🎉🎉 𝐖𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐞 Alexander Jackstadt 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 Lightweight Engineering at FAST, KIT 𝐚𝐧𝐝 IAM-WK: Institute for Applied Materials, KIT 𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞! 🎓 Fiber-reinforced polymers (FRPs) are widely used as a lightweight material of choice due to their outstanding weight-specific mechanical properties such as stiffness and strength. The combination with metal sheets, commonly referred to as fiber metal laminates (FMLs), additionally provides a high resistance and tolerance to damage. As with most lightweight materials, these advantages come at a cost. In particular, the high stiffness and low mass density of such materials or material systems make the resulting structures prone to vibrations as conventional lightweight materials usually offer only negligible material damping. The addition of highly compliant layers consisting of viscoelastic elastomer materials within the otherwise stiff laminate can significantly increase the achievable damping, following the principle of constrained-layer damping (CLD). Such a hybridization then allows for highly damped lightweight laminates, which can be tailored to achieve specific damping capabilities. 📘In particular, in his doctoral thesis, Alex considered hybrid fiber metal elastomer laminates (FMELs), consisting of carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP), aluminum, and different elastomer compounds in various laminates. To better understand their vibrational behavior, even in a damaged state, Alex developed new simulation methods for the analysis of such hybrid laminates in his dissertation: 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝-𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐲𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐝 𝐟𝐢𝐛𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞 🤝We would like to thank Prof. Kay Weidenmann from the university of Augsburg (Universität Augsburg) who served as an external reviewer for this work along with 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟. Luise Kärger from Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT). We would also like to thank the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - German Research Foundation (project no. 431354059) for funding his research. Additionally, we are grateful for the support from Vector Stiftung. 🔬We are thrilled to have Alex support our team at Lightweight Engineering at FAST, KIT for another few months as a postdoc. #doctoraldefense #PhD #Composites #Hybrids #Kraibon #science #polymer
Herzlichen Glückwunsch 🎉
Herzlichen Glückwunsch!!!
Herzlichen Glückwunsch💪🏻
Herzlichen Glückwunsch Alexander Jackstadt !
Congratulations Alexander Jackstadt! It was an honor to work with you!
Congratulations!
Haerbin Institute of Technology - 讲师
2wCongratulations!!! Dr. Ing. Jackstadt! It was an honor to work with you during my research stay in Germany!