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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Switzerland
2026

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
61
Citations
12266
World Ranking
654
National Ranking
10

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Dirk Mohr is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and has contributed extensively to the fields of Engineering and Materials Science. Their work is mainly situated within the subfields of Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials, and Materials Chemistry. Additional research areas include Biomedical Engineering and Civil and Structural Engineering.

The primary focus of Mohr's research involves various aspects of material behavior and simulation techniques. Key topics covered in their work encompass Metal Forming Simulation Techniques, Metallurgy and Material Forming, High-Velocity Impact and Material Behavior, Cellular and Composite Structures, Microstructure and Mechanical Properties, Machine Learning in Materials Science, and Model Reduction and Neural Networks.

Mohr has published numerous papers in several notable scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • International Journal of Plasticity
  • International Journal of Solids and Structures
  • International Journal of Mechanical Sciences
  • Acta Materialia
  • Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids

Significant recent papers authored or coauthored by Mohr include:

  • "On the potential of recurrent neural networks for modeling path dependent plasticity," 2020, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
  • "Using neural networks to represent von Mises plasticity with isotropic hardening," 2020, International Journal of Plasticity
  • "Strain rate and temperature dependent fracture of aluminum alloy 7075: Experiments and neural network modeling," 2020, International Journal of Plasticity
  • "Neural network model describing the temperature- and rate-dependent stress-strain response of polypropylene," 2020, International Journal of Plasticity
  • "On the importance of self-consistency in recurrent neural network models representing elasto-plastic solids," 2021, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Mohr include Christian C. Roth, Thomas Tancogne-Dejean, Vincent Grolleau, Nikolaos Karathanasopoulos, and Maysam B. Gorji.

Best Publications

  • Additively-manufactured metallic micro-lattice materials for high specific energy absorption under static and dynamic loading

    Thomas Tancogne-Dejean;Adriaan B. Spierings;Dirk Mohr

  • Micromechanically-motivated phenomenological Hosford–Coulomb model for predicting ductile fracture initiation at low stress triaxialities

    Dirk Mohr;Dirk Mohr;Stephane J. Marcadet;Stephane J. Marcadet

  • 3D Plate-Lattices: An Emerging Class of Low-Density Metamaterial Exhibiting Optimal Isotropic Stiffness.

    Thomas Tancogne-Dejean;Thomas Tancogne-Dejean;Marianna Diamantopoulou;Marianna Diamantopoulou;Maysam B. Gorji;Maysam B. Gorji;Colin Bonatti;Colin Bonatti

  • Effect of strain rate on ductile fracture initiation in advanced high strength steel sheets: Experiments and modeling

    Christian C. Roth;Dirk Mohr;Dirk Mohr

  • On the predictive capabilities of the shear modified Gurson and the modified Mohr–Coulomb fracture models over a wide range of stress triaxialities and Lode angles

    Matthieu Dunand;Matthieu Dunand;Dirk Mohr;Dirk Mohr

  • Ductile fracture experiments with locally proportional loading histories

    Christian C. Roth;Christian C. Roth;Dirk Mohr;Dirk Mohr;Dirk Mohr

  • Hybrid experimental-numerical analysis of basic ductile fracture experiments for sheet metals

    Matthieu Dunand;Dirk Mohr;Dirk Mohr

  • Mechanical performance of additively-manufactured anisotropic and isotropic smooth shell-lattice materials: Simulations & experiments

    Colin Bonatti;Colin Bonatti;Dirk Mohr

  • Smooth-shell metamaterials of cubic symmetry: Anisotropic elasticity, yield strength and specific energy absorption

    Colin Bonatti;Colin Bonatti;Dirk Mohr

  • Experiments and modeling of anisotropic aluminum extrusions under multi-axial loading – Part II: Ductile fracture

    Meng Luo;Matthieu Dunand;Dirk Mohr;Dirk Mohr

  • Large deformation response of additively-manufactured FCC metamaterials: From octet truss lattices towards continuous shell mesostructures

    Colin Bonatti;Colin Bonatti;Dirk Mohr

  • On the potential of recurrent neural networks for modeling path dependent plasticity

    Maysam B. Gorji;Maysam B. Gorji;Maysam B. Gorji;Mojtaba Mozaffar;Julian N. Heidenreich;Julian N. Heidenreich;Jian Cao

  • Stiffness and specific energy absorption of additively-manufactured metallic BCC metamaterials composed of tapered beams

    Thomas Tancogne-Dejean;Dirk Mohr

  • Ductile fracture of aluminum 2024-T351 under proportional and non-proportional multi-axial loading: Bao–Wierzbicki results revisited

    Jessica Papasidero;Véronique Doquet;Dirk Mohr;Dirk Mohr

  • Effect of stress triaxiality and Lode angle on the kinetics of strain-induced austenite-to-martensite transformation

    Allison M. Beese;Dirk Mohr;Dirk Mohr

  • Calibration of Stress-triaxiality Dependent Crack Formation Criteria: A New Hybrid Experimental–Numerical Method

    D. Mohr;S. Henn

  • Machine-learning based temperature- and rate-dependent plasticity model: Application to analysis of fracture experiments on DP steel

    Xueyang Li;Christian C. Roth;Dirk Mohr

  • Effect of Lode parameter on plastic flow localization after proportional loading at low stress triaxialities

    Matthieu Dunand;Matthieu Dunand;Dirk Mohr;Dirk Mohr

  • Using split Hopkinson pressure bars to perform large strain compression tests on polyurea at low, intermediate and high strain rates

    Jongmin Shim;Dirk Mohr;Dirk Mohr

  • Elastically-isotropic truss lattice materials of reduced plastic anisotropy

    Thomas Tancogne-Dejean;Dirk Mohr

  • Optimized butterfly specimen for the fracture testing of sheet materials under combined normal and shear loading

    Matthieu Dunand;Matthieu Dunand;Dirk Mohr;Dirk Mohr

  • Evaluation of associated and non-associated quadratic plasticity models for advanced high strength steel sheets under multi-axial loading

    Dirk Mohr;Dirk Mohr;Matthieu Dunand;Matthieu Dunand;Keun-Hwan Kim;Keun-Hwan Kim

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Baptiste Leblond
Jean-Baptiste Leblond Université Paris Cité
Johan Jacquemin
Johan Jacquemin François Rabelais University
Jeong Whan Yoon
Jeong Whan Yoon Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Ashkan Vaziri
Ashkan Vaziri Northeastern University
Pierre Collet
Pierre Collet University of Strasbourg

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