Fabritius, H.; Sachs, C.; Romano, P.; Raabe, D.: Influence of structural principles on the mechanics of a biological fiber-based composite material with hierarchical organization: The exoskeleton of the lobster Homarus americanus. Advanced Materials 21, pp. 391 - 400 (2009)
Sachs, C.; Fabritius, H.; Raabe, D.: Influence of the microstructure on deformation anisotropy of mineralized cuticle from the lobster Homarus americanus. Journal of Structural Biology 161, pp. 120 - 132 (2008)
Sachs, C.; Fabritius, H.; Raabe, D.: Hardness and elastic properties of dehydrated cuticle from the lobster Homarus americanus obtained by nanoindentation. Journal of Material Research 21 (8), pp. 1987 - 1995 (2006)
Raabe, D.; Romano, P.; Sachs, C.; Fabritius, H.; Al-Sawalmih, A.; Yi, S. B.; Servos, G.; Hartwig, H. G.: Microstructure and crystallographic texture of the chitin-protein network in the biological composite material of the exoskeleton of the lobster Homarus americanus. Materials Science and Engineering A 421, pp. 143 - 153 (2006)
Sachs, C.; Fabritius, H.; Raabe, D.: Experimental investigation of the elastic-plastic deformation of mineralized lobster cuticle by digital image correlation. Journal of Structural Biology 155, pp. 409 - 425 (2006)
Raabe, D.; Romano, P.; Al-Sawalmih, A.; Sachs, C.; Servos, G.; Hartwig, H. G.: Mesostructure of the Exoskeleton of the Lobster Homarus Americanus. Mater. Res. Soc. Sympos. Proc. 874, pp. 155 - 160 (2005)
Raabe, D.; Romano, P.; Sachs, C.; Al-Sawalmih, A.; Brokmeier, H. G.; Yi, S. B.; Servos, G.; Hartwig, H. G.: Discovery of a honeycomb structure in the twisted plywood patterns of fibrous biological nano-composite tissue. Journal of Crystal Growth 283, 1-2, pp. 1 - 7 (2005)
Raabe, D.; Sachs, C.; Romano, P.: The crustacean exoskeleton as an example of a structurally and mechanically graded biological nanocomposite material. Acta Materialia 53, pp. 4281 - 4292 (2005)
Nikolov, S.; Sachs, C.; Fabritius, H.; Raabe, D.; Petrov, M.; Friak, M.; Neugebauer, J.; Lymperakis, L.; Ma, D.: Hierarchical modeling of the mechanical properties of lobster cuticle from nano‐ up to macroscale: The influence of the mineral content and the microstructure. In: Proceedings of MMM 2008 "Computational Modeling of biological and soft condensed matter systems", pp. 667 - 670. 4th International Conference on Multiscale Materials Modeling, Tallahassee, FL, USA, October 27, 2008 - October 31, 2008. Dep. of Scientific Computing, Florida State University, USA (2008)
Raabe, D.; Al-Sawalmih, A.; Romano, P.; Sachs, C.; Brokmeier, H. G.; Yi, S. B.; Servos, G.; Hartwig, H. G.: Structure and crystallographic texture of arthropod bio-composites. In: Materials Science Forum, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Textures of Materials ICOTOM 14, pp. 1665 - 1674. 14th International Conference on Textures of Materials ICOTOM 14, Leuven, Belgium, July 11, 2005 - July 15, 2005. Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland (2005)
Raabe, D.; Sachs, C.: Mesostructure of the Exoskeleton of the Lobster Homarus Americanus. Mater. Res. Soc. Sympos. Proc. 874, L.5.3, pp. 161 - 166 (2005)
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 will aim at developing MEMS based nanoforce sensors with capacitive sensing capabilities. The nanoforce sensors will be further incorporated with in situ SEM and TEM small scale testing systems, for allowing simultaneous visualization of the deformation process during mechanical tests
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.
Hydrogen embrittlement affects high-strength ferrite/martensite dual-phase (DP) steels. The associated micromechanisms which lead to failure have not been fully clarified yet. Here we present a quantitative micromechanical analysis of the microstructural damage phenomena in a model DP steel in the presence of hydrogen.
Thermo-chemo-mechanical interactions due to thermally activated and/or mechanically induced processes govern the constitutive behaviour of metallic alloys during production and in service. Understanding these mechanisms and their influence on the material behaviour is of very high relevance for designing new alloys and corresponding…
Nickel-based alloys are a particularly interesting class of materials due to their specific properties such as high-temperature strength, low-temperature ductility and toughness, oxidation resistance, hot-corrosion resistance, and weldability, becoming potential candidates for high-performance components that require corrosion resistance and good…
Understanding hydrogen-assisted embrittlement of advanced structural materials is essential for enabling future hydrogen-based energy industries. A crucially important phenomenon in this context is the delayed fracture in high-strength structural materials. Factors affecting the hydrogen embrittlement are the hydrogen content,...
Understanding hydrogen-assisted embrittlement of advanced high-strength steels is decisive for their application in automotive industry. Ab initio simulations have been employed in studying the hydrogen trapping of Cr/Mn containing iron carbides and the implication for hydrogen embrittlement.
Within this project, we will investigate the micromechanical properties of STO materials with low and higher content of dislocations at a wide range of strain rates (0.001/s-1000/s). Oxide ceramics have increasing importance as superconductors and their dislocation-based electrical functionalities that will affect these electrical properties. Hence…