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268

Overview

Kai-Uwe Bletzinger is affiliated with the Technical University of Munich in Germany. Their research primarily falls within the field of Engineering, with extensive work across several subfields including Civil and Structural Engineering, Computational Mechanics, Mechanics of Materials, Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, and Building and Construction.

The main topics covered in their work feature advanced numerical analysis techniques, computational geometry and mesh generation, topology optimization in engineering, composite structure analysis and optimization, structural health monitoring techniques, numerical methods in engineering, and manufacturing process and optimization.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Kai-Uwe Bletzinger include the following:

  • Finite element method-enhanced neural network for forward and inverse problems, 2023, Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences
  • Damage Detection at a Reinforced Concrete Specimen with Coda Wave Interferometry, 2021, Materials
  • Efficient CAD-integrated isogeometric analysis of trimmed solids, 2022, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
  • A priori penalty factor determination for (trimmed) NURBS-based shells with Dirichlet and coupling constraints in isogeometric analysis, 2021, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
  • Limitations of the St. Venant-Kirchhoff material model in large strain regimes, 2022, International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Bletzinger include Roland Wüchner, Tobias Teschemacher, Klaus Bernd Sautter, Reza Najian Asl, and Anoop Kodakkal.

Their work is regularly published in the following venues:

  • Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization
  • Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
  • Computers & Structures
  • Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences
  • Engineering Structures

Best Publications

  • Isogeometric shell analysis with Kirchhoff–Love elements

    J. Kiendl;K.-U. Bletzinger;J. Linhard;R. Wüchner

  • The bending strip method for isogeometric analysis of Kirchhoff–Love shell structures comprised of multiple patches

    J. Kiendl;Y. Bazilevs;M.-C. Hsu;R. Wüchner

  • 3D simulation of wind turbine rotors at full scale. Part II: Fluid–structure interaction modeling with composite blades

    Y. Bazilevs;M.-C. Hsu;J. Kiendl;R. Wüchner

  • A unified approach for shear-locking-free triangular and rectangular shell finite elements

    Kai-Uwe Bletzinger;Manfred Bischoff;Ekkehard Ramm

  • Rotation free isogeometric thin shell analysis using PHT-splines

    N. Nguyen-Thanh;J. Kiendl;H. Nguyen-Xuan;R. Wüchner

  • Models and finite elements for thin-walled structures

    M. Bischoff;K.‐U. Bletzinger;W. A. Wall;E. Ramm

  • Analysis in computer aided design: Nonlinear isogeometric B-Rep analysis of shell structures

    M. Breitenberger;A. Apostolatos;B. Philipp;R. Wüchner

  • Computational methods for form finding and optimization of shells and membranes

    Kai-Uwe Bletzinger;Roland Wüchner;Fernass Daoud;Natalia Camprubi

  • Structural optimization and form finding of light weight structures

    Kai-Uwe Bletzinger;Ekkehard Ramm

  • A General Finite Element Approach to the form Finding of Tensile Structures by the Updated Reference Strategy

    Kai-Uwe Bletzinger;Ekkehard Ramm

  • A Nitsche‐type formulation and comparison of the most common domain decomposition methods in isogeometric analysis

    Andreas Apostolatos;Robert Schmidt;Roland Wüchner;Kai-Uwe Bletzinger

  • Isogeometric shape optimization of shells using semi-analytical sensitivity analysis and sensitivity weighting

    J. Kiendl;R. Schmidt;R. Wüchner;K.-U. Bletzinger

  • Isogeometric analysis of trimmed NURBS geometries

    Robert Schmidt;Roland Wüchner;Kai-Uwe Bletzinger

  • Optimal shapes of mechanically motivated surfaces

    Kai-Uwe Bletzinger;Matthias Firl;Johannes Linhard;Roland Wüchner

  • Nonlinear isogeometric spatial Bernoulli Beam

    A.M. Bauer;M. Breitenberger;B. Philipp;R. Wüchner

  • Stress‐adapted numerical form finding of pre‐stressed surfaces by the updated reference strategy

    R. Wüchner;K.-U. Bletzinger

  • The Vertex Morphing method for node-based shape optimization

    Majid Hojjat;Electra Stavropoulou;Kai-Uwe Bletzinger

  • Isogeometric Kirchhoff-Love shell formulations for biological membranes.

    Adrián Buganza Tepole;Hardik Kabaria;Kai-Uwe Bletzinger;Ellen Kuhl

  • The discrete strain gap method and membrane locking

    Frank Koschnick;Manfred Bischoff;Natalia Camprubí;Kai-Uwe Bletzinger

  • Interface Jacobian-based Co-Simulation

    S. Sicklinger;V. Belsky;B. Engelmann;H. Elmqvist

Frequent Co-Authors

Ekkehard Ramm
Ekkehard Ramm University of Stuttgart
Josef Kiendl
Josef Kiendl Bundeswehr University Munich
Yuri Bazilevs
Yuri Bazilevs Brown University
Ming-Chen Hsu
Ming-Chen Hsu Iowa State University
Michael Breuer
Michael Breuer Helmut Schmidt University
Kurt Maute
Kurt Maute University of Colorado Boulder
Volker Tresp
Volker Tresp Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Michael Eineder
Michael Eineder German Aerospace Center

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