We congratulate Marco Schmidt on his PhD

4 December 2020

Marco Schmidt, a former research assistant at our institute (structural mechanics), successfully defended his PhD thesis on December 4, 2020. We congratulate him warmly!

The title of his theisis:

"Biaxiale Experimente und numerische Simulationen mit neu entwickelten Probekörpern zur Vorhersage der Schädigung und des Versagens duktiler Metalle"
("Biaxial experiments and numerical simulations with newly developed test specimens to predict damage and failure of ductile metals")

Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Michael Brünig (University of the Bundswehr Munich)  Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Manuela Sander (University of Rostock) and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfram Volm (Technical University of Munich) acted as reviewers for this PhD thesis.

To prevent damage to components and structures and to ensure a high level of operational reliability, predicting the damage and failure behavior of ductile materials using suitable models is of great importance. Various phenomenological or micromechanical models are presented in the literature for this purpose. A key aspect is also representing the behavior as a function of stress triaxiality. Against this background, Mr. Schmidt investigated the damage and failure behavior of ductile materials based on Brünig's continuum damage model using experimental and numerical methods and derived a cracking criterion from it.