Nikolov, S.; Petrov, M.; Lymperakis, L.; Friák, M.; Sachs, C.; Fabritius, H.; Neugebauer, J.; Raabe, D.: Extremal stiffness of crustacean cuticle through hierarchical optimization: Theory, modeling, and experiment. 3rd International Conference on Mechanics of Biomaterials & Tissues, multiscale modeling of tissue mechanical properties, Clearwater Beach, FL, USA (2009)
Nikolov, S.; Sachs, C.; Fabritius, H.; Raabe, D.; Petrov, M.; Friák, M.; Neugebauer, J.: Modeling of the mechanical properties of lobster cuticle from ab initio to macroscale: How nature designs multifunctional composites with optimal properties. International Plasticity Conference 2009, Virgin Islands, USA (2009)
Raabe, D.; Sachs, C.; Fabritius, H.; Romano, P.; Raue, L.; Klein, H.; Al-Sawalmih, A.: Crystallographic Textures from the Exoskeleton of the Lobster Homarus Americanus and Calculation of the Mechanical Properties of the Calcite Phase. 15th International Conference on the Textures of Materials (ICOTOM 15), Carnegie Mellon University Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA (2008)
Sachs, C.; Romano, P.; Raue, L.; Fabritius, H.; Klein, H.; Paris, O.; Al-Sawalmih, A.; Fratzl, P.; Wu, X.; Raabe, D.: Crystallographic and topological textures of biological materials and the resulting anisotropy of the mechanical properties. 15th International Conference on the Texture of Materials (ICOTOM 15), Pittsburgh, PA, USA (2008)
Sachs, C.; Yi, S. B.; Raabe, D.: Investigation of the Lattice Strain Evolution in Tension and Compression of Different Phases in the Mineralized Lobster Cuticle. MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA (2008)
Nikolov, S.; Raabe, D.; Sachs, C.; Fabritius, H.: Hierarchical modeling of the mechanical properties of hard biological tissues: Bone and lobster cuticle. MSU conference, MPIE Düsseldorf, Germany (2008)
Fabritius, H.; Sachs, C.; Nikolov, S.; Romano, P.; Hild, S.; Raabe, D.: Wie beeinflussen Struktur und chemische Zusammensetzung auf unterschiedlichen Längenskalen die mechanischen Eigenschaften von biologischen Materialien ? Institute Colloquium, Department of Polymer Science, Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU), Linz, Austria (2008)
International researcher team presents a novel microstructure design strategy for lean medium-manganese steels with optimized properties in the journal Science
In this project we developed a phase-field model capable of describing multi-component and multi-sublattice ordered phases, by directly incorporating the compound energy CALPHAD formalism based on chemical potentials. We investigated the complex compositional pathway for the formation of the η-phase in Al-Zn-Mg-Cu alloys during commercial…
Hydrogen embrittlement (HE) of steel is a great challenge in engineering applications. However, the HE mechanisms are not fully understood. Conventional studies of HE are mostly based on post mortem observations of the microstructure evolution and those results can be misleading due to intermediate H diffusion. Therefore, experiments with a…
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.
Within this project we investigate chemical fluctuations at the nanometre scale in polycrystalline Cu(In,Ga)Se2 and CuInS2 thin-flims used as absorber material in solar cells.