Dr.-Ing. Anna Birzle

Contact

  • Room 1209
  • Email: birzle@lnm.mw.tum.de
  • Phone: +49 (0) 89 289 15255
  • Fax:     +49 (0) 89 289 15301

Research Interests

Teaching

Supervised student projects / theses

  • Igor Heinze: Image registration of uniaxial tension tests with collagenase and elastase treated lung parenchyma (HiWi, 2017)
  • Jana Steger: Development of an experimental method and a numerical model to characterize the material behavior of peripheral airways and vessels in the lung (Term Paper, 2017)
  • Katharina Plöckl: Inverse methods for the identification of the material behavior of lung tissue (Bachelor thesis, 2017)
  • Jana Steger: Image analysis and registration of uniaxial tension tests with lung parenchyma (HiWi, 2016/2017)
  • Benjamin Orthen: Multiple Inverse Analysis (MSE Research Internship, 2016/2017)
  • Sebastian Maltan: Experimental Determination and Numerical Modeling of the Mechanical Contribution of Collagen Fibers in Lung Parenchyma (Master thesis, 2016/2017)
  • Elias Lochner: Image analysis and registration of uniaxial tension tests with lung parenchyma (HiWi, 2016)
  • Stefan Schlegl: Numerical Meso-macro-modeling of the Geometric Properties of Lung Tissue (Bachelor thesis, 2016/2017)
  • Christoph Kugler: Experimental examination of lung tissue characteristics under long-term cyclic loading (Term paper, 2016)
  • Liwei Luo: Viscoelastic material model of fractional order for lung parenchyma (Term paper, 2016)
  • Bettina Müller: Image analysis and registration of uniaxial tension tests with lung parenchyma (HiWi, 2015/2016)
  • Elias Lochner: Macroscopic Modeling of Surface Tensions under the Influence of Surfactant in the Alveolar Tissue of the Lung (Bachelor thesis, 2015)
  • Michael Gmach: Numerical Investigation of a Material Model for Alveolar Tissue (Term paper, 2015)
  • Elias Lochner: Analysis of experimental measurements (HiWi, 2014/2015)

 Articles in Peer-Reviewed International Journals

  • Birzle A. M., Hobrack S., Martin C., Uhlig S., Wall W. A.,Constituent-specific Material Behavior of Soft Biological Tissue – Experimental Quantification and Numerical Identification for Lung Parenchyma, Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, submitted
  • Birzle A. M., Wall W. A., A Viscoelastic Nonlinear Compressible Material Model of Lung Parenchyma: Experiments and Numerical Identification, Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, submitted
  • Birzle A.M., Martin C., Uhlig S., Wall W.A. (2018): A Coupled Approach for Identification of Nonlinear and Compressible Material Models for Soft Tissue Based on Different Experimental Set-ups - Exemplified and Detailed for Lung Parenchyma, Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, submitted
  • Birzle A.M., Martin C., Yoshihara L., Uhlig S., Wall W.A. (2018): Experimental characterization and model identification of the nonlinear compressible material behavior of lung parenchyma, Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 77, 754-763
  • Müller K.W., Birzle A.M., Wall W.A. (2016): Beam finite-element model of a molecular motor for the simulation of active fibre networks, Proc. Royal Society A, 472: 2185

International Conference Contributions

  • Birzle AM, Martin C, Uhlig S, Wall WA (2017): Advanced experiments to characterize the material model of lung parenchyma, EUROMECH Colloquium 585: Advanced experimental methods in tissue biomechanics, Burg Warberg, Germany, February 12-16
  • Birzle AM, Martin C, Uhlig S, Wall WA (2016): Viscoelastic and compressible material model of lung parenchyma - experiments and numerical methods, 22nd Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics (ESB), Lyon, France, July 10-13
  • Wall WA, Roth CJ, Birzle AM, Yoshihara L. (2016): Comprehensive and Patient-Specific Computational Lung Modeling and a Novel Validation Approach, ECCOMAS Congress, Crete, Greece, June 5-10
  • Birzle AM, Wall WA (2015): An approach to develop a viscoelastic compressible material model for lung parenchyma, 3rd ECCOMAS Young Investigators Conference and 6th GACM Colloquium on Computational Mechanics (YIC GACM), Aachen, Germany, July 20-23

Education

  • 2014-2018, Research Associate at the Institute for Computational Mechanics (Lehrstuhl für Numerische Mechanik), TUM, Germany
  • 2014, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering, TUM, Germany