Course Programme

Teaching activities of our chair focus on the foundations of  Engineering Mechanics. Various courses are taught for different degree programmes, e.g. in Mechanical, Electrical and Transport Engineering, Materials Science, Processes and Natural, Renewable Energy Systems and in Textile Technology. Beyond the solution of fundamental problems of Engineering Sciences, students learn to critically assess their results and they familiarise with technical terms of Engineering Mechanics in the Undergraduate Courses:

• Statics
• Strength of Materials 1
• Strength of Materials 2
• Statics/Strength of Materials (TM 1)   
• Kinematics/Kinetics (TM 2)

Graduate courses of various programmes, e.g. in the interdisciplinary field Simulation Methods in Mechanical Engineering, illucidate theoretical and numerical aspects of continuum modelling. In particular, theory of materials, the formulation of coupled boundary value problems, and the modelling on different scales are addressed. Emphasis is also put on theory and applications of numerical methods, which prove to be indispensible for research and industrial developed. Current developments regarding novel discretisation techniques, e.g. the extended FEM (XFEM), Isogeometric Analysis (IGA) and phase-field methods have been included in both - lectures and tutorials:

• Continuum Mechanics
• Inelastic and electro-magnetic boundary value problems
• Finite-Element-Method
• Numerical methods in Solid Mechanics
• Problem specific discretisation techniques
• Boundary and Eigenvalue problems
• Tensor analysis
• Experimental Mechanics
• Optical measuring techniques

Please, get involved in our current research projects through a student research project.