Contact

• Room 1208
• Email: gitterle@lnm.mw.tum.de
• Phone: +49 (0) 89 289 15251
• Fax: +49 (0) 89 289 15301

Teaching

Engineering Mechanics: undergraduate courses on structural mechanics

• part 1 (Technische Mechanik 1 - Statik) WS 2006/2007
• part 2 (Technische Mechanik 2 - Elastostatik) SS 2007
• part 3 (Technische Mechanik 3 - Dynamik) WS 2007/2008

Research Interests and Projects

• Structural mechanics
• Contact mechanics, frictional contact for finite deformations
• Frictional contact with wear, towards fatigue phenomena
• Fully coupled thermo-mechanical contact
• Contact modeling for joints in aircraft engines, in cooperation with M.W.Gee, A.Popp and Rolls-Royce Germany, Ltd & Co KG

Publications

Articles in Peer-Reviewed International Journals

• Gitterle, M., Popp, A., Gee, M.W., Wall, W.A. (2010): Finite deformation frictional mortar contact using a semi-smooth Newton method with consistent linearization, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 84, pp. 543-571, DOI.
• Popp, A., Gitterle, M., Gee, M.W., Wall, W.A. (2010): A dual mortar approach for 3D finite deformation contact with consistent linearization, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 83, pp. 1428-1465, DOI.

International Conference Proceedings and Abstracts

• Popp, A., Gitterle, M., Klöppel, T., Gee, M.W., Wall, W.A. (2011): Coupling of non-conforming interface meshes in contact dynamics and fluid-structure interaction using mortar methods, In: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Plasticity (COMPLAS XI), E. Onate et al. (Eds.), Barcelona, Spain, September 7-9, 2011.
• Gitterle, M., Popp, A., Danowski, C., Gee, M.W., Wall, W.A. (2011): From finite deformation frictional to thermo-mechanical contact based on dual Mortar and semi-smooth Newton approaches, Abstract at the 11th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM11), Minneapolis, USA, July 25-29, 2011.
• Gitterle, M., Popp, A., Danowski, C., Gee, M.W., Wall, W.A. (2011): Dual mortar and semi-smooth Newton approaches for finite deformation frictional and thermo-mechanical contact problems, Abstract at the 2nd International Conference on Computational Contact Mechanics (ICCCM11), Hannover, Germany, June 15-17, 2011.
• Popp, A., Gitterle, M., Gee, M.W., Wall, W.A. (2011): Mortar methods with dual Lagrange multipliers for 3D finite deformation contact and multiphysics simulations, Abstract at the 2nd International Conference on Computational Contact Mechanics (ICCCM11), Hannover, Germany, June 15-17, 2011.
• Gitterle, M., Popp, A., Gee, M.W., Wall, W.A. (2010): 3D finite deformation frictional mortar contact using a semi-smooth Newton method with consistent linearization, Abstract at the 4th European Conference on Computational Mechanics (ECCM2010), Paris, France, May 16-21, 2010.
• Popp, A., Gitterle, M., Gee, M.W., Wall, W.A. (2009): An efficient dual mortar approach for 3D finite deformation contact including frictional sliding, In: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Computational Contact Mechanics (ICCCM09), G. Zavarise, P. Wriggers (Eds.), Lecce, Italy, September 16-18, 2009.
• Gitterle, M, Popp, A., Gee, M.W., Wall, W.A. (2009): Finite deformation frictional mortar contact using a primal-dual active set strategy, Abstract at the 3rd GACM Colloquium on Computational Mechanics, Hannover, Germany, September 21-23, 2009.
• Popp, A., Gitterle, M., Gee, M.W., Wall, W.A. (2009): A mortar method for finite deformation frictional contact using a primal-dual active set strategy, In: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Plasticity (COMPLAS X), E. Onate, D.R.J. Owen, B. Suárez (Eds.), Barcelona, Spain, September 2-4, 2009.

Book  Contribution

• Westfall, J., Maute, K.K, Klöppel, T., Popp, A., Gitterle, M., Wall, W.A. (2011): Nonlinear multi-physics coupling for non-conforming interfaces based on a dual mortar formulation, In: DFG Sonderforschungsbereich / Transregio 40, Proceedings of the Summer Program 2011, N.A. Adams et al. (Eds.), München, Germany, PDF. 
  

Publications during Studies and Employment as Civil Engineer

• Schütz K.G., Ehmann R. Gitterle M. (2006): Winderregte Hängerschwingungen bei Stabbogenbrücken - Baupraktische Nachweismodelle und Empfehlungen für ermüdungsgerechtes Konstruieren, Der Prüfingenieur 10/2006, 29, pp. 21-35, ISSN.
• Schütz K.G., Mohr B., Gitterle M. (2006): Die Pfarrkirche St. Michael in Bertoldshofen: Instandsetzung eines Kunstdenkmals, Bauen mit Holz 10/2006, pp. 15-21, ISSN 0005-6545.
• Schütz K.G., Gitterle M. (2005): Hanger vibrations at steel tied arch bridges - practical calculation models and construction in regard to fatigue, In: Proceedings of the 6th Japanese-German Bridge Symposium, München, Germany, 2005. 
• Lutzenberger S., Grundmann H., Gitterle M. (2004): Finite element simulation of the interaction train-guideway and evaluation of progressing soil damage, In: Proceedings of Euromech 452, Halle (Saale), Germany, March 1-4, 2004.

Myself

• 2004 Diplom-Ingenieur (diploma), Civil Engineering, TUM, Germany.
• 2004-2006 Coworker at Engineering Company Dr. Schütz Ingenieure, Germany. 
• 2006-2012 Research Associate at the Institute for Computational Mechanics (Lehrstuhl für Numerische Mechanik), TUM, Germany.