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Werkstoffwissenschaften

Prof. Dr. Tribikram Kundu

Fachgebiet:

Medizinische Physik und Technik

Forschungsaufenthalt in Deutschland:

01.07.2010 - 30.09.2010

Profil

Professor Kundu has made significant and original contributions in nondestructive testing techniques for material charaterization by ultrasonics and acoustic microscopy, elastic wave propagation in multilayered solids, faracture machenics, computational mechanics, gemechanics and numerical modeling. Application areas of his research include aerospace materials, civil and structural materials, geomaterials, electronic as well as biological meterials. His research at the University Frankfurt will focus on measurements of mechanical parameters of multilayered structures in biological cells and tissues using acoustic microscopy.

Heimatinstitut

Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
University of Arizona
Bldg. 72
85721 Tucson

Gastinstitut in Deutschland

Dr. Christopher Blase
Fachbereich Biowissenschaften, Institut für Zell- und Neurowissenschaft, Kinematische Zellforschung
Universität Frankfurt am Main
Max von Laue Str. 9
60438 Frankfurt am Main

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Bereiter-Hahn
Fachbereich Biowissenschaften, Institut für Zell- und Neurowissenschaft, Kinematische Zellforschung
Universität Frankfurt am Main
Max von Laue Str. 9
60438 Frankfurt am Main

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Grill
Fakultät für Physik und Geowissenschaften, Institut für Experimentelle Physik II, Abt. Festkörperoptik (FKO)
Universität Leipzig
Linnestr. 5
04103 Leipzig

Prof. Dr. Ricardo A. Lebensohn

Fachgebiet:

Werkstoffwissenschaft und Hüttenwesen

Forschungsaufenthalt in Deutschland:

01.10.2010 - 31.10.2010

Profil

Professor Lebensohn is a leading expert in the mechanics of materials. He has pioneered the field of multiscale modelling of plasticity of crystalline materials, developing sophisticated theories and efficient numerical methods to connect the behavior of single crystals and polycrystalline aggregates. These theories and the simulation tools carefully crafted by Professor Lebensohn are nowadays used by researchers worldwide, both for academic research and industrial applications. Two major achievements should be emphasized in detail: The first one is the development of the viscoplastic self-consistent (VPSC) theory and its numerical implementation, the VPSC numerical code. A more recent one is a formulation based on fast Fourier transforms (FFT) for the prediction of the micromechanical fields that develop in heterogeneous materials deforming in different (elastic, plastic) regimes. During his stay in Germany, Professor Lebensohn will work on the theory of polycrystal mechanics.

Professor Lebensohn is hosted by Professor Dierk Raabe at the Max Planck Institute for Iron Research GmbH in Duesseldorf and by Professor Peter Gumbsch at the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM in Freiburg.

Heimatinstitut

Div. of Material Science & Technology
Los Alamos National Laboratory
MS G755
87545 Los Alamos

Gastinstitut in Deutschland

Prof. Dr. Peter Gumbsch
Fraunhofer-Institut für Werkstoffmechanik (IWM)
Wöhlerstr. 11
79108 Freiburg

Prof. Dr. David Christopher Watts

Fachgebiet:

Keramische Werkstoffe

Forschungsaufenthalt in Deutschland:

01.10.2010 - 30.09.2011

Profil

Prof. Dr. David Christopher Watts – Professor of Biomaterials Science, University of Manchester, School of Dentistry and Photon Science Institute.
Professor Watts is a physicist, well known internationally for his outstanding research on time-dependent structure/properties and multi-scale modeling of oral and craniofacial polymeric biomaterials. During his stay in Germany he plans to extend his studies of model photo-polymerized composite systems for hard tissue repair. Professor Watts is hosted by Prof. Dr. Klaus D. Jandt, Friedrich-Schiller-University in Jena.

Heimatinstitut

School of Dentistry and Photon Science Institute
University of Manchester
Higher Cambridge Street
M15 6FH Manchester

Gastinstitut in Deutschland

Prof. Dr. Klaus D. Jandt
Institut für Materialwissenschaft und Werkstofftechnologie
Universität Jena
Löbdergraben 32
07743 Jena

Hauptfachgebiet

Geisteswissenschaften

Ingenieurwissenschaften

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