Partners

The Scientific Coordinator will be Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sven Wießner at IPF Dresden, assisted by his scientific co-workers, Dr. Amit Das and Dr.-Ing. Eric Euchler. Prof. Wießner has more than 14 years of experience in coordinating third-party-funded projects, including projects funded by the BMWi (German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Ener-gy), AiF (German Federation for Industrial Research Associations) and DFG (German Research Foundation). Prof. Wießner will be responsible for the day-to-day scientific planning and management of the project and will oversee all activities required for pro-gress monitoring and control according to the work plan.

The administrative coordination will be managed by the IPF “EU-project-office” led by Stefan Schwurack. He is responsible for the implementation of organizational and administrative activities concerning financial plans, cost follow-up, reporting and contract management.

Research Division Elastomers, Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dres-den e.V. (IPF), Dresden Germany

Role in the project: Coordination and conception, mixing, processing, characterizing of elastomers

Centre of Polymer Systems, Tomas Bata University (TBU), Zlin Czech Republic

Role in the project: Mechanical and fracture-mechanical analysis of self-healing elastomers

Institute for Structural Analysis, Technische Universität Dresden (TUD), Dresden Germany

Role in the project: Development of theoretical-numerical simulation approaches, parameter identifica-tion, structural simulation

Laboratoire de Mécanique et d’Acoustique Aix-Marseille University (LMA), Marseille France

Role in the project: Material modeling and numerical implementation, identification of the material parameters