Franz G. Rammerstorfer#


Michael Huth
Membership Number:4499
Membership type:ORDINARY
Section:PHYSICS
Elected:2017
Main Country of Residence:AUSTRIA
Homepage(s):https://www.tuwien.at/mwbw/ilsb/en/team/team-leichtbau/franz-g-rammerstorfer/
Publication Link:https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=de&user=4ROfbusAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&gmla=AJsN-F4u8Gnf74t4mB0lF71tVE4uzPmqddGws1miKvZgZSYXS-3932GlcOY7CKt7-i73MfacGQZTlUNIRxiCKScglHbCsmAx-xPB3AcmimiijZQARdKo4_lne4UIK3z5NYP0QksaKG2ruJIk5BZO8vKBRkSJh7aZYRiUgh4Mu7Kw8UBW2JC-BV0





Present and Previous Positions
  • since 2016, 10 Professor emeritus, Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien)
  • since 2009, 01 Rector of CISM (Int. Centre for Mechanical Scienes) Udine, Italy
  • since 2012, 12 President of the Austrian Nat. Comm. for Theor. and Appl. Mech. (delegation to Austrian Academy of Sciences)
  • 2007 - 2016 Vice President of the Christian Doppler Research Association (CDG) and Chair of the Scientific Senat of CDG
  • 1983 - 2016 Full Professor for Lightweight Structures and Aerospace Engineering
  • 2011 - 2014 Head of the Institute of Lightweight Design and Structural Biomechanics (ILSB, TU Wien)
  • 2003 - 2004 Visiting Professor at the Institute for Material Mechanics, TU München, Munich; Germany
  • 1998 - 2007 Vice-Rector for Research at TU Wien
  • 1983 - 2003 Head of the Institute of Lightweight Structures and Aerospace Engineering (ILFB, TU Wien)
  • 1977 - 1983 VOEST ALPINE Linz, Austria; (finally Head of Department for Scientific Computing - Mechanics

Fields of Scholarship
  • Continuum mechanics
  • Thermal stresses
  • Composite materials and composite structures
  • Stability of structures
  • Finite element analysis
  • Structural mechanics
  • Computational materials science
  • Fracture mechanics
  • Biomechanics
  • Nano- and micro-mechanics of multi-phase materials

Honours and Awards
  • 1998 CDG Senior Fellow (Christian Doppler Research Assoc.)
  • 2001 Corr. Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)
  • 2002 IACM Fellow (Int. Assoc. for Comput. Mechanics)
  • 2005 Full Member of the Austrian Acacemy of Sciences (ÖAW)
  • 2016 Honorary Senator of the CDG (Christian Doppler Research Assoc.)
  • 2016 Viktor Kaplan Medal (Vienna University of Technology)

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