Manfred Bischoff (engineer)

Manfred Bischoff (born April 25, 1968 in Freudenstadt ) is a German civil engineer and lecturer in structural engineering at the University of Stuttgart .

Education and professional career

After graduating from high school at Kepler-Gymnasium in Freudenstadt and doing military service, Bischoff studied civil engineering at the University of Stuttgart from 1988 to 1993 , was a research assistant at the Institute for Structural Analysis from 1993 and received his doctorate in 1999 from Ekkehard Ramm (dissertation: Theory and numerics of a three-dimensional shell formulation). He was a post-doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley . In 2001 he became an academic councilor and later senior counselor and deputy head of the chair for structural engineering at the Technical University of Munich (chair of Kai-Uwe Bletzinger ), where he qualified as a professor in 2005. From 2006 he was professor and head of the Institute for Structural Analysis and Dynamics (IBB) at the University of Stuttgart as successor to Ekkehard Ramm.

From 2008 to 2012 he was on the board of the German Association for Computational Mechanics (GACM) and since 2013 on the council of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM), whose Award for Young Scientists he received in 2008 and whose Fellow he became in 2012.

Research areas

Bischoff deals with nonlinear structural mechanics with computer support, shell theory including modeling with finite elements (FEM), generally with the FEM method, nonlinear stability analysis with path tracking, structure optimization, problems over several scales and fields, contact problems, biomimetics and adaptive structures.

He has been the head of the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) Biological Design and Integrative Structures since 2014 and in the SFB Adaptive Envelopes and Structures for the Built Environment of Tomorrow since 2017 .

Fonts (selection)

with E. Ramm, M. Braun: Higher order nonlinear shell formulations - a step back into three dimensions, in: From Finite Elements to the Troll Platform, Dept. of Structural Engineering, Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim 1994
with M. Braun, E. Ramm: Nonlinear shell formulations for complete three-dimensional constitutive laws including composites and laminates, Computational Mechanics, Volume 15, 1994, pp. 1-18
with E. Ramm: Shear deformable shell elements for large strains and rotations, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Volume 40, 1997, pp. 4427-4449
Theory and numerics of a three-dimensional shell formulation, report No. 30, Institute for Structural Analysis, University of Stuttgart, 1999 (= dissertation)
with DP Mok, WA Wall, E. Ramm: Algorithmic aspects of deformation dependent loads in non-linear static finite element analysis, Engineering Computations, Volume 16, 1999, pp. 601-618
with E. Ramm, D. Braess: A class of equivalent enhanced assumed strain and hybrid stress finite elements, Computational Mechanics, Volume 22, 1999, pp. 443-449
with E. Ramm: On the physical significance of higher order kinematic and static variables in a three-dimensional shell formulation, International Journal of Solids and Structures, Volume 37, 2000, pp. 6933-6960
with K.-U. Bletzinger, E. Ramm: A unified approach for shear-locking-free triangular and rectangular shell finite elements, Computers & Structures, Volume 75, 2000, pp. 321-334
with WA Wall, E. Ramm: A deformation dependent stabilization technique, exemplified by EAS elements at large strains, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Volume 188, 2000, pp. 859-871
with K.-U. Bletzinger: Stabilized DSG plate and shell elements, in: Trends in computational structural mechanics, 2001
with F. Koschnick, N. Camprubi, K.-U. Bletzinger: The discrete strain gap method and membrane locking, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Volume 194, 2005, pp. 2444-2463
with R. Echter: Numerical efficiency, locking and unlocking of NURBS finite elements, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Volume 199, 2010, pp. 374-382
with T. Cichosz: Consistent treatment of boundaries with mortar contact formulations using dual Lagrange multipliers, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Volume 200, 2011, pp. 1317-1332
with A. Tkachuk: Variational methods for selective mass scaling, Computational Mechanics, Volume 52, 2013, pp. 563-570
with ME Matzen, T. Cichosz: A point to segment contact formulation for isogeometric, NURBS based finite elements, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Volume 255, 2013, pp. 27-39
with R. Echter, B. Oesterle: A hierarchic family of isogeometric shell finite elements, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Volume 254, 2013, pp. 170-180
with B. Oesterle, E. Ramm: A shear deformable, rotation-free isogeometric shell formulation, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Volume 307, 2016, pp. 235-255
with E. Ramm, J. Irslinger: Models and finite elements for thin-walled structures, ion: Encyclopedia of Computational Mechanics, 2nd edition, 2018, pp. 1–86

Web links

Homepage, University of Stuttgart, IBB

Individual evidence

↑ For example, he was co-author of an essay on the mechanics of the snapping of the water trap , a combination of the release of hydraulic water pressure in the tissue of the plant and of bias, Anna S. Westermeier et al. a .: How the carnivorous waterwheel plant (Aldrovanda vesiculosa) snaps , Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Volume 285, 2018.

personal data
SURNAME	Bischoff, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German civil engineer
DATE OF BIRTH	April 25, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH	Freudenstadt

[1] For example, he was co-author of an essay on the mechanics of the snapping of the water trap , a combination of the release of hydraulic water pressure in the tissue of the plant and of bias, Anna S. Westermeier et al. a .: How the carnivorous waterwheel plant (Aldrovanda vesiculosa) snaps , Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Volume 285, 2018.