Bachelor’s or Master’s thesis on the numerical investigation of the influence of morphological parameters on the stress state in elastomer foam materials.
The topic of the thesis is the investigation of the influence of morphology on the macroscopic mechanical material properties of syntactic elastomer foam materials through numerical studies at the micro level. The goal of your work is to predict the effects of foam morphology.
© 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:
| For a Bachelor's thesis, you will work on the following task: For a Master's thesis, you will also work on the following task: |
| Your work will involve carrying out numerical simulations according to an experimental design. Your work involves carrying out numerical simulations for various stress conditions. |
| Implementation of the material model Calibration of a material model |
| Carrying out the simulations Carrying out 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:
- You are interested in: Materials and mechanics, simulation methods and programming
- You are studying: Mechanical Engineering / Industrial Engineering Mechanical Engineering, Computational Engineering Science (CES), Simulation Sciences or Materials Science at RWTH Aachen University or Applied Polymer Science (M.Sc.) at FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences