📋 Tender Overview
Configurational Mechanics Of Soft Materials: Revolutionising Geometrically Nonlinear Fracture
Enhanced Understanding Of ‘Soft Fracture’ Leads To Improved Designshard Materials Such As Metals, Plastics And Composites Have Been The Mainstay Of Device Development. As Soft Materials Increasingly Pervade Areas Like Tissue Engineering, Soft Robotics And Stretchable Electronics, The Need Has Arisen To Better Characterise Their Geometrically Non-Linear Fracture Mechanics, Given That They Allow For Extremely Large Deformations. The Erc-Funded Softfrac Project Will Address This Need Via A Combined Theoretical, Computational And Experimental Approach. Exploiting The Development Of ‘Configurational Mechanics’, Softfrac Will Develop A Transformational Configurational Fracture Theory And Model. Experimental Study Of The Geometrically Nonlinear Fracture Of Soft Materials Will Further Inform The Model And Lead To Rational And Improved Design Of Soft Materials To Minimise Fracture.
Funded Under
European Research Council (Erc)
Total Cost
€ 2 494 538,00
Eu Contribution
€ 2 494 538,00
Coordinated By
Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg
Germany
