Faculty of Engineering Sciences
Department of Basic Sciences in Engineering Sciences
Unit of Strength of Materials and
Structural Analysis
Technikerstraße 13 / 4th floor
6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Festigkeitslehre@uibk.ac.at
phone: +43 512 507 61501
Office hours:
Monday – Friday 08:30 – 11:30 (on appointment)
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The activities of the unit focus on teaching and both basic and applied research in the fields of strength of materials and structural analysis and related numerical methods in the areas of Computational Mechanics.
The main emphasis is on the development and the application of models for the numerical simulation of the nonlinear load carrying behavior of structures and the validation of numerical models by experimental methods.
The Unit of Strength of Materials and Structural Analysis
- is a member of the testing laboratory TVFA (Technische Versuchs- und Forschungsanstalt) of the Faculty of Engineering Sciences
- it collaborates with the Research Center Computational Engineering, being one of four research centers of the Faculty of Engineering Sciences
- it works in the Research Area Scientific Computing
- it participates in the Doctoral Programme Computational Interdisciplinary Modelling (DK CIM). The latter is a joint doctorate programme, which is supported by several members of the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Physics, the Faculty of Engineering Sciences and members of the Private University of Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology in Hall/Tyrol.
- and it is affiliated with the MSCA COFUND Doctoral Programme DOCC: Dynamics of Complex Continua, which is an interdisciplinary Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND doctoral programme at the University of Innsbruck with a focus on modelling and simulation of complex dynamical continuum systems in research fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry, atmospheric sciences, material and engineering sciences, and computer science.
Tunneling Simulation
3D and 2D finite element simulations of deep tunnel advance: A numerical study on the Brenner Base Tunnel (M. Neuner, M. Schreter, P. Gamnitzer, G. Hofstetter; in Comput Geotech 119 (2020) 103355).
Modelling of flexural creep rupture
Dummer, Alexander, Matthias Neuner, and Günter Hofstetter. "An extended gradient-enhanced damage-plasticity model for concrete considering nonlinear creep and failure due to creep." International Journal of Solids and Structures (2022): 111541.
Evaluation of Material Models for Concrete
and application for anchor channels (Neuner, M., Hofer, P., and Hofstetter, G. (2022). “On the Prediction of Complex Shear Dominated Concrete Failure by Means of Classical and Higher Order Damage-Plasticity Continuum Models”. In: Engineering Structures 251).
A gradient enhanced transversely isotropic damage plasticity model for rock
Thomas Mader, Magdalena Schreter, and Günter Hofstetter. "A gradient enhanced transversely isotropic damage plasticity model for rock‐formulation and comparison of different approaches." International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics (2022).
Investigation of Tensile Creep
of a Normal Strength Overlay Concrete. (Drexel, Martin; Theiner, Yvonne; Hofstetter, Günter; in: Materials 2018, 11, 993.)
Evaluation of the Implicit
Gradient-Enhanced Regularization of a Damage-Plasticity Rock Model. (Schreter Magdalena, Neuner Matthias, Hofstetter Günter; in: Applied Sciences. 2018; 8(6):1004.)
Versuche zum Schwinden und Kriechen
von Beton unter Berücksichtigung des Feuchtegehalts (Drexel, Martin; Theiner, Yvonne; Hofstetter, Günter; in: Bauingenieur - Ausgabe 03-2018, S. 95-102.)
Evolving yield surface
of the damage plasticity model for intact rock and rock mass during plastic hardening (Schreter, M. et al. "Application of a damage plasticity model for rock mass to the numerical simulation of tunneling". In: EURO:TUN 2017 / edited by: Hofstetter, G. et al. Innsbruck, 2017: 547.)
Multi-phase FE modelling
of pumping induced settlements (Gamnitzer, P. et al. "Fully coupled multi-phase modelling of pumping induced settlements, air- and water flow in multi-layered normally consolidated soils". In: Computers and Geotechnics 79 (2016) 10–21.)
Time-Dependent Material Properties
of Shotcrete: Experimental and Numerical Study (Neuner, M. et al.; in: Materials 10, no. 9 (2017): 1067.)
Pushover analysis
of a reinforced concrete frame; the colour scheme indicates the different degrees of damage (Azadi Kakavand, M. R. et al.; in: Bull Earthquake Eng (2018))
Modelling of coupled shrinkage and creep
in multiphase formulations of hardening concrete (P. Gamnitzer, A. Brugger, M. Drexel and G. Hofstetter. In: Materials 2019 12 1745)
Calibration of a multiphase model
based on a comprehensive data set for a normal strength concrete (P.Gamnitzer, M. Drexel, A. Brugger, G. Hofstetter. In: Materials 2019 12 791)