Current Trends and Open Problems in Computational Mechanics

This Festschrift is dedicated to Professor Dr.-Ing. habil. Peter Wriggers on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Thanks to his high dedication to research, over the years Peter Wriggers has built an international network with renowned experts in the field of computational mechanics. This is proven by the large number of contributions from friends and collaborators as well as former PhD students from all over the world. The diversity of Peter Wriggers network is mirrored by the range of topics that are covered by this book. To name only a few, these include contact mechanics, finite & virtual element technologies, micromechanics, multiscale approaches, fracture mechanics, isogeometric analysis, stochastic methods, meshfree and particle methods. Applications of numerical simulation to specific problems, e.g. Biomechanics and Additive Manufacturing is also covered. The volume intends to present an overview of the state of the art and current trends in computational mechanics for academia and industry.

Fadi Aldakheel, Dr.-Ing. habil., is since August 2017 group leader of the section material modeling and damage mechanics at the Institute of Continuum Mechanics at the Leibniz Universität Hannover LUH. He finished his Ph.D. in 2016 at the Universität Stuttgart Institute for Mechanics in Civil Engineering. His supervisor was the late Prof. Christian Miehe. Thereafter, he worked as a Postdoc and course director of the international master program COMMAS at the Universität Stuttgart. In 2021 he successfully finished the "Habilitation" at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering - LUH under the supervision of Prof. Peter Wriggers. Fadi Aldakheel has co-authored more than 40 papers in peer- reviewed International Journals. He has been awarded numerous awards and grants as principal investigator, among which the Richard-von-Mises Prize in GAMM (Society of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics) and PI in CRC1153 / SPP2020. His research interests are related to modeling of material behaviors, variational principles, computational solid mechanics, structural mechanics, finite/virtual element method, multiphysics and multi-scales problems, machine learning, and experimental validation. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Weißenfels studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Munich. He received his doctorate and habilitation from Leibniz Universität Hannover. After managing the professorship for Mechanics at Technische Universität Braunschweig, he has been Professor for Data-Driven Computational Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Augsburg since 2021. He worked with Prof. Wriggers for more than 10 years during his time at the Leibniz Universität Hannover. His areas of work include the automatic generation of material models and the solution of differential equations using artificial intelligence algorithms. He is also involved in the development of accurate and efficient meshfree methods, the simulation of processes in Additive Manufacturing, and contact mechanics.