• Development of thermomechanically coupled material models for metals and polymers.
• Establishing a Thermoviscoplasticity model for metals, which captures the material behaviour over wide temperature ranges, such as thermal softening effects.
• Development of a Thermomechanical model for polymers which efficiently transforms basic mechanisms form the chain level to continuum level.
• Implementation into a large deformation finite element formulation to simulate inhomogeneous boundary value problems.
• Special treatment within the finite element formulation on the issues related to thermal softening.
• Establishing modern finite element tools such as automatic differentiation for coupled problems

Main supervisor: Andreas Menzel
Assistant supervisor: Ralf Denzer & Matti Ristinmaa

Teaching assistant in The Finite Element method (for M), spring 2018