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Hikaru Azuma
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Lectures Winter Term 2025/26
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Data-based Materials Modeling
Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) Damping for Smart Miniature Systems
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Continuum Dislocation Dynamics (CDD) theory
Deformation behaviour of Materials with Amorphous Microstructure
Failure and microstructure evolution of foams and cell structures
Institute Seminar
Winter Term 2025/2026
Finite Element Modeling of Bi-directional Origami Microactuator System
Shape Diagram of Body-Centered Cubic Crystals
AI-guided Recognition of Local Patterns in Nanoparticles from Tomographic Images
Summer Term 2025
Simulation Study of Multiple Loading Conditions for Shape Memory Alloy films
Uncovering Hidden Structures in Materials Data: A Study of Two Clustering Algorithms with Dimensionality Reduction
Study of morphological indicators of virtual microstructures for material optimization
Computationally Efficient Torque Estimation in SMA Microactuation Systems: A Neural Network Surrogate Trained on Parametric FEM Data
System Identification of physical chemical model of Li-ion cell using deep learing
Modelling dislocation structures and size effects in deformed bicrystal based on continuum approaches
Winter Term 2024/2025
Shape Memory Alloys and Shape Memory Polymers in Origami-Inspired Self-Bending Micro-Actuators
Tensile fracture and failure properties of porous fuse network
Summer Term 2024
Structural Complexity in Colloidal Self-Assembly
Uncovering Operational Patterns in H2 Electrolyzer Sensor Data
Computational Screening of Doped Transition Metal Dichalcogenides as Electrocatalysts for Nitrogen Reduction Reaction
A new method for robust and reliable classifications with deep neural networks
Winter Term 2023/2024
Summer Term 2023
Illuminating the Fused Filament Process: An Analytical Model and New Approaches to the Nonisothermal Poiseuille-Coette Flow
Parametrization of a phase-field model for ferroelectrics with defects from molecular dynamics data
Prediction of thermodynamic parameters from simulated 2D dendritic morphology via machine learning.
Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator: Design, Manufacturing and Testing.
Bridging Scales - A Coarse-Grained Modeling Framework for Simulating Fracture in Epoxy Resin and Composites
Winter Term 2022/23
An introduction to the nonlocal macro-meso-scale consistent damage model
Summer Term 2022
Discovering Equations from Graph Neural Networks using Symbolic Regression
Analysis of ferroelectrics using molecular dynamics
Fracture surface geometry in 3D hierarchical material adhesion
From Atomic Defects To Turbine Blades: Multiscale Modeling & Informatics Towards Materials By Design For Extreme Conditions
Winter Term 2021/22
Network modelling: examples from computational neuroscience, biomaterial fracture and polymer mechanics
Spectral Signatures of Fault Tolerant Neural Architectures
Automatic design of mechanical metamaterials
Disordered mechanical metamaterials
Summer Term 2021
Brain dynamics and function in large-scale network models
Winter Term 2020/21
Experiments and Modelling of Emerging Energy Materials
Measuring the stability of ecological communities
Spontaneous activity in brain networks
Nanoscopic Robots
Summer Term 2020
Winter Term 2019/20
Modelling uni-axial and cyclic deformation of gradient nano-grained materials
Accelerating High-Resolution Simulations of Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication Contacts
Localization in hierarchical networks: From statistical physics to neuroscience and materials science applications
Model evaluation in tropical rainforests: Spatial correlations and density fluctuations
A beam network model for strength optimization of fibrous materials
Multiscale discrete dislocation dynamics simulation of gradient nano-grained material
Cyclic plasticity of high entropy alloy: experiments, modelling and simulations
Charge transfer and transport in carbon polymers and biopolymers
On the numerical atomistic characterization of interfacial plasticity
Summer Term 2019
Machine learning plastic deformation of crystals
Equivalence of the Burridge-Knopoff train model of earthquakes and the dynamics of driven Edwards-Wilkinson interfaces
From molecular simulation to wave detection in heterogeneous excitable media
Slow and Anomalous Dynamics in Hierarchical Modular models of Brain Networks
FEM Simulation of Dissipation and Damping in Shape Memory Alloys
Winter Term 2018/19
Robustness of hierarchical network organization in models of functional connectivity
Modelling the mechanical behaviour of porous cohesive granular material using discrete elements: Application to snow failure
Nucleation process of earthquakes: Instability, acceleration, and sensitivity to perturbations
Migration mechanisms of faceted vicinal grain boundaries
Molecular dynamics simulation on glass transition temperature of polyimides
From flat sheets to folded geometries: Understanding Origami approaches and simulation models
Beyond classical thermodynamics: dislocation-mediated plasticity
Mechanics of a model cohesive granular medium
Summer Term 2018
Effect of vertical twin boundary on the mechanical properties of bicrystalline copper micropillars
Network Dimension as Damage Indicator in Biosystems
Dislocation mechanism based size-dependent crystal plasticity modeling and simulation of gradient nano-grained copper.
Forecasting catastrophe: Statistical physics approach
On stress and driving force calculation within multi-phase-field models: Applications to martensitic phase transformation and crack propagation in multiphase systems
A Dislocation-based Multiscale modeling of Strength and Ductility of Materials with Gradient Microstructure
Coupled Problems in Constitutive Modeling Across Various Lenght-Scales
Optimization of network structures in view of failure resilience
Winter Term 2017/18
Simulating Biomaterials as Hierarchical Networks
Theoretical study of Electrocardiogram(EKG)
Percolation behaviour study of metal nanoparticle in DLC matrix
Improved Understanding of Plasticity Mechanisms in Metals and Ceramics in Light of Atomic Scale Simulations Results
Introduction to Topological Data Analysis and an application of brain functional networks
Nanoscale strain mapping during in situ deformation in the TEM
A statistical approach to charaterize discrete dislocation data
The effect of platinum nanoparticles on the adhesion behaviour of graphene inter-layers: a molecular dynamics study
Dislocation patterning in a 2D stochastic continuum model
Adiabatic shear banding and fracture during high speed shear cutting: Numerical study
Mesoscale Simulation of Shape Memory Alloy Film Damping
The Role of Damage Diffusion on the Plastic Properties of Amorphous Solids - A Kinetic Monte Carlo Approach
Summer Term 2017
Topological dimension tunes activity patterns in hierarchical modular network models
On the properties of (scale-free) random networks
From multimodal images to connectivity of brain networks in both healthy and pathological conditions
Neutral neural dynamics: a tale about physics, ecology and the brain
Precursor phenomena of creep failure in disordered materials
Skeletal Muscles as Prototypes of Active Materials
Winter Term 2016/17
Phase-field Modeling of Functional Materials
The Capriccio method as a novel technique to couple MD and FE simulations of polymers
Static and Dynamic Friction of hierarchical surfaces
Defect nucleation and mobility in gold nanowires
On the temporal coarse graining in dislocation dynamics
Phase-field models for thermo-magneto-mechanical coupling in shape memory alloys
Microstructure informed constitutive models and SPH crystal plasticity modelling approaches
Summer Term 2016
Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics
Winter Term 2015/16
How resilient are biological networks?
Modelling and Simulation of Self-healing Thermosetting Polymers
Analysis of Shear Band Formation in Metallic Multilayer Nanocomposites using DEM
The Discrete-Continuum Model: Simulation of crystal plasticity in micro- and nano- objects
Summer Term 2015
Comparison of various continuum models of dislocations system
Multiscale modeling of collagen tissue mechanics
Size effects in failure of defected graphene
The relationship between structure and dynamics in complex networks
Deformation in metallic nanomaterials
From mild to wild fluctuations in crystal plasticity, and associated size effects
Curvature effects on the plastic behavior of metals as studied by atomistic simulations
Winter Term 2014/15
Fluid flow, heat transfer and particle distribution in electromagnetic stirrer
Modelling Spatio-Temporal Strain Localization of Snow
Continuum dislocation modelling of cyclic fatigue in the crystal plasticity finite element framework
Strongly heterogeneous continuum dislocation plasticity
Biomechanical modelling bone and bone-implant systems
How (not) to model dislocation patterns
Rounding of phase transitions in cortical networks: the advantages of a low-dimensional brain
Summer Term 2014
Adsorption of water on calcite surface: theoretical study and experiments
Avalanches and glassy relaxation in brain networks
Phase field models and plastic flow
Fragmentation of plastic materials
A Discrete Approach to Describe the Interaction between a Tire Tread and a Snow-Covered Road
Dislocations in bilayer graphene
Higher order continuum modelling of the compressive behaviour of snow
Winter Term 2013/14
Avalanche localization and universality class of amorphous plasticity
G2C2: Geometry, Generalized Continua and Compatibility
Field models of anisotropic dislocation systems
Micromechanics of Geomaterials using Generalised Continuum Models
Monte Carlo Simulation of Creep Deformation of Amorphous Materials
Modelling of materials with random microstructure
Snow Fracture and Slab Avalanche Release - A Case Study
Avalanche statistics in disordered visco-elastic interfaces
Summer Term 2013
Continuum Modelling and Simulation of Strain Ageing Phenomena in Metallic Alloys
Multiscale Simulation of Concrete
Higher order alignment tensors in continuum dislocation dynamics
Modeling the Kinetics of Annealing - a Case of Freestyle Racing
Bond order potentials for elements and compound
Atomistic input to Discrete Dislocation Dynamics
Winter Term 2012/13
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