A number of further key projects in the department are jointly pursued by members of different groups including also other departments. The following paragraphs introduce some main current inter-disciplinary research topics in the department.
The design of novel alloys, mainly structural alloys in our case, is a key challenge in the field of materials science for four main reasons.
First, thermomechanical processing for the design of beneficial microstructures is an efficient but limited approach. Including a higher variety of possible solid solution ...
Full-field direct Fast Fourier Crystal Plasticity methods solve the equilibrium and compatibility constraints for anisotropic elastic or elastic–plastic polycrystal and polyphase problems using the Fast Fourier Transformation approach [1]. The discrete Fourier approach renders the governing set of crystal elasticity and plasticity ...
In a number of projects we develop multiscale materials simulation approaches that are based on ab initio models. The electronic and atomistic predictions are conducted in the department of J. Neugebauer and the continuum theoretical and homogenization aspects are pursued in our department [
The design of materials towards their respective limits of strength is one the grand basic aims in mechanical materials science. While the theoretical strength limit is determined (for Whiskers) by the rigid shear of two parallel lattice planes (can be estimated by G/50, where G is shear modulus), real materials contain ...
In the past two years we have further refined the tomographic microstructure and texture analysis method via the 3D EBSD approach [4-8]. This method is realized by fully automated serial sectioning as a combination of a focused ion beam (FIB) system and ...
