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Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Martin Schwab


Project Assistant



  • 2016: Dr.techn. (PhD), Institute of Lightweight Design and Structural Biomechanics, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
  • 2013: Dipl.-Ing. (MSc.) Mechanical Engineering, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
  • 2012: Erasmus Exchange, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
  • 2011: BSc. Mechanical Engineering, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria



    Publications and Presentations

    Schwab M., Pettermann H.E.:
    Modelling and simulation of damage and failure in large composite components subjected to impact loads;
    Composite Structures 158, 208-216, 2016.

    Schwab M., Todt M., Wolfahrt M., Pettermann H.E.:
    Failure Mechanism Based Modelling of Impact on Fabric Reinforced Composite Laminates Based on Shell Elements;
    Composites Science and Technology 128, 131-137, 2016.

    Schwab M., Pettermann H.E.:
    Prediction of the Energy Absorption Behaviour of Large Composite Components Subjected to Impact Loads - Assessment of Individual Mechanisms at Ply Scale;
    in Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Composite Materials, (Ed. K.Drechsler), Paper TUE-2_BIA_3.11-22; Munich, 2016.

    Schwab M., Pettermann H.E.:
    Modelling laminated composites under impact loads;
    in Proceedings of the 24th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (extended Abstract); Montreal, 2016.

    Schwab M., Grabos A., Pettermann H.E.:
    Nonlinear FEM Simulations of a Laminated Textile Composite Component - A Multi Scale Embedding Approach;
    Presentation at mechcomp 2016 - 2nd International Conference on Mechanics of Composites 2016; Porto, 2016.

    Schwab M., Todt M., Pettermann H.E.:
    A Multiscale Modelling Approach for Simulating Impact Damage in Woven Composite Laminates;
    in Proceedings of the 5th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on the Mechanical Response of Composites (Eds. S.R.Hallett, J.J.C.Remmers), 12 pages, Bristol University, Bristol, UK 2015.

    Schwab M., Todt M., Pettermann H.E.:
    Simulation of the Intermediate Velocity Impact Behavior of Woven Composite Laminate Applying Progressive Damage Models for Plies and Interfaces;
    in Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Composite Materials (Eds. O.T.Thomsen, C.Berggreen, B.F.Sørensen), paper ID 4417-4, 11 pages, Copenhagen, Denmark 2015.

    Springer M., Schwab M., Pettermann H.E.:
    Simulation of Ply Damage and Delamination in Multilayer Composites to Predict the Residual Compressive Strength after Impact Loading;
    Presentation at IV International Conference on Computational Modeling of Fracture and Failure of Materials and Structure (CFRAC 2015), Cachan, France 2015.

    Todt M., Schwab M., Pettermann H.E.:
    Accounting for Transverse Shear in Stacked-Shell Models of Layered Composite Structures;
    Presentation at 9th European Solid Mecahnics Conference (ESMC 2015), Madrid, Spain 2015.

    Schwab M., Gager J., Pettermann H.E.:
    Assessing Material Nonlinearities in Large Composite Structures by Predicting Energy Dissipations at the Mesoscale;
    in Proceedings of the 11th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (Eds.: E. Oñate, X. Oliver, A. Huerta), pp. 3691-3702, Barcelona, Spain 2014.

    Schwab M., Todt M., Pettermann H.E.:
    Simulation of Ply Damage and Delamination in Laminated Composites Under Impact Loading;
    Presentation at 8th Workshop on Dynamic Behaviour of Materials and its Applications in Industrial Processes, Warsaw, Poland 2014.

    Gager J., Meindlhumer M., Schwab M., Pettermann H.E.:
    Numerically Predicted Damage and Failure Envelopes of Composites Featuring Nonlinear Material Behavior;
    in Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Composite Materials (Eds. S.V.Hoa, P.Hubert), pp. 2145-2153, BytePress, Toronto, Canada 2013.



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