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Institute of Structural Analysis
 
Institute of Structural Analysis Institute Team
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Raimund Rolfes
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Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Raimund Rolfes

Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Raimund Rolfes
Phone
+49 511 762 2992
Fax
+49 511 762 2236
Email
r.rolfesisd.uni-hannover.de
Address
Appelstraße 9a
30167 Hannover
Building
3408
Room
426
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Raimund Rolfes
Phone
+49 511 762 2992
Fax
+49 511 762 2236
Email
r.rolfesisd.uni-hannover.de
Address
Appelstraße 9a
30167 Hannover
Building
3408
Room
426
Positions
Executive Director
Institute of Structural Analysis
Board of Directors
Testzentrum Tragstrukturen
Executive Board
Institute of Structural Analysis
Professors
Institute of Structural Analysis
Department Student Advisors
Course Guidance, Civil Engineering
  • Teaching
    • Statics
    • Beam Structures
    • Statically Indeterminate Structures
    • Slabs, Plates and Shells
    • Dynamics of Structures
    • Lightweight Composite Structures
    • Finite Element Applications in Structural Analysis
  • Professional Career
    2014 Offer of Professorship for Statics and Dynamics of Aerospace Structures at University of Stuttgart (declined)
    since 2014 Deputy Head / Head (alternating every two years) of New Test Center for Support Structures Hannover
    since 2010 Head of the research unit in Hanover of Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology (part-time)
    since 15.1.2005 Professor for Structural Analysis at University of Hannover
    1998 Habilitation (2nd Ph.D.) in Solid Mechanics at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of TU Dresden (Prof. G. Landgraf): Analysis of thermally and mechanically loaded composite plates
    1998 Head of Department „Structural Analysis“
    1997 Research Stay at Center for Advanced Computational Technology (NASA Langley and University of Virginia, Prof. A.K. Noor)
    1993 Deputy Head of Department „Thermo-Resistant Structures“
    1988 - 2005 Scientist at DLR Institute of Structural Mechanics (today: Institute for Composite Structures and Adaptive Systems)
    1986 - 1988 Ph.D. Student at Institute for Mechanics and Computational Mechanics ( University of Hannover, Prof. Erwin Stein); Ph.D. Thesis: On stability and convergence of mixed finite elements in linear elasticity theory
    1978 - 1985 Studies of Civil Engineering at University of Hannover
    1977 - 1978 Studies of Electrical Engineering at University of Hannover
  • Functions in university, foundations and in associations
    • Member of GAMM, GACM , European Cooperation on Standardization in Space (ECSS)
    • Founding Member European Aeronautics Science Network Association (EASN)
    • Member of the Board of ForWind (Wind Energy Research Center)
    • Steering Committee of FVWE (Research Alliance Wind Energy consisting of ForWind, Fraunhofer-IWES, DLR)
    • EERA (European Energy Research Alliance), Joint Programme Wind Energy
    • Board Member  EWAE (European Academy on Wind Energy)
    • Reviewer for DFG, STW (The Netherlands), ARC (Australia), FNR (Luxemburg), CCEM (Switzerland), REA (EU, FP7) and 20 international journals
    • International Peer Review Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano
    • International Research Assessment Group, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, TU Delft
  • Professional recognitions, awards & honors
    2016 Certificate for highly cited research in "Mechanics of Materials"
    2014 North German Science Award (as member of the German Research Alliance Wind Energy, FVWE)
    2012 Full member of der Braunschweigischen Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft
    2012 Eric Reissner Medal of ICCES (International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences)
    2010 Best Paper Award of International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics
    2000 Award of MSC.Software award for successful partnership in development
    1996 Sabbatical of DLR
    1992 US Air Force Window-on-Science Programm
    1980 - 1988 Fellowship of Cusanuswerk
  • Organisation / Co-Organisation of Conferences and Workshops

    Head of Organizing Committee:

    • 3rd ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on the Mechanical Response of Composites, 2011, Hannover, Deutschland
    • International Wind Engineering Conference IWEC, 2014, Hannover, Germany

    Member of Scientific Committees of 45 International Conferences since 2003

  • Publications

    More than 340 publications, (H=24 scopus, H=30 google scholar, link to google scholar)

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