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Overview

Holm Altenbach is affiliated with Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg in Germany. Their research focuses primarily on engineering and materials science, with significant contributions to mechanics of materials, mechanical engineering, materials chemistry, civil and structural engineering, and biomedical engineering.

The scientist's work encompasses several key topics, including:

  • Composite Structure Analysis and Optimization
  • Composite Material Mechanics
  • Nonlocal and gradient elasticity in micro/nano structures
  • Numerical methods in engineering
  • Elasticity and Material Modeling
  • Thermoelastic and Magnetoelastic Phenomena
  • Mechanical Behavior of Composites

Holm Altenbach has published extensively, often in collaboration with frequent coauthors such as Lidiia Nazarenko, Rainer Glüge, Konstantin Naumenko, Dmytro Breslavsky, and Marcus Aßmus.

Their recent papers include:

  • Positive definiteness in coupled strain gradient elasticity, 2020, Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics
  • On the elastic wedge problem within simplified and incomplete strain gradient elasticity theories, 2022, International Journal of Solids and Structures
  • Influence of structure gradients in injection moldings of isotactic polypropylene on their mechanical properties, 2020, Polymer
  • Minimization of thermal stress in perforated composite plate using metaheuristic algorithms WOA, SCA and GA, 2022, Composite Structures
  • Coupled effect of curved surface and interface on stress state of wrinkled thin film coating at the nanoscale, 2021, ZAMM - Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics / Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik

Holm Altenbach has contributed multiple publications to notable venues, with the most frequent being:

  • ZAMM - Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics / Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik
  • Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics
  • Acta Mechanica
  • Archive of Applied Mechanics
  • Materialwissenschaft und Werkstofftechnik

The scientist has also authored numerous books published by Springer International Publishing, such as:

  • Multiscale Solid Mechanics (2020)
  • Mechanics of Heterogeneous Materials (2023)
  • Analysis of Shells, Plates, and Beams (2020)
  • Theoretical Analyses, Computations, and Experiments of Multiscale Materials (2022)
  • Sixty Shades of Generalized Continua (2023)
  • Nonlinear Mechanics of Complex Structures (2021)
  • Material Modeling and Structural Mechanics (2022)
  • Recent Approaches in the Theory of Plates and Plate-Like Structures (2022)
  • Advanced Transdisciplinary Engineering and Technology (2022)
  • Mechanics of High-Contrast Elastic Solids (2023)
  • Creep in Structures VI (2023)
  • Advances in Linear and Nonlinear Continuum and Structural Mechanics (2023)
  • Engineering Design Applications V (2023)
  • Engineering Design Applications IV (2022)

The comprehensive scope of Holm Altenbach's work spans fundamental studies in elasticity and material modeling to applied research in composite materials and structural mechanics, reflecting a broad expertise within engineering and materials science disciplines.

Best Publications

  • Mechanics of Composite Structural Elements

    Holm Altenbach;Johannes Altenbach;Wolfgang Kissing

  • On generalized Cosserat-type theories of plates and shells: a short review and bibliography

    Johannes Altenbach;Holm Altenbach;Victor A. Eremeyev

  • Foundations of Micropolar Mechanics

    Victor A. Eremeyev;Leonid P Lebedev;Holm Altenbach

  • Modeling of creep for structural analysis

    Konstantin Naumenko;Holm Altenbach

  • Mechanics of Generalized Continua

    Holm Altenbach;Gérard A. Maugin;Vladimir Erofeev

  • On the linear theory of micropolar plates

    Holm Altenbach;Victor A. Eremeyev

  • On the shell theory on the nanoscale with surface stresses

    Holm Altenbach;Victor A. Eremeyev

  • Theories for laminated and sandwich plates

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  • Deformation analysis of functionally graded beams by the direct approach

    Mircea Bîrsan;Holm Altenbach;Tomasz Sadowski;Victor Eremeyev

  • Modelling functionally graded materials in heat transfer and thermal stress analysis by means of graded finite elements

    V.N. Burlayenko;V.N. Burlayenko;H. Altenbach;T. Sadowski;S.D. Dimitrova

  • Generalized Continua from the Theory to Engineering Applications

    Holm Altenbach;Victor A. Eremeyev

  • An alternative determination of transverse shear stiffnesses for sandwich and laminated plates

    Holm Altenbach

  • Surface viscoelasticity and effective properties of thin-walled structures at the nanoscale

    Holm Altenbach;Victor A. Eremeyev;Nikita F. Morozov

  • Direct approach-based analysis of plates composed of functionally graded materials

    Holm Altenbach;Victor A. Eremeyev

  • On the existence of solution in the linear elasticity with surface stresses

    Holm Altenbach;Victor A. Eremeyev;Leonid P. Lebedev

  • On equations of the linear theory of shells with surface stresses taken into account

    H. Altenbach;V. A. Eremeev;N. F. Morozov

  • Thermal Stress and Strain of Solar Cells in Photovoltaic Modules

    Ulrich Eitner;Sarah Kajari-Schröder;Marc Köntges;Holm Altenbach

  • Acceleration waves and ellipticity in thermoelastic micropolar media

    Holm Altenbach;Victor A. Eremeyev;Leonid P. Lebedev;Leonardo A. Rendón

  • Computational simulations of thermal shock cracking by the virtual crack closure technique in a functionally graded plate

    V.N. Burlayenko;H. Altenbach;T. Sadowski;S.D. Dimitrova

  • Encyclopedia of continuum mechanics

    Holm Altenbach;Andreas Öchsner

  • Analysis of the viscoelastic behavior of plates made of functionally graded materials

    Holm Altenbach;Victor A. Eremeyev

  • Analysis of laminated glass beams for photovoltaic applications

    Stefan-H. Schulze;Matthias Pander;Konstantin Naumenko;Holm Altenbach

Frequent Co-Authors

Victor A. Eremeyev
Victor A. Eremeyev University of Cagliari
Tomasz Sadowski
Tomasz Sadowski Lublin University of Technology
David Hui
David Hui University of New Orleans
Wilfried Becker
Wilfried Becker Technical University of Darmstadt
René Androsch
René Androsch Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Samuel Forest
Samuel Forest Mines ParisTech
Nasir Mahmood
Nasir Mahmood RMIT University
Gérard A. Maugin
Gérard A. Maugin Sorbonne University
Erasmo Carrera
Erasmo Carrera Polytechnic University of Turin
Michael Böhm
Michael Böhm Saarland University

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