Bachelor’s thesis or Master’s thesis
Investigation of the influence of morphology on the macroscopic mechanical material properties of syntactic elastomer foam materials by means of numerical investigations at the micro level.
© IKVThe work is related to this research project:
The aim of the research project “Resource-efficient lightweight construction in elastomer applications” is to optimize elastomer foam materials in order to enable sustainable product development by reducing the use of materials.
Objective:
Conducting numerical parameter studies on existing representative volume models to investigate the significance of individual morphological parameters such as porosity or the shell thickness of the hollow microspheres on the macroscopic material properties.
Your task:
| Tasks for a Bachelor's thesis | Tasks for a Master's thesis |
| Your work includes the execution of numerical simulations according to an experimental design | Your work includes the execution of numerical simulations for different stress conditions |
| Implementation of the material model | calibration of a material model |
| Carrying out the simulations | conducting parameter studies |
| Evaluation and implementation of a regression analysis to assess the influence of individual morphological parameters | Evaluation and implementation of a regression analysis to assess the influence of individual morphological parameters |
| Validation with existing experimental data |
Your profile/preferred degree programs:
- Materials and mechanics
- Simulation methods
- Programming
- Mechanical engineering / industrial engineering, specializing in mechanical engineering
- Computational Engineering Science (CES)
- Simulation Sciences
- Materials science
- Applied Polymer Science (M.Sc.)
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