Since March 2022, DSc. Franz von Bock und Polach is the new Head of our Institute. Congratulations!
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Prof. Sören Ehlers is the Director of the DLR Institute for Maritime Energy Systems
Since the beginning of 2022, Prof. Sören Ehlers is the Director of the DLR Institute for Maritime Energy Systems. Congratulations! In addition to this position, he will continue to be a professor at our institute and will also remain the scientific director of the DLR School_Lab.
DLR School_Lab Lecture on Collision Safety of Ships
In this new video, Prof. Sören Ehlers (scientific director of the DLR School_Lab at TUHH) explains why ships collide, what can happen and how engineers are able to improve the collision safety of ships. More information about the DLR School_Lab at TUH can be found here.
Technology and The Sea – Fascination Marine Technology
Enjoy this Podcast by Bärbel Fening in cooperation with the German Association for Marine Technology (GMT). In the first episode, Dr. Walter Kühnlein (chairman of GMT) and Prof. Sören Ehlers (vice chairman of GMT) talk about what marine technology is, what is so fascinating about it, and the impact of marine technology for the future.
Special Issue “Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics of Marine Structures”
Leon Kellner: Successful defence!
We are happy to announce that our colleague Leon Kellner successfully defended his doctoral thesis “Analyzing the complexity of ice with explainable machine learning for the development of an ice material model”.
Congratulations!
Franz von Bock und Polach nominated as Chairman of the Specialist Comittee on Ice at ITTC
As an expert on ships in ice, Franz has been nominated as Chairman of the Specialist Committee on Ice at the 30th International Towing Tank Conference (ITTC). In the working group, the scientist will work on the development of uniform standards and guidelines for ships in ice for the next three years.
Contributions to ICIMECE 2021
The 7th International E-Conference on Industrial, Mechanical, Electrical, and Chemical Engineering (ICIMECE 2021) takes place in Indonesia on 5th October 2021. These are our contributions:
Recent progress on geometrical and stress concentration characterization of welded joints, for which Moritz Braun received a best presenter award:
Simulation of two-dimensional ice crushing processes with the Mohr-Coulomb Nodal Split model (speaker Hauke Herrnring):
Doctoral presentation of Moritz Braun
Our colleague Moritz Braun successfully defended his doctoral thesis “Assessment of fatigue strength of welded steel joints at sub-zero temperatures based on the micro-structural support effect hypothesis”.
Congratulations, Moritz!
