Winning, M.: Grain Boundary Mechanics: Interactions between mechanical stresses and grain boundaries - New approaches to microstructure control and materials design –. Habilitation, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany (2007)
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…
The full potential of energy materials can only be exploited if the interplay between mechanics and chemistry at the interfaces is well known. This leads to more sustainable and efficient energy solutions.