Peter Wriggers

Peter Wriggers (born February 3, 1951 in Hamburg ) is a German engineer.

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Wriggers studied civil engineering at the University of Hanover from 1970 to 1976 . His doctorate on contact and impact problems was completed in 1980 under the direction of Erwin Stein . In 1983/84 Wriggers worked as a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley with Robert L. Taylor in the field of Computational Mechanics . He then held a position as academic advisor at the Institute for Structural Mechanics and Numerical Mechanics at the University of Hanover. Here he completed his habilitation in 1986 with the thesis "Consistent linearizations in continuum mechanics".

In 1990 he was appointed full professor at the Institute for Mechanics at the TH Darmstadt . From 1996 to 1998 he was director of the "Center for Scientific Computing". After a failed appointment at the University of Stuttgart in 1994, Wriggers accepted a position at the University of Hanover in 1998 and headed the Institute for Structural Mechanics and Numerical Mechanics from 1998 to 2008. Since 2008 he has been the director of the Institute for Continuum Mechanics at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and has been an adjunct professor at the University of Newcastle in the Australian state of New South Wales since 2005 .

In January 2015, Wriggers was appointed Vice President for Research at Leibniz Universität Hannover.

Wriggers is a member of the Braunschweig Scientific Society , the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz and the German Academy for Technical Sciences "acatech" . From 2008 to 2010 he was President of the Society for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM) and from 2009 to 2012 President of the German Association of Computational Mechanics (GACM). Since 2010 he has been Vice President of the “International Association of Computational Mechanics” (IACM) responsible for Europe and Africa. In 2013 he received an honorary doctorate from the Poznan University of Technology and the Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan . In 2015 he received an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Darmstadt .

Wriggers is editor-in-chief of the international magazine “Computational Mechanics” and co-editor of “Bauingenieur”.

His awards include the “Fellow of IACM”, the “Computational Mechanics Award” from the IACM, the “Euler Medal” from ECCOMAS , the “IACM Award” from the IACM and the “Zienkiewicz Medal” from the Polish Association of Computational Mechanics.

His research interests include the development of new techniques and algorithms in the field of computational mechanics, contact mechanics, multi-scale modeling of heterogeneous materials and generally finite element technology.

Fonts

• Nonlinear Finite Elements , Springer, Berlin, 2002.
• With TI Zohdi Introduction to Computational Micromechanics , Lecture Notes Computational and Applied Mechanics, Vol. 20, Springer, Berlin, 2005.
• Computational Contact Mechanics , 2nd. Edition, Springer, 2006.
• Nonlinear Finite Elements , Springer, Berlin, 2008.
• With D. Gross, W. Hauger, W. Schnell: Technische Mechanik 4 , 3rd edition, Springer, Berlin, 1999.
• With D. Gross, W. Schnell, W. Ehlers: Formulas and tasks for technical mechanics 1, statics , Springer, Berlin, 1998.
• With D. Gross, W. Schnell, W. Ehlers: Formulas and tasks for technical mechanics 2, elastostatics, hydrostatics , Springer, Berlin, 1998.
• With D. Gross, W. Schnell, W. Ehlers: Formulas and tasks for technical mechanics 3, kinetics, hydrodynamics , Springer, Berlin, 1999.
• With U. Nackenhorst, S. Beuermann, H. Spiess, S. Löhnert: "Technical mechanics compact, rigid body statics, elastostatics, kinetics", Teubner, Stuttgart, 2005.

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Wriggers in the catalog of the German National Library
• Peter Wriggers at the University of Hanover

Individual evidence

1. ↑ member entry of Peter Wriggers at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz , accessed on 06.11.17
2. ↑ to the top 3, October 1, 2015, p. 21