Dehm, G.: Mechanische Eigenschaften in kleinen Dimensionen. Lecture: Vorlesung, SS 2013, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany, May 06, 2013 - June 24, 2013
Brognara, A.: Design of ZrCu thin film metallic glasses with tailored mechanical properties through control of composition and nanostructure. Dissertation, RUB Bochum, Bochum, Germany (2025)
Hosseinabadi, R.: Dislocation transmission through coherent and incoherent twin boundaries in copper at the micron scale. Dissertation, Ruhr University Bochum (2024)
Patil, P.: Influence of plastic anisotropy on the deformation behaviour of Austenitic stainless-steel during single micro-asperity wear. Dissertation, Ruhr-Uiversität-Bochum (2023)
Rao, J.: Hydrogen effects on the mechanical behaviour of FeCr alloys investigated by in-situ nanoindentation. Dissertation, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (2023)
Jentner, R.: Phase identification and micromechanical characterization of an advanced high-strength low-alloy steel. Dissertation, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (2023)
Ahmad, S.: Fundamental investigation of the atomic structures of [111] tilt grain boundaries, their defects and segregation behaviour in pure and alloyed Al. Dissertation, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (2023)
Oellers, T.: Development of combinatorial methods to tailor electrical and mechanical properties of Cu-based thin-film structures. Dissertation, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (2022)
Distl, B.: Phase equilibria and phase transformations of Ti–Al–X (X=Nb, Mo, W) alloys for high-temperature structural applications between 700 and 1300 °C. Dissertation, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Fakultät für Maschinenbau, Germany (2022)
Wolff-Goodrich, S.: Development of AlCrFeNiTi Compositionally Complex Alloys for High Temperature Structural Applications. Dissertation, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (2021)
Tian, C.: On the damage initiation in dual phase steels: Quantitative insights from in situ micromechanics. Dissertation, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (2021)
Max Planck scientists design a process that merges metal extraction, alloying and processing into one single, eco-friendly step. Their results are now published in the journal Nature.
Scientists of the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung pioneer new machine learning model for corrosion-resistant alloy design. Their results are now published in the journal Science Advances
We simulate the ionization contrast in field ion microscopy arising from the electronic structure of the imaged surface. For this DFT calculations of the electrified surface are combined with the Tersoff-Hamann approximation to electron tunneling. The approach allows to explain the chemical contrast observed for NiRe alloys.
Decarbonisation of the steel production to a hydrogen-based metallurgy is one of the key steps towards a sustainable economy. While still at the beginning of this transformation process, with multiple possible processing routes on different technological readiness, we conduct research into the related fundamental scientific questions at the MPIE.
About 90% of all mechanical service failures are caused by fatigue. Avoiding fatigue failure requires addressing the wide knowledge gap regarding the micromechanical processes governing damage under cyclic loading, which may be fundamentally different from that under static loading. This is particularly true for deformation-induced martensitic…
Here the focus lies on investigating the temperature dependent deformation of material interfaces down to the individual microstructural length-scales, such as grain/phase boundaries or hetero-interfaces, to understand brittle-ductile transitions in deformation and the role of chemistry or crystallography on it.
It is very challenging to simulate within DFT extreme electric fields (a few 1010 V/m) at a surface, e.g. for studying field evaporation, the key mechanism in atom probe tomography (APT). We have developed a straight-forward scheme to incorporate an ideal plate counter-electrode in a nominally charged repeated-slab calculation by means of a generalized dipole correction of the standard electrostatic potential obtained from fully periodic FFT.
Magnetic materials enable the electrification of transport, communication, energy, and manufacturing. They serve for instance as hard magnets in electrical motors or as soft magnets in transformers. Their remanence, coercivity, and hysteresis losses determine the efficiency of devices that are urgently needed for enabling society and economy to use…