Applied Mechanics

The Division of Applied Mechanics is part of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Applied mechanics is a broad field involving structures, solids and fluids. Our work mainly focuses on material and structural mechanics.
Welcome to Applied Mechanics
Seeing is believing, but measuring and computing are far more convincing! Modern experimental techniques, in combination with image analyses and high-precision computational methods, are our powerful tools for understanding the fundamental mechanical behavior of complex structures and materials over length and time scales.
Our research is multidisciplinary and spans from applied projects in close cooperation with industry to fundamental academic research. We develop computational models and use high-precision clusters for multiscale and multiphysics simulations. We develop experimental devices and capture three-dimensional deformation fields even at submicron scale. We fabricate and recycle composite materials with highest design freedom by additive manufacturing.
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Education
We teach in the Bachelor of Engineering programmes in civil engineering and mechanical engineering, as well as in mechanics courses in the Master of Engineering programmes.
We regularly give PhD courses in e.g. continuum mechanics and finite element modelling.
Information about programmes at the department can be found in the student entrance.
Undergraduate
- Structural Mechanics 1TE601, 1TE403
- Structural Design in Construction Engineering, 1TE443
- Solid Mechanics with FEM 1MI170
- Solid Mechanics 1TE654, 1TE607, 1TE635
- Applied Mechanics I & II 1TE760,1TM014
- Finite Element Analysis with Applications 1TM018
- Manufacturing methodologies Machine Elements 1TE631
- Machine Elements, 1TE790
Post graduate
Research Methodology, FTN0412
Multiphysics Modeling and Computation of Coupled and Nonlinear Problems
Advanced Continuum Mechanics
Doctoral studies
We regularly give doctoral courses in e.g. continuum mechanics and finite element modelling. If you want to become a doctoral student at the division, apply for an advertised doctoral position. We regularly give doctoral courses in e.g. continuum mechanics and finite element modelling.
More information about doctoral education at the department
Get to know our former PhD students
For more information about the specialisation, please contact Professor Kristofer Gamstedt.
Welcome to contact us
You are welcome to visit us at Ångströmlaboratoriet Lägerhyddsvägen 1, Uppsala.
Head of Division: Professor Mahmoud Mousavi, phone 018-471 62 82
Group members
Publications
Part of Mechanics of time-dependant materials, p. 3237-3261, 2024
An extended Rice model for intergranular fracture
Part of International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2025
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E-beam fluorinated CVD graphene: in-situ XPS study on stability and NH3 adsorption doping effect
Part of Nanotechnology, 2025
Tailored energy dissipation with viscoelastic architectured materials
Part of Mechanics of materials, 2025
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Part of Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics, p. 1629-1643, 2024
Part of Virtual and Physical Prototyping, 2025
- DOI for An experimental methodology to determine damage mechanics parameters for phase-field approach simulations using material extrusion-based additively manufactured tensile specimens
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Part of State of the Art and Future Trends in Materials Modelling 2, p. 1-16, Springer, 2024
Part of Computational Mechanics, p. 15-31, 2024
- DOI for Digital twin of surface acoustic wave transceivers for a computational design of an optimal wave guiding layer thickness
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Part of Fluids, 2024
- DOI for Investigating the Morphology of a Free-Falling Jet with an Accurate Finite Element and Level Set Modeling
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Unraveling Ice-Solid Interface Rupture Dynamics: Insights from Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Part of Langmuir, p. 17090-17097, 2024
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Lignin Hygroexpansion in Compression and Opposite Wood: a Molecular Dynamics study
Part of Wood Science and Technology, 2025
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Structure and hygroelastic properties of conifer branch wood: A multiscale approach
2024
Part of Carbon, 2024
Part of Wood Material Science & Engineering, p. 979-986, 2024
- DOI for Softwood branches modelled as a composite beam of compression and opposite wood: investigation of bending resistance
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A self-consistent void-based rationale for hydrogen embrittlement
Part of Scripta Materialia, 2025
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Load-bearing capacity of slender dowel-type fasteners in Timber-Concrete Composite connections
Part of Engineering structures, 2024
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Part of Wood Science and Technology, p. 887-906, 2024
- DOI for Characterisation of hygroelastic properties of compression and opposite wood found in branches of Norway spruce
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Part of International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 2024
- DOI for Multiphysics simulation of two-phase viscous fluid flow steered by electric field for jetting of microdroplets
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Tensile and Shear Creep Behavior of Structural Adhesives: Experiments and Modeling
Part of Applied Composite Materials, p. 739-764, 2024
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Part of International Journal of Solids and Structures, 2024
- DOI for Numerical analyses of brittle crack growth experiments in compression using a modified phase-field theory
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Part of Chemical Reviews, p. 6271-6392, 2024
- DOI for Hydrogen Embrittlement as a Conspicuous Material Challenge: Comprehensive Review and Future Directions
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Nonlinear dynamic behavior of carbon nanotubes incorporating size effects
Part of International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2024
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Nonlinear wave propagation in graphene incorporating second strain gradient theory
Part of Thin-walled structures, 2024
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Part of Computers & structures, 2024
- DOI for Computational simulation and acoustic analysis of two-dimensional nano-waveguides considering second strain gradient effects
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Experimental and numerical study on hydrogen-induced failure of X65 pipeline steel
Part of Materials Science & Engineering, 2024
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Part of Holzforschung, p. 98-108, 2024
- DOI for Structure, flexibility and hydration properties of lignin dimers studied with Molecular Dynamics simulations
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Part of Wood Material Science & Engineering, p. 2140-2149, 2023
- DOI for Moisture gradients in sawn timber during aggressive kiln drying investigated with X-ray computed tomography
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Part of Holzforschung, p. 793-815, 2023
- DOI for An overview of lab-based micro computed tomography aided finite element modelling of wood and its current bottlenecks
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Energy based methods applied in mechanics by using the extended Noether's formalism
Part of Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik, 2023
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Magnetron sputtered high entropy alloy/amorphous carbon nanocomposite coatings
Part of Materials Today Communications, 2023
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Part of Journal of Materials Science & Technology, p. 225-236, 2024
- DOI for Hydrogen trapping and diffusion in polycrystalline nickel: The spectrum of grain boundary segregation
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An improved trabecular bone model based on Voronoi tessellation
Part of Journal of The Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 2023
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Part of Mechanics of time-dependant materials, 2023
Creep aspects of softwood from the cell-wall level to structures
2023
Feasiblity of wooden towers for offshore wind turbines: Creep and fatigue predictions
A micro-CT investigation of densification in pressboard due to compression
Part of Strain, 2023
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Part of International Journal of Impact Engineering, 2023
- DOI for Realization of shorter substitutes for a percussive rock drill hammer by periodic redistribution of its mass and compliance
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Part of Holzforschung, 2023
- DOI for Microscopic computed tomography aided finiteelement modelling as a methodology to estimatehygroexpansion coefficients of wood: a case studyon opposite and compression wood in softwoodbranches
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Part of Bioengineering, 2023
- DOI for Analytical Study of Stress Distributions around Screws in Flat Mandibular Bone under In-Plane Loading
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An Introduction to Piezoelectric and Thermoelectric Materials
Part of Handbook of Energy Materials, p. 1-18, Springer, 2022
Part of Sixty Shades of Generalized Continua, p. 631-644, Springer, 2023
Dissipative Mechano-Electro-Magnetism Simulations in Electronic Components
Part of Sixty Shades of Generalized Continua, p. 463-478, Springer, 2023
Effects of 3-D Printing Infill Density Parameter on the Mechanical Properties of PLA Polymer
Part of Sixty Shades of Generalized Continua, p. 1-12, Springer, 2023
Part of Applied Composite Materials, p. 987-1001, 2023
- DOI for Nonlinear Material Modeling for Mechanical Characterization of 3-D Printed PLA Polymer With Different Infill Densities
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Part of Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik, 2023
Linear and Nonlinear Mechanics of Lattice Materials: Computational Modelling and Experiments
2023