Expertise
Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Network
- Predator
- Turtle
- Investigation
- Armor
- Bone
Engineering
- Protective Structure
Physics
- Networks
Organisations
My primary research focus is on the modelling of coupled magneto-mechanical behaviour in single and polycrystals in the presence of large plastic deformations. However, I am interested in the micromechanical modelling of solids and associated numerical methods in general.
Publications
2022
How suture networks improve the protective function of natural structures: A multiscale investigation (2022)Acta biomaterialia, 283-296. Alheit, B., Bargmann, S. & Reddy, B. D.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2022.03.037Multiscale modelling of sutures in a high-performing biological protective structure: The turtle shell (2022)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Cape Town. Alheit, B.https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.10216.55042
2021
Dynamic mechanical behaviour of suture interfaces as inspiration for architectured hierarchical interlocking composites (2021)Journal of the mechanics and physics of solids, 157. Article 104620. Alheit, B., Bargmann, S. & Reddy, B. D.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2021.104620
2020
Computationally modelling the mechanical behaviour of turtle shell sutures—A natural interlocking structure (2020)Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials, 110. Article 103973. Alheit, B., Bargmann, S. & Reddy, B. D.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmbbm.2020.103973
Research profiles
Address
University of Twente
Horst Complex (building no. 20), room N127
De Horst 2
7522 LW Enschede
Netherlands
University of Twente
Horst Complex N127
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
Netherlands
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