Po, G.; Admal, N. C.; Svendsen, B.: Non-local Thermoelasticity Based on Equilibrium Statistical Thermodynamics. Journal of Elasticity 139, pp. 37 - 59 (2020)
Kochmann, J.; Wulfinghoff, S.; Ehle, L.; Mayer, J.; Svendsen, B.: Efficient and accurate two-scale FE-FFT-based prediction of the effective material behavior of elasto-viscoplastic polycrystals. Computational Mechanics 61, pp. 751 - 764 (2018)
Alipour, A.; Wulfinghoff, S.; Bayat, H. R.; Reese, S.; Svendsen, B.: The concept of control points in hybrid discontinuous Galerkin methods—Application to geometrically nonlinear crystal plasticity. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering 114 (5), pp. 557 - 579 (2018)
Svendsen, B.; Shanthraj, P.; Raabe, D.: Finite-deformation phase-field chemomechanics for multiphase, multicomponent solids. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 112, pp. 619 - 636 (2018)
Dusthakar, D. K.; Menzel, A.; Svendsen, B.: Laminate-based modelling of single and polycrystalline ferroelectric materials – application to tetragonal barium titanate. Mechanics of Materials 117, pp. 235 - 254 (2018)
Hütter, M.; Svendsen, B.: Formulation of strongly non-local, non-isothermal dynamics for heterogeneous solids based on the GENERIC with application to phase-field modeling. Materials Theory (1), 4, pp. 1 - 20 (2017)
Mianroodi, J. R.; Hunter, A. G. M.; Beyerlein, I. J.; Svendsen, B.: Theoretical and computational comparison of models for dislocation dissociation and stacking fault/core formation in fcc crystals. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 95, pp. 719 - 741 (2016)
Kochmann, J.; Wulfinghoff, S.; Reese, S.; Mianroodi, J. R.; Svendsen, B.: Two-scale FE–FFT- and phase-field-based computational modeling of bulk microstructural evolution and macroscopic material behavior. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 305, pp. 89 - 110 (2016)
Oxides find broad applications as catalysts or in electronic components, however are generally brittle materials where dislocations are difficult to activate in the covalent rigid lattice. Here, the link between plasticity and fracture is critical for wide-scale application of functional oxide materials.
In this project we study - together with the department of Prof. Neugebauer and Dr. Sandlöbes at RWTH Aachen - the underlying mechanisms that are responsible for the improved room-temperature ductility in Mg–Y alloys compared to pure Mg.
The wide tunability of the fundamental electronic bandgap by size control is a key attribute of semiconductor nanocrystals, enabling applications spanning from biomedical imaging to optoelectronic devices. At finite temperature, exciton-phonon interactions are shown to exhibit a strong impact on this fundamental property.
Enabling a ‘hydrogen economy’ requires developing fuel cells satisfying economic constraints, reasonable operating costs and long-term stability. The fuel cell is an electrochemical device that converts chemical energy into electricity by recombining water from H2 and O2, allowing to generate environmentally-friendly power for e.g. cars or houses…
The project Hydrogen Embrittlement Protection Coating (HEPCO) addresses the critical aspects of hydrogen permeation and embrittlement by developing novel strategies for coating and characterizing hydrogen permeation barrier layers for valves and pumps used for hydrogen storage and transport applications.
Efficient harvesting of sunlight and (photo-)electrochemical conversion into solar fuels is an emerging energy technology with enormous promise. Such emerging technologies depend critically on materials systems, in which the integration of dissimilar components and the internal interfaces that arise between them determine the functionality.
In this project, we work on a generic solution to design advanced high-entropy alloys (HEAs) with enhanced magnetic properties. By overturning the concept of stabilizing solid solutions in HEAs, we propose to render the massive solid solutions metastable and trigger spinodal decomposition. The motivation for starting from the HEA for this approach…