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The chair of continuum mechanics is active in developing methods for the continuum mechanical modeling and simulation of complex materials. Focus is on the development of scale-coupling numerical methods as well as new material models which enable the simulation of materials such as multiphase steels, textile membranes, soft biological tissues, fiber-concrete composites, or hardmetal composites by incorporating uncertainties at different scales. Increasingly, the experimental characterization of nonlinear material properties as well as the unique identification of material parameters become more important.

Contact

Chair of Continuum Mechanics

Ruhr-University Bochum
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Building IC Floor 03, Room 741,
P.O. Box No. 5,
Universitätsstraße 150

44801 Bochum
Germany

✆:  +49 234 32-26048
℻: +49 234 32-14229
✉: sekretariat@lkm.rub.de


We are always looking for motivated students who are interested in working on their thesis with us. If you are passionate about mathematics, engineering problems and have a flair for programming, have a look at the research that takes place at our chair. If we have kindled your interest, contact our secretary or your lecturer directly.


News from the Chair
Ferritelogo
2024/09/18

The LKM members involved in the Ferrite.jl development, namely Maximilian Köhler, Abdulaziz Mohamed and Dennis Ogiermann, have given talks on this years FerriteCon at Chalmers University of Technology in Götheborg. Their presentations cover latest development updates on adaptive mesh refinement, local time stepping and efficient solver technology.

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LV Longitudinal Strain Peak
2024/09/18

This year, the LKM was again represented at the CIM2 Symposium with a presentation by Dennis Ogiermann. He shared findings from simulation models on the effects of residual stresses in the left ventricle. The Thunderbolt.jl software framework developed at the chair was used for the studies.

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Ogiermann-Mahajan_Pz1
2024/09/18

Dennis Ogiermann has been selected to give a presentation about a novel Piezo1 ion channel model at the Cardiac Physiome Workshop 2024 in Freiburg.

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2024 06 05 Km Eickhoff-4 Zoom
2024/06/13

Tunnelboring machines wear out during underground operations. Dr. Dennis Wingender examined what this wear looks like and how it can be prevented in his dissertation. For this, he was awarded this year's Gebrüder-Eickhoff Prize.

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ECCOMAS'24, Lissabon
2024/06/12

Last week, Daniel Balzani and Sergey Kozinov presented the Chair of Continuum Mechanics at the ECCOMAS 2024 conference in Lisbon, Portugal. The 9th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Science and Engineering took place from June 3-7 and brought together scientists and engineers from all over the world.

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