Main focus
- Arc welding
- Laser beam welding
- Plasma arc welding
- Plasma beam welding
- Submerged arc welding
- Resistance welding
- Pulse friction stir welding
- Hard and soft soldering
- Bonding
- Mechanical joining
- Thermal cutting
Powder-based
- Selective laser beam melting
- Laser powder cladding
- Plasma powder cladding
- 3D Printing
Wire / Filler Wire Based
- Laser wire buildup welding
- Arc build-up welding
- Plasma build-up welding
Filler metal development
- Powder
- Flux cored wire
- Material properties as a function of temperature, microstructure and strain rate
- Experimental simulation of joining processes
- Evaluation of joined joints under static, dynamic and cyclic loads
- Joining processes
- Additive manufacturing processes
- Thermal straightening
- Temperature distribution
- Change of the microstructure
- Warpage
- Residual stresses
- Gas diffusion
- Evaluation of the joints