Laura Engelhardt, M.Sc.

Contact

  • Room 1232
  • Email: laura.engelhardt@tum.de
  • Phone: +49 (0) 89 28915268
  • Fax: +49 (0) 89 289 15301 

Research Interests

  • Constitutive modelling of active skeletal muscle tissue
  • Continuum-mechancial modelling and simulation of human shoulder biomechanics

Teaching

Supervised Student Projects

  • Development of a Multipennate Fiber Architecture for a Continuum-Mechanical Model of the Human Deltoid Muscle, Simon Dosch, Term Paper, 2022.
  • Investigation of an Active Strain Modeling Approach for the Constitutive Description of Skeletal Muscle, Lisa Marie Engstler, Bachelor's Thesis, 2022.
  • From Bone to Muscle: A Three-Dimensional Visualization of the Multi-Layered Structure of the Shoulder Joint, Paulina Geck, Visualization Lab, 2022.
  • Modelling of Tendon Morphology in a Continuum-Mechanical Model of the Human Deltoid, Johannes Tobias Moll, Bachelor's Thesis, 2022. In cooperation with Renate Sachse
  • Implementation of an Ogden-Type Hyperelastic Material for Finite-Element Modeling of Traumatic Brain Injuries, Maximilian Ludwig, Term Paper, 2021. In cooperation with Renate Sachse
  • Comparison of Constitutive Modelling Approaches for Active Skeletal Muscle, Moritz Nils Brüch, Bachelor's Thesis, 2021. In cooperation with Renate Sachse
  • Mesoscale Modeling of Muscle Bundles Based on the Finite Element Method and the Geometrically Exact Beam Theory with Deformable Cross-Sections, Buğrahan Temür, Term Paper, 2021. In cooperation with Renate Sachse and Christoph Meier

Education

  • since 2021 Research Associate at the Institute for Computational Mechanics (Lehrstuhl für Numerische Mechanik), Technische Universität München, Germany
  • 2020 Master of Science (M.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering, Technische Universität München, Germany
  • 2017 Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering, Technische Universität München, Germany