Quantification of structural and material failure mechanisms across different length scales: from instability to brittle-ductile transitions

Bifurcation buckling from a membrane stress state

(2012) Herbert A. Mang et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN ENGINEERING

Upscaling quasi-brittle strength of cement paste and mortar: A multi-scale engineering mechanics model

(2011) Bernhard Pichler et al.   CEMENT AND CONCRETE RESEARCH

Generalized self-consistent scheme for upscaling of viscoelastic properties of highly-filled matrix-inclusion composites – Application in the context of multiscale modeling of bituminous mixtures

(2011) Ch. Pichler et al.   COMPOSITES PART B-ENGINEERING

Multiscale fatigue model for bituminous mixtures

(2011) Josef Füssl et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FATIGUE

Bone fibrillogenesis and mineralization: Quantitative analysis and implications for tissue elasticity

(2011) Jenny Vuong et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

The poroelastic role of water in cell walls of the hierarchical composite “softwood”

(2010) Thomas K. Bader et al.   ACTA MECHANICA

Multiscale modeling of elastic properties of cortical bone

(2010) Elham Hamed et al.   ACTA MECHANICA

3D crack analysis in functionally graded materials

(2010) Ch. Zhang et al.   ENGINEERING FRACTURE MECHANICS

Estimation of Influence Tensors for Eigenstressed Multiphase Elastic Media with Nonaligned Inclusion Phases of Arbitrary Ellipsoidal Shape

(2010) B. Pichler et al.   JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING MECHANICS

Poromechanical scale transitions of failure stresses in wood: from the lignin to the spruce level

(2010) T.K. Bader et al.   ZAMM-Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik

Micromechanics of bone tissue-engineering scaffolds, based on resolution error-cleared computer tomography

(2009) Stefan Scheiner et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Numerical multiscale solution strategy for fracturing heterogeneous materials

(2009) Łukasz Kaczmarczyk et al.   COMPUTER METHODS IN APPLIED MECHANICS AND ENGINEERING

Mechanisms of Load-Deformation Behavior of Molecular Collagen in Hydroxyapatite-Tropocollagen Molecular System: Steered Molecular Dynamics Study

(2009) Rahul Bhowmik et al.   JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING MECHANICS

Multiscale Prediction of Viscoelastic Properties of Asphalt Concrete

(2009) Elisabeth Aigner et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS IN CIVIL ENGINEERING

Ductile sliding between mineral crystals followed by rupture of collagen crosslinks: Experimentally supported micromechanical explanation of bone strength

(2009) Andreas Fritsch et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Spherical and acicular representation of hydrates in a micromechanical model for cement paste: prediction of early-age elasticity and strength

(2008) Bernhard Pichler et al.   ACTA MECHANICA

Are linear prebuckling paths and linear stability problems mutually conditional?

(2008) Andreas Steinboeck et al.   COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS

Remarkable postbuckling paths analyzed by means of the consistently linearized eigenproblem

(2008) A. Steinboeck et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN ENGINEERING

Revisiting the generalized self-consistent scheme in composites: Clarification of some aspects and a new formulation

(2008) Y BENVENISTE   JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS

Micromechanical Estimates for Elastic Limit States in Wood Materials, Revealing Nanostructural Failure Mechanisms

(2008) K. Hofstetter et al.   MECHANICS OF ADVANCED MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES

From micron-sized needle-shaped hydrates to meter-sized shotcrete tunnel shells: micromechanical upscaling of stiffness and strength of hydrating shotcrete

(2008) Bernhard Pichler et al.   Acta Geotechnica