Albrecht Bertram

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Albrecht Bertram (born October 2, 1950 in Braunschweig ) is a former university professor of mechanics . He held the chair of strength theory at the Institute for Mechanics (IFME) at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg and is an adjunct professor in the field of continuum mechanics and material theory at the Institute for Mechanics at the Technical University of Berlin .

Career

Albrecht Bertram studied at the Technical University of Berlin . In 1975 he completed his studies in physical engineering with a diploma . He wrote his diploma thesis under the guidance of Peter Haupt. He then worked as a research assistant at the 2nd Institute for Mechanics at the Technical University of Berlin. Bertram received his doctorate in 1980 under Rudolf Trostel , a student of István Szabó and colleague Walter Nolls during his time in Berlin, to become Dr.-Ing. with a thesis on material systems with internal constraints. He completed his habilitation there in 1987 with a thesis on an attempt at an axiomatic introduction to continuum mechanics based on a performance functional for Dr.-Ing. habil. From 1987 he was a private lecturer at the Technical University of Berlin.

From 1988 to 1995 Bertram worked as a research assistant at the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing in the department of computational material and component analysis.

On May 1, 1995, Bertram was appointed university professor for strength theory to succeed Johannes Altenbach at the Institute for Mechanics at Otto von Guericke University . In addition, since July 11, 1995, he has been an adjunct professor at the Technical University of Berlin. Between 2001 and 2006 he was head of the Institute for Mechanics in Magdeburg. Bertram retired on March 31, 2016. His chair ( strength theory ) was dissolved and on April 1, 2016 the chair of technical mechanics (chair holder: Holm Altenbach ) was added.

During his career he has had several guest stays at the following universities:

Thomas Böhlke is one of his students .

Research focus

The main focus of Bertram's work is material modeling. The background is the continuum thermomechanically consistent development of extended approaches for engineering applications. The work concerns the entire range of inelastic material behavior with geometric non-linearity.

In addition, he deals with the basics of generalized continuum theories, especially the continua in which higher gradients of the displacements are used.

Others

Bertram is considered a representative of the so-called 'Berlin School of Continuum Mechanics' (Berlin school of continuum mechanics). This school is heavily influenced by the work of scientists Clifford Truesdell and Walter Noll , see. He is known for his precise representations based on mathematical and physical principles while avoiding purely intuitive approaches.

Bertram is in a long family tree of scientists from physics and mathematics, u. a. Edmund Landau , Ferdinand Georg Frobenius , Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstraß ,  Georg Karl Wilhelm Hamel , David Hilbert , Felix Klein , Rudolf Otto Sigismund Lipschitz , Gustav Peter Lejeune Dirichlet , Simeon Denis Poisson and Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier , Joseph Louis Lagrange , Pierre-Simon Laplace etc., to name a few.

Albrecht Bertram has been running the free information service TMinfo since 2000 . This information service for the field of technical mechanics is intended for anyone from universities, institutes and industry who are scientifically interested in the field of technical mechanics. Important information such as announcements of scientific meetings, lectures, conferences, etc., job advertisements and requests as well as the display of publications, reports and working materials in the field of technical mechanics are distributed via email.

Bertram lives in Berlin where he ran a shared apartment for a long time. Prominent roommates were u. a. Samuel Forest and Bob (Robert) Svendsen. He is now married, but childless.

Works

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Faculty V Traffic and Machine Systems: apl. Prof. Dr.-Ing. A. Bertram. Retrieved January 29, 2017 .
  2. ^ S. Hartmann: To the Honor of the 70th Birthday of Peter Haupt . In: ZAMM - Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics / Journal for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics . tape 88 , no. 5 , May 6, 2008, ISSN  1521-4001 , p. 330–331 , doi : 10.1002 / zamm.200890004 .
  3. ↑ Albrecht Bertram: Obituary for Rudolf Trostel. In: Technical Mechanics. Magdeburg Association for Technical Mechanics, November 15, 2016, accessed on July 28, 2017 .
  4. ^ A b Albrecht Bertram - The Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved January 30, 2017 .
  5. ↑ a b c d IFME | LTM | Albrecht Bertram. Archived from the original on January 29, 2017 ; accessed on January 7, 2020 .
  6. ↑ IFME | Chairs. Retrieved January 29, 2017 .
  7. ↑ IFME - Institute for Mechanics. Retrieved January 29, 2017 .
  8. ^ Albrecht Bertram: Elasticity and Plasticity of Large Deformations . Springer, ISBN 978-3-642-24614-2 .
  9. ^ C. Truesdell: The Non-Linear Field Theories of Mechanics . Springer, ISBN 978-3-540-02779-9 .
  10. ↑ Albrecht Bertram: TMinfo. In: TU Berlin, Faculty V Traffic and Machine Systems, Institute for Mechanics, Continuum Mechanics and Material Theory. Albrecht Bertram, December 21, 2018, accessed on July 27, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Bertram, Albrecht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university professor for mechanics
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig