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Professor Dr.-Ing. habil. Werner Wagner

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http://www.ibs.kit.edu/english/287_405.php
http://www.springer.com/authors?SGWID=0-111-19-152491-0
http://www.journalogy.net/Author/12624669/werner-wagner

Head of the Institute for Structural Analysis
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

General fields of work:
Modeling of structures
Beam and shell structures
Composite materials
Numeric of elastic plastic deformations
Finite element methods
Nonlinear continuum mechanics
Stability of structures

Teaching:
Intruduction to Modeling of Structures
Statics of Structures
Computer-assisted modeling of structures
Structural analysis with commercial software I
Seminar for structural analysis

Biography and Academic Career:
07.05.1952 Born in Kassel
1973-1979 Study of Civil Engineering at Technical University of Hanover
since 1980 Research assistant at Institute of Mechanics and Computational Mechanics (IBNM), University of Hanover
1985 PhD-thesis on geometrically nonlinear elastic shells and their numerical modeling
1985 Lecturer at the IBNM, University of Hanover
1990 Akademischer Rat at the IBNM, University of Hanover
1990 Habilitation-thesis on Elastostatic stability problems within the finite element method
since 1994 Chair of structural analysis at the Institute for Structural Analysis, University of Karlsruhe (TH)
since 1991 Member of the executive board the German Association for Computational Mechanics (GACM)
since 1995 Inspection engineer for structural Analysis

More than 170 publications in national and international journals and proceedings, for example, in:
Der Bauingenieur
Stahlbau
ZAMM
Archive of Applied Mechanics
Composite Structures
Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
Computational Mechanics
Engineering Computations
European Journal of Finite Elements
Finite Elements in Analysis and Design
International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Some publications relating to stability:

P. Wriggers, W. Wagner, C. Miehe. “A quadratically convergent procedure for the calculation of stability points in finite element analysis.” Comp. Meth. Appl. Mech. Eng., Vol. 70, 329–347, 1988

W. Wagner, P. Wriggers. “A simple method for the calculation of postcritical branches.” Eng. Comp., Vol. 5, 103–109, 1988

Wagner W.: Zur Formulierung eines geometrisch nichtlinearen Finite Elementes für zylindrische Faserverbundschalen, Static und Dynamik in Konstruktiven Ingenieurbau, Festschrift Wilfried B. Krätzig, SFB 151 – Berichte, 1992, Nr 23, B3–B10

Sprenger W, Gruttmann F, Wagner W. Delamination growth analysis in laminated structures with continuum-based 3D-shell elements and a viscoplastic softening model. Comput Methods Appl Mech Eng 2000;185: 123–39.

Ziegler, R., Wagner, W., and Bletzinger, K.-U. (2003). A finite element model for the analysis of wrinkled membrane structures. International Journal of Space Structures, 18(1):1–14

Degenhardt R., Wagner W., Delsemme J.-P. and David A. (2003), GARTEUR Open, SM AG25, "Postbuckling and Collapse Analysis - Benchmark 3 Evaluation Report and Collected Contributions", IB – 131-2003/29, Braunschweig, DLR, 2003

Degenhardt R., Rohwer K., Wagner W., Delsemme J-P. "Postbuckling And Collapse Analysis Of CFRP Stringer Stiffened Panels – A Garteur Activity", Fourth International Conference on Thin-Walled Structures ICTWS 2004, 22-24 June 2004

C. Balzani, W. Wagner, Numerical Treatment of Damage Propagation in Axially Compressed Composite Airframe Panels. Proc. of 2nd Int. Conference on Buckling and Postbuckling Behaviour of Composite Laminated Shell Structures with COCOMAT Workshop 3-5 September 2008, Braunschweig, Germany

A.C. Orifici, S. Lauterbach, H. Abramovich, R.S. Thomson, W. Wagner, C. Balzani, Analysis of damage sensitivity and collapse in postbuckling fibre-reinforced multi-stiffener panels, Proc. of 2nd Int. Conference on Buckling and Postbuckling Behaviour of Composite Laminated Shell Structures with COCOMAT Workshop 3-5 September 2008, Braunschweig, DE

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