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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For multiscaled modelling techniques that improve fracture and deformation behavior of structural materials.
  • 2008 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Engineering Sciences

Overview

Peter Gumbsch is affiliated with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. Their research spans domains within engineering and materials science, with particular focus on mechanical engineering, mechanics of materials, and materials chemistry. They have contributed extensively to subfields such as biomedical engineering and computational mechanics.

The scientist's work engages with multiple topics, including:

  • Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions
  • Metal and Thin Film Mechanics
  • Microstructure and Mechanical Properties
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • Advanced Materials and Mechanics
  • Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics
  • Gear and Bearing Dynamics Analysis

Peter Gumbsch has published research articles primarily in venues such as Advanced Engineering Materials, arXiv (Cornell University), Nature Communications, Scientific Reports, and Acta Materialia. These journals reflect the scientist's contributions to both theoretical and applied aspects of materials engineering.

Recent notable papers include:

  • "Programmable gear-based mechanical metamaterials," 2022, Nature Materials
  • "A deep learning approach for complex microstructure inference," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Wear-resistant CoCrNi multi-principal element alloy at cryogenic temperature," 2023, Science Bulletin
  • "Architecturing materials at mesoscale: some current trends," 2021, Materials Research Letters
  • "Early deformation mechanisms in the shear affected region underneath a copper sliding contact," 2020, Nature Communications

The scientist frequently collaborates with certain researchers, including:

  • Christian Greiner
  • Christoph Eberl
  • Ali Riza Durmaz
  • Ruth Schwaiger
  • Lars Pastewka

Peter Gumbsch's research integrates computational techniques and experimental studies, oftentimes involving advanced modeling approaches to investigate fracture and deformation behaviors in structural materials. Their contributions to engineering sciences were recognized by election to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2008 for work in engineering sciences.

Additionally, Gumbsch became a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2016 for multiscaled modeling techniques that improve fracture and deformation behavior of structural materials. The scientist's portfolio of publications reflects a consistent focus on understanding mechanical properties across various scales and materials types.

Best Publications

  • Structural relaxation made simple.

    Erik Bitzek;Pekka Koskinen;Franz Gähler;Michael Moseler

  • Crack propagation in b.c.c. crystals studied with a combined finite-element and atomistic model

    S. Kohlhoff;P. Gumbsch;H. F. Fischmeister

  • Interactions between non-screw lattice dislocations and coherent twin boundaries in face-centered cubic metals

    Z. H. Jin;P. Gumbsch;K. Albe;E. Ma

  • The evolving quality of frictional contact with graphene

    Suzhi Li;Qunyang Li;Robert W. Carpick;Peter Gumbsch

  • The interaction mechanism of screw dislocations with coherent twin boundaries in different face-centred cubic metals

    Z.-H. Jin;Z.-H. Jin;P. Gumbsch;E. Ma;K. Albe

  • Melting mechanisms at the limit of superheating

    Z. H. Jin;P. Gumbsch;K. Lu;E. Ma

  • Tailored Buckling Microlattices as Reusable Light‐Weight Shock Absorbers

    Tobias Frenzel;Claudio Findeisen;Claudio Findeisen;Muamer Kadic;Peter Gumbsch;Peter Gumbsch

  • Anisotropic mechanical amorphization drives wear in diamond

    Lars Pastewka;Stefan Moser;Peter Gumbsch;Peter Gumbsch;Michael Moseler;Michael Moseler

  • The ultrasmoothness of diamond-like carbon surfaces.

    Michael Moseler;Michael Moseler;Peter Gumbsch;Peter Gumbsch;Cinzia Casiraghi;Andrea C. Ferrari

  • Efficiency of laser surface texturing in the reduction of friction under mixed lubrication

    Daniel Braun;Christian Greiner;Johannes Schneider;Peter Gumbsch

  • Dislocations Faster than the Speed of Sound

    Peter Gumbsch;Huajian Gao;Huajian Gao

  • Directional anisotropy in the cleavage fracture of silicon

    Rubén Pérez;Peter Gumbsch

  • Low-speed fracture instabilities in a brittle crystal

    J. R. Kermode;T. Albaret;D. Sherman;N. Bernstein

  • Brittle fracture and the brittle-to-ductile transition of tungsten

    Peter Gumbsch

  • Energy dissipation and path instabilities in dynamic fracture of silicon single crystals

    T. Cramer;A. Wanner;P. Gumbsch

  • New Twists of 3D Chiral Metamaterials

    I. Fernandez‐Corbaton;C. Rockstuhl;P. Ziemke;P. Gumbsch

  • Initial dislocation structures in 3-D discrete dislocation dynamics and their influence on microscale plasticity

    C. Motz;C. Motz;D. Weygand;J. Senger;P. Gumbsch

  • New directions in mechanics

    Michael E. Kassner;Sia Nemat-Nasser;Zhigang Suo;Gang Bao

  • Atomistic Aspects of Brittle Fracture

    Peter Gumbsch;Rowland M. Cannon

  • Continuum dislocation dynamics: Towards a physical theory of crystal plasticity

    Thomas Hochrainer;Stefan Sandfeld;Michael Zaiser;Peter Gumbsch

  • A three-dimensional continuum theory of dislocation systems: kinematics and mean-field formulation

    Thomas Hochrainer;Michael Zaiser;Peter Gumbsch

  • Anticrack Nucleation as Triggering Mechanism for Snow Slab Avalanches

    J. Heierli;J. Heierli;P. Gumbsch;Michael Zaiser

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Moseler
Michael Moseler University of Freiburg
Volker Schulze
Volker Schulze Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Eduard Arzt
Eduard Arzt University of California, San Diego
Michael Zaiser
Michael Zaiser University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Oliver Kraft
Oliver Kraft Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Alexander Hartmaier
Alexander Hartmaier Ruhr University Bochum
Huajian Gao
Huajian Gao Tsinghua University
Tresa M. Pollock
Tresa M. Pollock University of California, Santa Barbara
Vaclav Vitek
Vaclav Vitek University of Pennsylvania

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