Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Daniel Balzani
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.
Chair of Continuum Mechanics,
ICFW 03/741,
Universitätsstraße 150,
44801 Bochum
✆: +49 234 32-26048
✉: sekretariat@lkm.rub.de
We are delighted to announce that Prince Henry Serrao successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled “Mixed FEM Computational Modeling of Flexoelectricity in Piezo- and Ferroelectric Materials with Emphasis on Fracture” on 10 July 2026 at Ruhr University Bochum.
Prof. Daniel Balzani gave a plenary lecture entitled “Homogenization of damaged microstructures: Convexification as a local alternative to nonlocal approaches for mesh-independence?” at the 4th International Conference on Nonlinear Solid Mechanics (ICoNSoM 2026) in Alghero, Italy.
Prof. Daniel Balzani received the Eugenio Beltrami Senior Scientist Prize awarded by the Center of Mathematics and Mechanics of Complex Systems, Aquila, Italy. Further information on the award can be found here (http://memocscenter.univaq.it/memocs/en/attivita/the-eugenio-beltrami-senior-scientist-prize/).
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