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Simone Hermann
Doctoral Researcher
Research Areas B and Demonstrators | Agnes Pockels Fellow Recipient 2022
Cluster of Excellence livMatS @ FIT – Freiburg Center for Interactive Materials and Bioinspired Technologies
Phone: +49 761 203 5650
Email: simone.hermann@livmats.uni-freiburg.de
Project
The non-local meta-material of the pomelo peel for bio-inspired long-fiber reinforcement
The peel of the pomelo fruit (Citrus maxima) exhibits extraordinarily good properties for cushioning against impacts and converting a local deposition of energy into a global dissipation. Through mathematical investigation, I intend to gain a deeper understanding of the underlying mechanisms of the delocalization of energy dissipation in the pomelo peel. My aim is to classify idealized (bio-)mechanical material geometry systems and obtain explicit formulae for effective properties from their microstructure. These results may be used for developing materials with custom-tuned effective properties.