Teaching
Structural optimization
This course is offered every summer term for Master's students from WING and MSE. It is tought in English and is structured as follows:?
- Introduction?
- Unconstrained optimizaiton
- Constrained optimization
- Optimization using local approximations
- Trusses in a nutshell
- Optimization of truss structures?
- Finite element analysis in a nutshell?
- Optimization of continuum structures
The course involves many exercises to pratically solve structural optimization in your own code. Sucess is evaluated in a 30 minute oral examination, to which you should bring a sample of your code. The entire course material is available
Open Source on GitHub.
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Materials Engineering
This course is offered every winter term for MSE Master's students and tought in English. We discuss fundamentals of structural materials:?
- Mechanical properties of materials
- Failure of materials?
- Atomic structures and crystal structures
- Imperfections in solids and strengthening
- Phase diagrams
- Phase transformations
- Metals
- Polymers
- Ceramics and glasses
- Composites?
- Natural materials and bio-based materials?
- Materials selection and sustainable design
During the second half of the course, students solve engineering tasks, e.g. designing a bicycle light with choice of materials and manufacturing technologies. Sucess is evaluated in a 30 minute oral examination.
Digicampus
(applied filters: semester: current | lecturers: Nils Meyer | course types: all)
| name | lecturer | semester | type | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Structural Optimization |
Nils Meyer |
summer semester 2025 | Vorlesung + ?bung | englisch |