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Cum laude for research plastic deformation martensite

Francesco Maresca of the Department of Mechanical Engineering has gained his PhD cum laude. He defended his PhD thesis, titled Multi-scale modeling of plasticity and damage of lath martensite in multi-phase steels, last Thursday in the Auditorium building of the university.

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The PhD thesis of Maresca is about lath martensite, a very hard but brittle form of steel. It is one the main constituents of in high strength steel grades employed in the automotive industry.

Maresca investigated the key physical mechanisms underlying the plastic deformation of martensite. Based on that he developed a computational model to describe plasticity and fracture of so-called multiphase steels, steel consisting of a mixture of martensite and softer forms of steel.

The promotor is professor Marc Geers, professor in Mechanics of Materials. Starting from November 2015, Maresca is working a post-doc researcher at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland.

Source: TU/e press team

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