Laura Engelhardt, M.Sc.
Contact
- Room: MW1232
- Email: laura.engelhardt@tum.de
- Phone: +49 (0) 89 28915268
Research interests
- Continuum-mechancial modelling and simulation of musculoskeletal systems
- Constitutive modelling of active skeletal muscle tissue
- Human shoulder biomechanics
- 4C - A Comprehensive Multi-Physics Simulation Framework
Teaching
- Numerical Biomechanics Lab (2021-2024)
Publications
Pre-prints
- L. Engelhardt, R. Sachse, R. Burgkart, W. A. Wall: Constitutive Models for Active Skeletal Muscle: Review, Comparison, and Application in a Novel Continuum Shoulder Model, 2024, DOI. Submitted.
International conference contributions with abstract
- L. Engelhardt, R. Sachse, R. Burgkart, W. A. Wall: An activation-driven musculoskeletal finite element model of the human shoulder, VPH, September 2024, Stuttgart, Germany
- L. Engelhardt, R. Sachse, R. Burgkart, W. A. Wall: Constitutive modeling of active skeletal muscle tissue in a continuum-mechanical model of the human shoulder, ICCB, September 2023, Vienna, Austria
- L. Engelhardt, R. Sachse, M. Grill, A. Gebauer, W. A. Wall: Continuum-Mechanical Modeling of the Human Shoulder, 9th GACM Colloquium on Computational Mechanics, September 2022, Essen, Germany
Supervised student projects
- G. Lee: Visualization of a Human Shoulder Model in VR: A Configurable Interactive Interface, Visualization Lab, 2024
- F. Ronge: History Dependence of Skeletal Muscle Force Production: Implementation and Investigation of a Constitutive Model, Research Practice, 2024
- J. L. Rehfeldt: Bayesian Analysis of Spatial Activation Distributions in Skeletal Muscle Models, Bachelor's Thesis, 2024 (in cooperation with Gil Robalo Rei)
- J. A. Hofer: Spatially and Temporally Varying Activation in a Continuum Mechanical Muscle Model, Bachelor's Thesis, 2024
- J. Parbel: Visualization of Complex Muscle Fiber Architectures in the Human Shoulder, Visualization Lab, 2024
- S. Dosch: Development of a Multipennate Fiber Architecture for a Continuum-Mechanical Model of the Human Deltoid Muscle, Term Paper, 2022
- L. M. Engstler: Investigation of an Active Strain Modeling Approach for the Constitutive Description of Skeletal Muscle, Bachelor's Thesis, 2022
- P. Geck: From Bone to Muscle: A Three-Dimensional Visualization of the Multi-Layered Structure of the Shoulder Joint, Visualization Lab, 2022
- J. T. Moll: Modelling of Tendon Morphology in a Continuum-Mechanical Model of the Human Deltoid, Bachelor's Thesis, 2022 (in cooperation with Renate Sachse)
- M. Ludwig: Implementation of an Ogden-Type Hyperelastic Material for Finite-Element Modeling of Traumatic Brain Injuries, Term Paper, 2021 (in cooperation with Renate Sachse)
- M. N. Brüch: Comparison of Constitutive Modelling Approaches for Active Skeletal Muscle, Bachelor's Thesis, 2021 (in cooperation with Renate Sachse)
- B. Temür: Mesoscale Modeling of Muscle Bundles Based on the Finite Element Method and the Geometrically Exact Beam Theory with Deformable Cross-Sections, Term Paper, 2021 (in cooperation with Renate Sachse and Christoph Meier)
Education
- since 2021 Research Associate at the Institute for Computational Mechanics, Technical University of Munich, Germany
- 2020 Master of Science (M.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Munich, Germany
- 2017 Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Munich, Germany