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Christian Bleiler

Dr.-Ing.

Lecturer
Senior Scientist

Contact

+49 711 685 65853

Pfaffenwaldring 5a
70569 Stuttgart
Deutschland
Room: 02.015

Subject

  • Continuum (bio)mechanics
    • Modelling of deformable bodies 
    • Variational principles
    • Constitutive material theory
    • Modelling internally constrained materials
  • Multiscale mechanics and homogenisation theory
    • Material modelling across scales
    • Analytical homogenisation methods
    • Tangent-second-order methods for hyperelastic composites
    • Network models for fibrous microstructures
  • Skeletal muscle and soft tissue mechanics
    • Multiscale constitutive modelling of skeletal muscle tissue
    • Collagen fibre mechanics
    • Bottom-up estimation of macroscopic material properties 
    • Statistical description of tissue microstructures
  • Porous media mechanics
    • Modelling multiphase materials with different states of matter
    • Modelling fluid-saturated porous media
    • Modelling medical injection processes (vertebroplasty)
    • Image-based permeability estimation

  1. 2024

    1. Villota-Narvaez, Y., Bleiler, C., & Röhrle, O. (2024). Data sharing in modeling and simulation of biomechanical systems in interdisciplinary environments. GAMM-Mitteilungen, 47(2), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.1002/gamm.202370006

  2. 2022

    1. Bleiler, C., & Röhrle, O. (2022). Strain Measures and Energies for Crimped Fibres and Novel Analytical Expressions for Fibre Populations: Ingredients for Structural Fibre Network Models. Journal of Elasticity, 150, 401–448. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10659-022-09920-5
    2. Bleiler, C., & Röhrle, O. (2022). Classification of Biomechanical Models: The Wrong Battle Between Phenomenological and Structural Approaches, the Partly Underestimated Strength of Phenomenology and Challenges for Future (Clinical) Applications. In Solid (Bio) mechanics: Challenges of the Next Decade (pp. 335--352). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92339-6_14

  3. 2021

    1. Trivedi, Z., Bleiler, C., Gehweiler, D., Gueorguiev-Rüegg, B., Ricken, T., Wagner, A., & Röhrle, O. (2021). Simulating vertebroplasty: A biomechanical challenge. PAMM, 20, e202000313. https://doi.org/10.1002/pamm.202000313
    2. Klotz, T., Bleiler, C., & Röhrle, O. (2021). A Physiology-Guided Classification of Active-Stress and Active-Strain Approaches for Continuum-Mechanical Modeling of Skeletal Muscle Tissue. Frontiers in Physiology, 12, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2021.685531
    3. Bleiler, C., Ponte Castañeda, P., & Röhrle, O. (2021). Tangent second-order homogenisation estimates for incompressible hyperelastic composites with fibrous microstructures and anisotropic phases. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 147, 104251. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2020.104251

  4. 2019

    1. Trivedi, Z., Bleiler, C., Wagner, A., & Röhrle, O. (2019). A parametric permeability study for a simplified vertebra based on regular microstructures. PAMM, 19(1), Article 1.
    2. Bleiler, C., Ponte Castañeda, P., & Röhrle, O. (2019). A microstructurally-based, multi-scale, continuum-mechanical model for the passive behaviour of skeletal muscle tissue. Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 97, 171--186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmbbm.2019.05.012

  5. 2017

    1. Bleiler, C., Ponte Castañeda, P., & Röhrle, O. (2017). A homogenisation method for the multiscale modelling of transversely isotropic skeletal muscle tissue. PAMM, 17(1), Article 1.
    2. Bleiler, C., Ponte Castañeda, P., & Röhrle, O. (2017). A novel microstructurally-based material model to describe passive skeletal muscle tissue. In J. M. Floryan (Ed.), Contributions to the Foundations of Multidisciplinary Research in Mechanics (Vol. 3, pp. 1921–1922). IUTAM.

  6. 2016

    1. Heidlauf, T., Klotz, T., Rode, C., Altan, E., Bleiler, C., Siebert, T., & Röhrle, O. (2016). A multi-scale continuum model of skeletal muscle mechanics predicting force enhancement based on actin--titin interaction. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, 15(6), Article 6. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10237-016-0772-7
    2. Bleiler, C., Ponte Castañeda, P., & Röhrle, O. (2016). Multiscale modelling of skeletal muscle tissue by incorporating microstructural effects. PAMM, 16(1), Article 1.

  7. 2015

    1. Bleiler, C., Wagner, A., Stadelmann, V. A., Windolf, M., Köstler, H., Boger, A., Gueorguiev-Rüegg, B., Ehlers, W., & Röhrle, O. (2015). Multiphasic modelling of bone-cement injection into vertebral cancellous bone. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, 31(1), Article 1.
    2. Bleiler, C., Ponte Castañeda, P., & Röhrle, O. (2015). Towards effective mechanical properties of skeletal muscle tissue via homogenisation. PAMM, 15(1), Article 1.

  8. 2014

    1. Bleiler, C., Wagner, A., Stadelmann, V., Windolf, M., Gueorguiev-Rüegg, B., Köstler, H., Boger, A., Ehlers, W., & Röhrle, O. (2014). Multiphasic Modelling of the Vertebral Bone for Cement-Injection Studies. PAMM, 14(1), Article 1.
  • May 2022 – today: Lecturer/Senior Scientist, Chair for Continuum Biomechanics and Mechanobiology, Institute for Modelling and Simulation of Biomechanical Systems, University of Stuttgart
  • Apr 2021 – Apr 2022: Research Associate, Chair for Continuum Biomechanics and Mechanobiology, Institute for Modelling and Simulation of Biomechanical Systems
  • Jun 2019 – Apr 2021: Research Assistant, Chair for Continuum Biomechanics and Mechanobiology, Institute for Modelling and Simulation of Biomechanical Systems
  • May 2016 – July 2016: Visiting Associate with Prof. Pedro Ponte Castañeda, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania
  • Jan 2013 – May 2019: Research Assistant, Continuum Biomechanics and Mechanobiology Research Group, Institute of Applied Mechanics
  • Nov 2012: Diploma (Dipl.-Ing.) in Civil Engineering at the University of Stuttgart
  • 2007 – 2012: Studies in Civil Engineering at the Universities of Karlsruhe and Stuttgart

Reviewer for the following scientific journals:

  • Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology
  • European Journal of Mechanics - A/Solids
  • Frontiers in Physiology
  • GAMM-Mitteilungen
  • International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering
  • Journal of Psychosomatic Research
  • Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials
  • Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
  • Scientific Reports

Member of the organisation committee of the VPH (virtual physiologcial human) conference 2024 in Stuttgart (conference chairs: Prof. Oliver Röhrle & Prof. Tim Ricken). September 4-6, 2024.

Organisation of conference minisymposia:

  • Current trends in modelling and simulation of biological systems: numerics, application and data integration, 10th GACM Colloquium on Computational Mechanics, Vienna, September 10-13, 2023. Jointly organised with Sebastian Brandstaeter, Lena Lambers and Renate Sachse.
  • Computational biomechanics and biomedical engineering of active biological systems - from methods to clinical application, 9th GACM Colloquium on Computational Mechanics, Essen, September 21-23, 2022. Jointly organised with Lena Lambers and Renate Sachse.
  • Numerical methods in biomechanics, 8th GACM Colloquium on Computational Mechanics, Kassel, August 28-30 2019. Jointly organised with Tillmann Wiegold.
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