Functional Compliance of Multifunctional Bondlines with Disbond Arrest and Health Monitoring Features for Safe and Efficient Composite Joints

Julian Steinmetz is a research associate in the group of Prof. Michael Sinapius at the TU Braunschweig Institute of Mechanics and Adaptronics. His focus area is multifunctional structures. As a doctoral student, he conducted research on multifunctional bondlines in close cooperation with the research groups of Prof. Hühne from the German Aerospace Centre in Braunschweig and Prof. Dietzel from the TU Braunschweig Institute of Microtechnology. Julian Steinmetz obtained his Bachelor's and Master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the TU Braunschweig. He was a visiting student in the research groups of Prof. Jonathan Cooper at the University of Bristol and Profs. Tsuyoshi Inoue and Kentaro Takagi at the Nagoya University.