Professor Dr.-Ing. Kai Willner

Address Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Department Maschinenbau
Lehrstuhl für Technische Mechanik
Egerlandstraße 5
91058 Erlangen

Projects

As Applicant
- Completed projects
  - Konstitutive Gesetze für den Kontakt rauer Oberflächen (Research Grants)
  - Vibration reduction by energy transfer using shape adaption (Priority Programmes)
  - A hybrid Fuzzy-Stochastic-Finite-Element-Method for polymorphic, microstructural uncertainties in heterogeneous materials (Priority Programmes)
  - Fuzzy-arithmetical modeling of processes with uncertain prarameters (Research Units)
As Project Head
- Current projects
  - Model-based reconciliation of ex vivo and in vivo test data (Collaborative Research Centres)
- Completed projects
  - Akustische und hydroakustische Abstrahlung von schwingenden Festkörpern (Collaborative Research Centres)
  - Optimierung des Energieflusses in der Übertragungskette Aktor - Umformzone (Collaborative Research Centres)
  - Constitutive friction law for the description and optimization of tailored surfaces (CRC/Transregios)
  - Parameter and shape optimization using finite elasto-plasticity (CRC/Transregios)
As Participating Person
- Completed projects
  - Adaptive control of mechanical joints in lightweight structures (Research Grants)
  - Viscoelastic constitutive equations involving fractional derivatives and their implementation into the finite element method (Research Grants)
  - Adaptive Reibflächen zur Schwingungsreduktion in Werkzeugmaschinen (Priority Programmes)
As Cooperation Partner
- Completed projects
  - Mechanical and microstructural investigations of the biaxial Bauschinger effect in sheet metals (Research Grants)