Experimental methods deal with off-resonance actuation of piezoceramics. Modeling methods include micromechanical discrete element and resistor network methods, mesoscopic phase-field modeling and macroscopic multiphysical continuum modeling including geometrical and physical nonlinear continuum mechanics.

Ongoing projects as part of coordinated activities

- HiBRAIN: Holistic method of a combined data- and model-based Electrode design supported by artificial intelligence (https://www.hsu-hh.de/am/hibrain)

- SiMET: Simulation of Mechanical, Electrical/Electrochemical and Thermal Processes in Lithium Ion Batteries (https://www.simet.kit.edu/), DFG GRK 2218

- POLiS: Post Lithium Energy Storage (https://www.postlithiumstorage.org/en/), EXC 2154

- FUSION: The KIT Nuclear Fusion Programme (https://www.fusion.kit.edu/english/)

Selected past projects

- Understanding size and interface dependent anisotropic thermal conduction in correlated multilayer structures, DFG SPP 1386

- Experimental Investigation of Strain Distributions and Polarization in Lead-based and Lead-free Ferroelec-trics, CSC

- COMFEM: Computer Based Multiscale Modeling for the Virtual Development of Polycrystalline Ferroelectric Materials, BMBF

- Constitutive material law for piezoelectric materials including ferroelectric and ferroelastic behavior, COMET K2

- HiKoMat: Development of Hierarchically Structured Materials for Electrochemical Energy Storage (https://hikomat.iam.kit.edu/), BMWi

- ConTraGrad: Converse Transduction in the Presence of Strong Electrical Field Gradients in Ferroelectrics, DFG

- Tailoring the Electromechanical Behavior of Lead-Free Composite Ferroelectrics – The Influence of Electrical Conductivity, DFG

- Understanding Coffee-ring Effect of Direct Inkjet Printing Using Coupled Discrete Element Method and Computational Fluid Dynamics, CSC