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
Within this project, we will use a green laser beam source based selective melting to fabricate full dense copper architectures. The focus will be on identifying the process parameter-microstructure-mechanical property relationships in 3-dimensional copper lattice architectures, under both quasi-static and dynamic loading conditions.
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.
The fracture toughness of AuXSnY intermetallic compounds is measured as it is crucial for the reliability of electronic chips in industrial applications.
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.