Sachs, C.; Fabritius, H.; Pitsch, F.; Raabe, D.: Nanoindentation as tool to investigate micro-mechanical properties in the hierarchical structure of biological materials. MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, USA (2007)
Nikolov, S.; Sachs, C.; Counts, W. A.; Fabritius, H.; Raabe, D.: Modeling of the Mechanical Behavior of Bone at Submicron Scale through Mean-Field Homogenization. European Congress and Exhibition on Advanced Materials and Processes (EUROMAT 2007), Nürnberg, Germany (2007)
Sachs, C.; Fabritius, H.; Nikolov, S.; Raabe, D.: Influence of structural principles on the mechanics and efficiency of different biological materials using lobster cuticle as a model material. DPG Spring Meeting, Regensburg, Germany (2007)
Nikolov, S.; Sachs, C.; Fabritius, H.; Raabe, D.: Microstructure and micromechanics of hard biological tissues: From lobster cuticle to human bone. Seminar talk at Université Catholique de Louvain, Dept. of Applied Sciences, Louvain, Belgium (2007)
Fabritius, H.; Sachs, C.; Raabe, D.: Influence of structural principles on the mechanics and efficiency of different biological materials using lobster cuticle as a model material. Second International Conference on Mechanics of Biomaterials & Tissues (ICMBT 2007), Lihue, HI, USA (2007)
Sachs, C.; Fabritius, H.; Raabe, D.: Mechanical Properties of the Lobster Cuticle Investigated by Bending Tests and Digital Image Correlation. MRS Fall Conference, Boston, MA, USA (2006)
Sachs, C.; Fabritius, H.; Romano, P.; Raabe, D.: Viscoelastic Behavior of Lobster Cuticle as a Function of Mineralization Grade. MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, USA (2005)
Fabritius, H.; Romano, P.; Sachs, C.; Al-Sawalmih, A.; Raabe, D.: Arthropod cuticle as an example for bio-composite materials with a strong hierarchical order from the nano- to the macro-level of organization. MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, USA (2005)
Sachs, C.: Elastic-plastic behavior of the lobster cuticle. Organized by: GOM – Gesellschaft für Optische Messtechnik GmbH, Braunschweig, Germany (2005)
Raabe, D.; Romano, P.; Al-Sawalmih, A.; Sachs, C.; Servos, G.; Hartwig, H. G.: Microstructure and Mesostructure of the exoskeleton of the lobster homarus americanus. MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA (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…
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.
Smaller is stronger” is well known in micromechanics, but the properties far from the quasi-static regime and the nominal temperatures remain unexplored. This research will bridge this gap on how materials behave under the extreme conditions of strain rate and temperature, to enhance fundamental understanding of their deformation mechanisms. The…
Biological materials in nature have a lot to teach us when in comes to creating tough bio-inspired designs. This project aims to explore the unknown impact mitigation mechanisms of the muskox head (ovibus moschatus) at several length scales and use this gained knowledge to develop a novel mesoscale (10 µm to 1000 µm) metamaterial that can mimic the…
Microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC) of iron by marine sulfate reducing bacteria (SRB) is studied electrochemically and surfaces of corroded samples have been investigated in a long-term project.
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 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.
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.