);
- Novel experimental methods: full field measurements across the scales (DIC, GDIC, IDIC); various in-situ mechanical tests (integrated with different microscopic visualization methods); small-scale testing for characterizing the fine scale.
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Profiles
Elisa Bergkamp
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Energy Technology - Doctoral Candidate
- Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Remmers
Person: Prom. : doctoral candidate (PhD), Student
W.A.M. (Marcel) Brekelmans
- Mechanics of Materials - University Lecturer
Person: OWP : University Teacher / Researcher
Projects
- 1 Active
Unraveling the effect of microstructure statistics on failure of multiphase steels NWO-TTW/HTM 16348
Hoefnagels, J. P. M., van Maris, M. P. F. H. L., Vermeij, T. & Wijnen, J.
1/01/18 → 31/08/22
Project: Research direct
Research Output
An FFT-based spectral solver for interface decohesion modelling using a gradient damage approach
Sharma, L., Peerlings, R. H. J., Shanthraj, P., Roters, F. & Geers, M. G. D., 1 Apr 2020, In : Computational Mechanics. 65, 4, p. 925-939 15 p., 386.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Open Access
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Efficient modelling of delamination growth using adaptive isogeometric continuum shell elements
Adams, C., Fagerström, M. & Remmers, J., 1 Jan 2020, In : Computational Mechanics. 65, 1, p. 99-117 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Open Access
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Experimental characterization and modeling of the mechanical behavior of brittle 3D printed food
Jonkers, N., van Dommelen, J. A. W. H. & Geers, M. G. D., Aug 2020, In : Journal of Food Engineering. 278, August 2020, 11 p., 109941.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Open Access
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Equipment
Multiscale Lab
Johan P.M. Hoefnagels (Manager)
Department of Mechanical EngineeringFacility/equipment: Research lab
Prizes
Best MSc Thesis Award of 2018
Tijmen Vermeij (Recipient), 29 Jul 2019
Prize: Other › Career, activity or publication related prizes (lifetime, best paper, poster etc.) › Scientific
Dorothy Hoffman Travel Award, 48th AVS Symposium, San Francisco
Johan P.M. Hoefnagels (Recipient), 2001
Prize: Other › Scholarships › Scientific
Fellow of the European Mechanics Society
Marc G.D. Geers (Recipient), 9 Jul 2012
Prize: Other › Fellowships & memberships › Scientific
Activities
- 7 Contributed talk
25th FISITA Congres: Part 4 "Safety", Beijing, China, October 17-21, 1994, Beijing China
J. Wismans (Speaker)21 Oct 1994
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Contributed talk › Scientific
4e Nat. Symp. Spoedeisende Medische Hulpverlening en Rampenbestrijding, Utrecht, 10 December 1993
J. Wismans (Speaker)10 Dec 1993
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Contributed talk › Scientific
Congres Verkeers(on)veiligheid, Nederlandse Stichting Whiplash Patienten (NSWP), 13 oktober 1993, Utrecht, Nederland
J. Wismans (Speaker)13 Oct 1993
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Contributed talk › Scientific
Press / Media
3rd Int Wkshop on Physics Based Material Models & Experimental Observations
2/06/14
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Research areas
Student theses
A computational study on the role of glide plane interaction on the dislocation behavior by means of the Peierls-Naborro model
Author: Garcia Rodriguez, A., 11 Dec 2018Supervisor: Bormann, F. (Supervisor 1) & Peerlings, R. (Supervisor 2)
Student thesis: Master
Advancing serial sectioning and High Resolution EBSD in crystalline materials: towards large volume high resolution 3D residual stress measurements
Author: Vermeij, T., 1 May 2018Supervisor: Hoefnagels, J. (Supervisor 1) & van Maris, M. (Coach)
Student thesis: Master
Computational Analysis of Crack Deflection at a Bi-Material Interface by means of Initially Rigid and Elastic Mixed-mode Traction-Separation Laws.
Author: van der Kuil, I. & Remmers, J., Mar 2019Supervisor: Remmers, J. (Supervisor 1)
Student thesis: Master
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