Collaborations

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Fabrice Detrez

Equipe de Mécanique, Université Gustave Eiffel

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Fabrice Detrez’ research interests

  • multi physics coupling
  • chemical-mechanical coupling
  • homogenization
  • numerical methods
  • soft materials

Collaboration 

  • French-German research project “BIO ART ” on bio-based polymers, starting October 2023
  • minisymposium “Simulations of Polymers and Polymer Composites” at ECCOMAS, Oslo, 2022
  • minisymposium “Multiscale Mechanics of Polymers and Polymer Composites” at WCCM, Paris, 2020
  • minisymposium “Multiscale Modeling of Polymers” at ICoNSoM (International Conference on Nonlinear Solid Mechanics), Rome, 2019

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Ajeet Kumar

Ajeet Kumar’s research interests

  • multiscale modeling of crystalline materials – atomistic to continuum bridging
  • modeling and simulation of carbon nanotubes
  • modeling self-folding/ intertwining of rod like structures and elastic bodies
  • thermoelasticity and plasticity of nanorods

Joint Teaching Activities at IIT Delhi

  • “multiscale and Multiphysics Challenges in Continuum Mechanics” (2017),
  • “implementation of Visco-Elasticity with deal.ii” (2019),
  • “implementation of Visco-Plasticity with deal.ii” (planned)

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Florian Müller-Plathe’s research interests

  • polymers and other (bio)macromolecules in the bulk, in solution and at interfaces
  • polymeric materials, (nano)composites, functional and smart materials
  • simple and complex liquids, including systems far from equilibrium

Collaboration

  • past collaboration: „NanoModel“ – EU-funded project
  • continued collaboration on improving the Capriccio method
  • several joint publications

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Université Paris Est Créteil (UPEC)

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Agustín Ríos de Anda

Agustín Ríos de Anda’s research interests

  • Condensed polymers
  • Bio-sourced thermoset and thermoplastic functional composites
  • Investigation of the relationship between the structure, the morphology, the molecular mobility and the thermomechanical properties of polymers by combining multiscale experimental techniques (DMA, Mechanical Testing, Modulated DSC, Dielectric Spectroscopy, Solid State NMR)

Collaboration

  • French-German research project “BIO ART ” on bio-based polymers, starting October 2023

University of Bayreuth

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Holger Ruckdäschel

Holger Ruckdäschel’s research interests

  • Cellular polymers and foams
  • Composites & thermoset resins
  • Functionalized polymers and blends
  • Recycling and sustainability
  • Digitalization in materials science
  • Additive manufacturing
  • Material testing / fatigue

Collaboration

  • French-German research project “BIO ART ” on bio-based polymers, starting October 2023

Ana-Sunčana Smith is principal advisor in the Research Training Group GRK 2423 FRASCAL (frascal.research.fau.de)

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Picture: Giulia Iannicelli

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Project P12 „Development of a Quantum-to-Continuum Multiscale Model for Fracture of Thermosets“

Ana-Sunčana Smith’s research interests

  • materials sciences
  • statistical physics and biophysics of systems with reduced dimensionality
  • analytic and numerical modelling, commercial and in house developed simulation tools
  • experimental data analysis, image processing

Collaboration

  • addressing fracture mechanisms in molecular dynamics simulations
  • developing a quantum-to-continuum model of thermoset fracture

PULS group (Theoretical Physics)

Christian R. Wick is postdoctoral researcher in the Research Training Group GRK 2423 FRASCAL (frascal.research.fau.de)

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Picture: Giulia Iannicelli

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Project P12 „Development of a Quantum-to-Continuum Multiscale Model for Fracture of Thermosets“

Christian R. Wick’s research interests

  • multiscale modelling of fracture in epoxy resins
  • computational Mechanochemistry
  • multiscale modelling of SILP catalysis
  • water-gas shift reaction
  • vitamin B12 dependent enzymatic reactions
  • molecular oxygen sensing

Collaboration

  • addressing fracture mechanisms in molecular dynamics simulations
  • developing a quantum-to-continuum model of thermoset fracture

PULS group (Theoretical Physics)