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Chair of Continuum Mechanics

Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Daniel Balzani

About Us

The chair of continuum mechanics is active in developing methods for the continuum mechanical modeling and simulation of complex materials. Focus is on the development of scale-coupling numerical methods as well as new material models which enable the simulation of materials such as multiphase steels, textile membranes, soft biological tissues, fiber-concrete composites, or hardmetal composites by incorporating uncertainties at different scales. Increasingly, the experimental characterization of nonlinear material properties as well as the unique identification of material parameters become more important.

Contact

Chair of Continuum Mechanics,
ICFW 03/741,
Universitätsstraße 150,
44801 Bochum
✆:  +49 234 32-26048
✉: sekretariat@lkm.rub.de



— We are always looking for motivated students who are interested in working on their thesis with us. If you are passionate about mathematics, engineering problems and have a flair for programming, have a look at the research that takes place at our chair. If we have kindled your interest, contact our secretary or your lecturer directly.


Recent News
Nature Balzani Mod
2026/01/19

We are happy to announce the publication of the paper "Cell viscosity influences haematogenous dissemination and metastatic extravasation of tumour cells" under co-authorship of Klemens Uhlmann and Daniel Balzani  in the journal nature materials

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Abschlussfeier2026
2026/01/16

M.Sc. Thuc Pham Phu was awarded the Niemann-Prize from the study program Computational Engineering.

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2025/12/18

Today, Dr. Luigi Perotti from the University of Central Florida presented his work entitled “Extraction of heart health and function indices from magnetic resonance images: from cardiac microstructure to kinematic measurements” in the Journal Club.

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Ogiermann Ceremony
2025/12/18

We proudly announce that Dennis Ogiermann has successfully defended his PhD thesis on Efficient Computational Methods for the Electromechanical Simulation and Validation of the Living Heartwith distinction.

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Db Dekan
2025/10/02

Head of the chair Prof. Daniel Balzani is unanimously elected Dean of the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering by the Faculty Council. He will take up his post on October 1, 2025.

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