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Professor of Engineering Mechanics - Solid Mechanics
Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Björn Kiefer, Ph.D.
Institute of Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics
Lampadiusstr. 4, Room WEI-128
09599 Freiberg
+49 3731 39-2075
Bjoern [dot] Kiefer [at] imfd [dot] tu-freiberg [dot] de (Bjoern[dot]Kiefer[at]imfd[dot]tu-freiberg[dot]de)
Curriculum Vitae
| Time period | Activity |
|---|---|
| 2016 - today | Professor of Engineering Mechanics - Solid Mechanics, Institute of Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany |
| 2010 - 2016 | Junior Professor for the Mechanics of Functional Materials, Institute of Mechanics, TU Dortmund University, Germany |
| 2007 - 2010 | Academic Council, Institute of Mechanics, Chair I, University of Stuttgart, Germany |
| 2002 - 2006 | Research Associate, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University, USA |
| 2002 - 2006 | Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University, USA Doctoral Thesis: A Phenomenological Constitutive Model for Magnetic Shape Memory Alloys Supervisor: Dr Dimitris C. Lagoudas |
| 1996 - 2001 | Diploma Mechanical Engineering/Applied Mechanics, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany Diploma Thesis: Revisit and Characterisation of a Thermomechanically Coupled Constitutive for the Description of Polycrystalline Shape Memory Alloys Supervisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Otto T. Bruhns |
Main areas of work
- Continuum mechanics with geometric and physical nonlinearities
- Constitutive modelling of active and multifunctional materials
- Electro-magnetic-mechanical coupling phenomena in solids
- Computational mechanics of coupled problems
- Micromechanics and multiscale modelling
- Coupling of constitutive mechanics (phase transformations, plasticity, damage)
- Modelling of damage, fracture and fatigue
- Experimental mechanics (material characterisation)
Awards and honours
| 2021 | Elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) |
| 2018 | Invited Professor, ENSAM - Arts et Métiers ParisTech, Campus Metz, Laboratoire d'Etude des Microstructures et de Mécanique des Materiaux (LEM3), Metz, France |
| 2012 | Invited Professor, Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy I, Ecole Supérieure des Sciences et Technologies de l'Ingénieur de Nancy (ESSTIN), France |
| 2011 | Selection for the Global Young Faculty Programme, Mercator Research Center Ruhr |
| 2010 | Selection for the 1. Brazilian-German Frontiers of Science and Technology Symposium (BRAGFOST 2010), Alexander von Humboldt Foundation |
| 2007 | Distinguished Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Doctoral Research, Texas A&M University |
| 2006 | 1st Place SPIE/ASME Best Student Paper Presentation Contest |
| 2006 | Induction into the Pinnacle Academic Honor Society |
| 2003 | Induction into the Academic Honor Society Phi Kappa Phi |
| 1999 | DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Scholarship for Foreign Studies at Texas A&M University |
Teaching
- Continuum Mechanics
- Higher Strength of Materials
- Plasticity
- Technical Mechanics A - Statics
- Technical Mechanics B - Strength of Materials I
- Technical Mechanics B - Strength of Materials II
- Material Mechanics
Further training
- An Introduction to the Mechanics of Functional Materials with a Particular Focus on Shape Memory Alloys, COMMAS Summer School, University of Stuttgart
- An Introduction to the Modeling of Microstructure Evolution in Magnetizable Solids, DFG-FOR 1509 Summer School Modeling, Hischegg, Austria
Other activities
- Treasurer (current), Secretary (2020-2021), Adaptive Structures and Material Systems Branch, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) - Aerospace Division, elected member since 11/2011.
- Elected member, Technical Committees: (i) Active and Multifunctional Materials, (ii) Adaptive Systems Dynamics and Controls, ASME-Aerospace Division, ASMS Branch.
- Reviewer: Acta Mater., Acta Mech., Adv. Eng. Mater., Adv. Model. Simul. Eng. Sci., Appl. Math. Model, Arch. Appl. Mech., Comput. Appl. Math., Comput. Mech., Contin. Mech. Thermodyn., Eur. J. Mech. A Solids, GAMM-Mitteilungen, Int. J. Multiscale Com., Int. J. Nonlin. Sci. Num., Int. J. Solids Struct., J. Alloys Compd., J. Eng. Mater.-T. ASME, J. Intell. Mater. Syst. Struct., J. Magn. Magn. Mater., J. Mech. Phys. Solids, J. Supercond. Novel Magn., Materials, Mater. Des., Mater. Res. Express, Mater. Sci. Eng. A, Math. Probl. Eng., Mecchanica, Mech. Mater., Philos. Mag., PAMM, Proc. R. Soc. A, Prod. Eng., Sci. Rep., Smart Mater. Struct.
Publications
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Conference presentations
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Organisation of conferences, seminars and symposia:
- Minisymposium: Mechanics and Physics of Active Materials, 19th U.S. National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Austin, TX, USA, 19-24 June, 2022 (with T. Baxevanis, University of Houston; D. C. Lagoudas, Texas A&M University; S. Rudykh, University of Wisconsin Madison; E. A. Peraza Hernandez, University of California Irvine).
- DGM Advanced Training Seminar: Fracture Mechanics Calculation Methods, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, 15-17 March 2022 (with M. Kuna, U. Zerbst and P. Hübner).
- Symposium 1: Development and Characterization of Multifunctional Materials, ASME 2020, Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems, Irvine, CA, USA, 14-16 September 2020 (with C. Ciocanel, Northern Arizona University and Ji Su, NASA), converted to virtual format.
- Section 3: Damage and Fracture Mechanics, 91st GAMM Annual Meeting 2020, Kassel, 16-20 March 2020 (with M. Kästner, TU Dresden), moved to 16-20. March 2020, virtual format.
- Symposium 1: Development and Characterization of Multifunctional Materials, ASME 2019, Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems, Louisville, KY, USA, 09-11 September 2019 (with C. Ciocanel, Northern Arizona University and Ji Su, NASA).
- Minisymposium 1106: Computational Mechanics for Smart Materials: Modeling, Simulation and Experimental Validation, 15th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Austin, TX, USA, 28 July-1 August, 2019 (with A. Ricoeur, S. Lange, University of Kassel).
- DGM-Fortbildungsseminar: Bruchmechanische Berechnungsmethoden, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, 13-15 March 2019 (with M. Kuna, U. Zerbst and P. Hübner).
- Minisymposium: Smart Materials Across the Scales: Modeling, Experiment and Simulation, 13th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, New York City, USA, 22-27 July, 2018 (with A. Ricoeur, S. Lange, University of Kassel; M.-A. Keip, University of Stuttgart)
- DGM-Fortbildungsseminar: Bruchmechanische Berechnungsmethoden, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, 14-16 March 2018 (with M. Kuna, U. Zerbst and P. Hübner).
- Section 3: Damage and Fracture Mechanics, 89th GAMM Annual Meeting 2018, Munich, Germany, 19-23 March, 2018 (with C. Linder, Stanford University)
- 3rd Seminar on Ferroic Functional Materials & 13th International Workshop on Direct and Inverse Problems in Piezoelectricity, Kassel, Germany, 4-6 October, 2017 (with A. Ricoeur, University of Kassel)
- Symposium 3: Modeling, Dynamics, and Control of Adaptive Systems, ASME 2015 Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems, Colorado Springs, CO, USA, 21-23 September, 2015 (with co-chair U. Marschner, TU Dresden)
- Best Student Paper Competition, ASME 2015 Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems, Colorado Springs, CO, USA, 21-23 September, 2015 (with chair H. Feigenbaum, Northern Arizona University, USA)
- Minisymposium: Multi-scale Modeling of Ferroic Functional Materials, 86th GAMM Annual Meeting, Lecce, Italy, 23-27 March, 2015 (with M.-A. Keip, University of Stuttgart, J. Schröder, University of Duisburg-Essen, and B. Svendsen, RWTH Aachen)
- Best Student Paper Competition, ASME 2014 Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems, Newport, RI, USA, 15-17 September, 2014
- Symposium 3: Modeling, Dynamics, and Control of Adaptive Systems, ASME 2014 Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems, Newport, RI, USA, 15-17 September 2014 (chair J.-H. Koo, Miami University, USA, co-chair U. Marschner, TU Dresden)
- Best Student Paper Competition, ASME 2013 Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS), Salt Lake City, NV, USA, 19-21 September, 2013 (with co-chair H. Feigenbaum, Northern Arizona University, USA)
- Symposium 3: Modeling, Dynamics, and Control of Adaptive Systems, ASME 2013 Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS), Snowbird, NV, USA, 19-21 September, 2013 (with chair E. Dragoni, Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy, co-chair J.-H. Koo, Miami University, USA)
- Symposium: Incentive systems - A way to improve teaching? Ruhr Universität Bochum, 4 December, 2012 (with GYF-AG Lehren und Lernen im Hochschulraum Ruhr)
- 1st Seminar on Ferroic Functional Materials, TU Dortmund, 21-22 November, 2012 (with A. Menzel and T. Bartel, TU Dortmund)
- Minisymposium: Computational Modeling of Electromagnetic Functional Materials, 4th GACM Colloquium on Computational Mechanics, Dresden, Germany, 31 August-2 September, 2011 (with D. Rosato, University of Stuttgart)
- Section 8: Multiscales and Homogenization, GAMM Annual Meeting 2009, Gdansk, Poland, 9-13 February, 2009 (with S. Stupkiewicz, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research (IPPT), Warsaw, Poland)
- 2nd GAMM-Seminar on Multiscale Material Modeling, University of Stuttgart, 11-12 July, 2008 (with C. Miehe, University of Stuttgart)