Fabritius, H.; Karsten, E. S.; Balasundaram, K.; Hild, S.; Huemer, K.; Raabe, D.: Correlation of structure, composition and local mechanical properties in the dorsal carapace of the edible crab Cancer pagurus. 11, pp. 766 - 776 (2012)
Balasundaram, K.; Cao, Y. P.; Raabe, D.: Investigating the Applicability of the Oliver & Pharr Method to the Nano-Mechanical Characterization of Soft Matter. Gerberich Symposium, 1st International Conference from Nanoparticles and Nanomaterials to Nanodevices and Nanosystems, Halkidiki, Greece (2008)
Balasundaram, K.; Cao, Y. P.; Raabe, D.: Nanomechanics characterization of softmatter using nanoindentation. 11th GLADD Meeting, TU Gent, Belgium (2008)
Balasundaram, K.; Grundmeier, G.; Raabe, D.: Nanomechanics of thin glassy polymer films. 3rd International Indentation Workshop, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK (2007)
Fabritius, H.; Karsten, E. S.; Balasundaram, K.; Hild, S.; Huemer, K.; Raabe, D.: Influence of Structural Organization and Mineral Distribution on the Local Mechanical Properties of Mineralized Cuticle from the Crab Cancer pagurus. Materials Science and Engineering MSE 2010, Darmstadt, Germany (2010)
Balasundaram, K.; Cao, Y. P.; Raabe, D.: Nano-mechanical Characterization of Soft Matter. Materials science Day, Mechanical Engineering Department at Ruhr-University of Bochum, Bochum, Germany (2008)
Hydrogen in aluminium can cause embrittlement and critical failure. However, the behaviour of hydrogen in aluminium was not yet understood. Scientists at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung were able to locate hydrogen inside aluminium’s microstructure and designed strategies to trap the hydrogen atoms inside the microstructure. This can…
This project aims to investigate the influence of grain boundaries on mechanical behavior at ultra-high strain rates and low temperatures. For this micropillar compressions on copper bi-crystals containing different grain boundaries will be performed.
Oxidation and corrosion of noble metals is a fundamental problem of crucial importance in the advancement of the long-term renewable energy concept strategy. In our group we use state-of-the-art electrochemical scanning flow cell (SFC) coupled with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP-MS) setup to address the problem.
In this project we investigate the hydrogen distribution and desorption behavior in an electrochemically hydrogen-charged binary Ni-Nb model alloy. The aim is to study the role of the delta phase in hydrogen embrittlement of the Ni-base alloy 718.
We plan to investigate the rate-dependent tensile properties of 2D materials such as metal thin films and PbMoO4 (PMO) films by using a combination of a novel plan-view FIB based sample lift out method and a MEMS based in situ tensile testing platform inside a TEM.
Hydrogen induced embrittlement of metals is one of the long standing unresolved problems in Materials Science. A hierarchical multiscale approach is used to investigate the underlying atomistic mechanisms.
For understanding the underlying hydrogen embrittlement mechanism in transformation-induced plasticity steels, the process of damage evolution in a model austenite/martensite dual-phase microstructure following hydrogenation was investigated through multi-scale electron channelling contrast imaging and in situ optical microscopy.
We will investigate the electrothermomechanical response of individual metallic nanowires as a function of microstructural interfaces from the growth processes. This will be accomplished using in situ SEM 4-point probe-based electrical resistivity measurements and 2-point probe-based impedance measurements, as a function of mechanical strain and…
The project aims to study corrosion, a detrimental process with an enormous impact on global economy, by combining denstiy-functional theory calculations with thermodynamic concepts.