Associate Prof. Heinz Pettermann
Research Unit of Lightweight Design
Function: Associate Professor
Room Number: BE 02 11
email: heinz.pettermann@tuwien.ac.at
phone: +43 1 58801/31719
Office hours: on appointment
About me:
- Dipl.-Ing. Mechanical Engineering, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria, 1993
- Dr. techn., TU Wien, Vienna, Austria, 1997
- Univ.-Doz. for Mechanics of Materials, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria, 2003
Academic Stays Abroad:
- MIT, Cambridge, Mass. (PostDoc)
- University of Seville, Spain
- SISSA, Trieste, Italy
Research:
- Solid mechanics of structures and materials
- Modeling and simulation
- Finite element method
- Analytic and semi-analytic mechanics of materials and structures
- Nonlinear constitutive laws (development and implementation) eg.: elasticity, plasticity, viscosity, damage, fatigue, fracture
- Heterogeneous material (composites, laminates, porous materials)
- Structural mechanics
- Component design, including the mechanic of materials multi-scale approaches: comprehensive consideration over multiple length scales, up to prediction of component failure