Modeling of Damage Processes
Young Women Scientists' Group
Head:Dorothee Knees, Christiane Kraus
Coworkers:
Gonca Aki, Jens André Griepentrog, Hauke Hanke, Christian Heinemann, Rüdiger Müller
Secretary:
Olga Kuphal
The Group is working on the modeling, analysis and simulation of damage processes.
Highlights
International Workshop on Phase Separation, Damage and Fracture
WIAS Berlin, September 21 - 23, 2011
Aims
Damage phenomena take place on very different temporal and spatial scales. The aim of the Group is to derive and analyze effective, macroscopic damage and fracture models, where the interplay between the different scales is justified in a mathematically rigorous way. For the description of these multi-scale problems, sharp interface models and phase field models are coupled with elasticity and effective models are derived via homogenization techniques and methods from geometric measure theory.
micro model ↔ damage model ↔ macro model
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