Prof. Dr.-Ing. Manuela Waltz

Deputy Women's Representative, Programme director and Academic advisor Automotive Engineering

+49 841 9348-3530

Manuela.Waltz@thi.de

Room: A232

Subject Area: Engineering Mechanics

Research

Operational strength of elastomer components
Vibration resistance of joints

Vita

Since 2008: Professor at THI
2004-2008: AUDI AG: Engineer in the department "Structural Durability, Body and Complete Vehicle".
1999-2004: Laboratory for Lightweight Construction: Doctorate with the topic "Dynamic Behaviour of Rubber-Sprung Wheels
1999-2001: RWTH Aachen: Postgraduate studies in the field of "Automotive Engineering".
1994-1998: Studies in Aerospace Engineering

Publications

2024

ERNST, Benedikt , Paul KUBASCHINSKI , Andreas SCHIESSL , Manuela WALTZ , Heinz Werner HÖPPEL and Ulrich TETZLAFF , 2024 . Comparison of the Young’s modulus of the lead free solder alloy Sn-Ag3.8-Cu0.7 determined by hot tensile tests, ultrasonic measurements and ????-Sn single crystal calculations . Materials Science and Engineering: A , 2024 , 147354 . ISSN 1873-4936. Available at : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2024.147354

GOTTWALT, Albin , Paul KUBASCHINSKI , Manuela WALTZ and Ulrich TETZLAFF , 2024 . Influence of Subsequent Heat Treatment on Fatigue Behavior of Shear-Cut Electrical Steel Sheets . Alloys , 3 , 281-294 . ISSN 2674-063X. Available at : https://doi.org/10.3390/alloys3040017

2023

GOTTWALT, Albin , Paul KUBASCHINSKI , Manuela WALTZ , Rainer VÖLKL , Uwe GLATZEL and Ulrich TETZLAFF , 2023 . Cyclic deformation behavior of non-oriented electrical steel sheets . Materials Science and Engineering: A , 2023 , 145684 . ISSN 0921-5093. Available at : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2023.145684

GOTTWALT, Albin , Paul KUBASCHINSKI , Manuela WALTZ and Ulrich TETZLAFF , 2023 . Influence of the cutting method on the fatigue life and crack initiation of non-oriented electrical steel sheets . International Journal of Fatigue , 2024 , 108073 . ISSN 1879-3452. Available at : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2023.108073

KUBASCHINSKI, Paul , Albin GOTTWALT , Ulrich TETZLAFF , Holm ALTENBACH and Manuela WALTZ , 2023 . Modelling and simulation of the hardness profile and its effect on the stress‐strain behaviour of punched electrical steel sheets . Materials Science & Engineering Technology , 54 , 512-526 . ISSN 0933-5137. Available at : https://doi.org/10.1002/mawe.202200283

2022

GOTTWALT, Albin , Paul KUBASCHINSKI , Manuela WALTZ , Uwe GLATZEL and Ulrich TETZLAFF , 2022 . An experimental setup for fatigue testing of thin electrical steel sheets . International Journal of Fatigue , 2022 , 106987 . ISSN 0142-1123. Available at : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2022.106987

KUBASCHINSKI, Paul , Albin GOTTWALT , Ulrich TETZLAFF , Holm ALTENBACH and Manuela WALTZ , 2022 . Calibration of a combined isotropic-kinematic hardening material model for the simulation of thin electrical steel sheets subjected to cyclic loading . Materials Science & Engineering Technology , 53 , 422-439 . ISSN 1521-4052. Available at : https://doi.org/10.1002/mawe.202100341

KUBASCHINSKI, Paul , Albin BARUTH , Ulrich TETZLAFF , Holm ALTENBACH and Manuela WALTZ , 2022 . Untersuchungen zur Ermittlung der zyklischen Kennwerte von dünnem Elektroblech im Rahmen der rechnerischen Lebensdauerabschätzung . Betriebsfestigkeit - Wissensmanagement und Methodenentwicklung entlang der Wertschöpfungskette. Page 163-178. Available at : https://doi.org/10.48447/BF-2022-014

2020

THAMBI, Joel Luther , Ulrich TETZLAFF , Andreas SCHIESSL , Klaus-Dieter LANG and Manuela WALTZ , 2020 . Evaluation of the relationship between stress and lifetime of Pb-free solder joints subjected to vibration load using a generalized local stress approach . Microelectronics Reliability , 2020 , 113560 . ISSN 0026-2714. Available at : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.microrel.2019.113560

2017

THAMBI, Joel Luther , Andreas SCHIESSL , Manuela WALTZ , Klaus-Dieter LANG and Ulrich TETZLAFF , 2017 . Modified Constitutive Creep Laws With Micromechanical Modeling of Pb-Free Solder Alloys . Journal of Electronic Packaging , 139 , 031002 . ISSN 1528-9044. Available at : https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4035850

2016

THAMBI, Joel Luther , Ulrich TETZLAFF , Andreas SCHIESSL , Klaus-Dieter LANG and Manuela WALTZ , 2016 . High cycle fatigue behaviour and generalized fatigue model development of lead-free solder alloy based on local stress approach . Microelectronics Reliability , 98-105 . ISSN 0026-2714. Available at : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.microrel.2016.10.004