New Achievements in Mechanics A Tribute to Klaus Peter Herrmann

This book presents various solutions modeling in the performance and behavior of advanced materials and engineering structures. In this book, famous scientists in the field of materials mechanics share their knowledge in honor of the late Professor of Mechanics Klaus-Peter Herrmann from the University of Paderborn. This book discusses in particular topics like fracture and damage mechanics, numerical mathematics and computational simulations, and mechanics and thermodynamics of advanced materials.

The Scientific Work of K. P. Herrmann.- Closed-form analysis and assessment of the free-edge effect in angle-ply laminates.- Modeling the Microstructure of Polycrystalline Sn-Ag-Cu Solders.- Thermomechanical analysis of sandwich pipes with graded core.- M-integral and energy-release rates: A didactical account.- Optimal Design from Noether’s Viewpoint.- Electrically permeable interface crack with a contact zone in a 1D piezoelectric quasicrystal.- Positive rates predict death rates of Covid-19 locally and worldwide 13 days ahead.- Clouds on a model planet.- Simulation of crack propagation in heterogeneous materials by a fracture phase field.- Momentum and spin balance in an inertial frame obtained by using the concept of images.- On attempts to interpret Maxwell’s equations mechanically – A review.- Warpage Reduction in Additively Manufactured Parts based on Thermomechanical Modelling and a Novel Simulation Strategy for the Laser Scanning.- Numerical strategies to study compressionfailure in brittle foams with 3D realistic microstructures.- A surrogate model for numerical evaluation of elastic properties of particulate composites with rotationally symmetric particles.- Additive Manufacturing and experimental analysis of a beam with a 2D triangular substructure.- Mechanical performance of MEAM polymer under different loading conditions.- An Overview of Methods for the Description of Rotations.- An experimental and numerical exploration of acceleration-induced cavitation in soft gel.

Wolfgang H. Müller graduated with a Diploma in Physics in 1982 and with a Ph.D. in Physical Engineering Science in 1986, both from the Technische Universität in Berlin. In 1997, he finished his habilitation work at the Universität Paderborn and was awarded the Venia Legendi in Technical Mechanics. He has worked for industry as well as in academia for more than thirty years. At present, he is W3-Professor of Continuum Mechanics and Constitutive Theory at the Technische Universität of Berlin. His work received several awards from SMTA, CNRS, and the Senate of Berlin.

Alfons Noe graduated with a Diploma in Mechanical Engineering in 1989 and with a Ph.D. on interfacial fracture mechanics in 1994 under supervision of Klaus-Peter Herrmann, both at University of Paderborn. He was a Postdoctoral Scholar in Aeronautics at the California Institute of Technology. He worked in Defense and Automotive Industry for 13 years. In 2010, he returned to academia and is currently a W2-Professor ofEngineering Mechanics at South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences, Soest, Germany.

Ferdinand Ferber retired from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Paderborn University, Germany. He is an honorary professor at the Technische Universität of Berlin.