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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Germany
2026

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
89
Citations
35833
World Ranking
121
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Germany Leader Award
  • 2008 - Euler Medal, European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS)
  • 2002 - Fellow of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM)

Overview

Peter Wriggers is affiliated with the University of Hannover in Germany and has contributed extensively to the field of engineering, particularly focusing on mechanics and computational mechanics. Their research encompasses core areas such as Mechanics of Materials, Computational Mechanics, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Civil and Structural Engineering.

The principal topics covered in Wriggers' work include numerical methods in engineering, advanced numerical methods in computational mathematics, elasticity and material modeling, contact mechanics and variational inequalities, mechanical stress and fatigue analysis, fluid dynamics simulations and interactions, and metal forming simulation techniques.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Wriggers include:

  • A machine learning based plasticity model using proper orthogonal decomposition, 2020, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
  • The neural particle method - An updated Lagrangian physics informed neural network for computational fluid dynamics, 2020, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
  • A general phase-field model for fatigue failure in brittle and ductile solids, 2021, Computational Mechanics
  • A fatigue damage accumulation model for reliability analysis of engine components under combined cycle loadings, 2020, Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & Structures
  • A Selection of Benchmark Problems in Solid Mechanics and Applied Mathematics, 2020, Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering

Wriggers has published frequently in the following journals and venues:

  • Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
  • Computational Mechanics
  • International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Wriggers include:

  • Fadi Aldakheel
  • Blaž Hudobivnik
  • Philipp Junker
  • Michele Marino
  • Hans Jürgen Maier

Wriggers has contributed to book publications with recognized academic publishers, including Springer Nature and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Titles include "Non-standard Discretisation Methods in Solid Mechanics" (2022) and "Virtual design and validationLecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics (LNACM, volume 93)" (2020).

Throughout their career, Wriggers has received awards such as the Euler Medal from the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS) in 2008 and was named Fellow of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM) in 2002.

Best Publications

  • Computational Contact Mechanics

    Peter Wriggers

  • Computational Contact Mechanics

    P. Wriggers;G. Zavarise

  • Nonlinear Finite Element Methods

    Peter Wriggers

  • Mesoscale models for concrete: homogenisation and damage behaviour

    P. Wriggers;S. O. Moftah

  • An Introduction to Computational Micromechanics

    Tarek I. Zohdi;Peter Wriggers

  • A perturbed Lagrangian formulation for the finite element solution of contact problems

    Juan C. Simo;Peter Wriggers;Robert L. Taylor

  • Nichtlineare Finite-Element-Methoden

    Peter Wriggers

  • FINITE ELEMENT FORMULATION OF LARGE DEFORMATION IMPACT-CONTACT PROBLEMS WITH FRICTION

    P. Wriggers;T. Vu Van;E. Stein

  • Finite Element Algorithms for Contact Problems

    P. Wriggers

  • Nonlinear finite element analysis of solids and structures

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  • Contact treatment in isogeometric analysis with NURBS

    Ilker Temizer;P. Wriggers;Thomas J Hughes

  • A general procedure for the direct computation of turning and bifurcation points

    P. Wriggers;J. C. Simo

  • A large deformation frictional contact formulation using NURBS‐based isogeometric analysis

    L. De Lorenzis;I. Temizer;P. Wriggers;G. Zavarise

  • A virtual element method for contact

    P. Wriggers;W. T. Rust;B. D. Reddy

  • Automation of Finite Element Methods

    Jože Korelc;Peter Wriggers

  • A note on tangent stiffness for fully nonlinear contact problems

    P. Wriggers;J. C. Simo

  • Consistent linearization for path following methods in nonlinear FE analysis

    K H Schweizerhof;P Wriggers

  • Frictionless 2D Contact formulations for finite deformations based on the mortar method

    K. A. Fischer;P. Wriggers

  • A note on enhanced strain methods for large deformations

    P. Wriggers;S. Reese

  • Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian finite element analysis of free surface flow

    Henning Braess;Peter Wriggers

  • A quadratically convergent procedure for the calculation of stability points in finite element analysis

    P. Wriggers;W. Wagner;C. Miehe

Frequent Co-Authors

Dietmar Gross
Dietmar Gross Technical University of Darmstadt
Tarek I. Zohdi
Tarek I. Zohdi University of California, Berkeley
Giorgio Zavarise
Giorgio Zavarise Polytechnic University of Turin
Fadi Aldakheel
Fadi Aldakheel University of Hannover
Ralf Müller
Ralf Müller BI Norwegian Business School
Stefanie Reese
Stefanie Reese RWTH Aachen University
Erwin Stein
Erwin Stein University of Hannover
Marco Paggi
Marco Paggi IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca
Hans Jürgen Maier
Hans Jürgen Maier University of Hannover
Werner Wagner
Werner Wagner Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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