Project overview
InnoProfile transfer project "Lightweight Design with Structured Materials"
Funded as part of the InnoProfile Transfer programme
Building on the results of the InnoProfile project InnoStructure, which laid the foundations for the cutting, forming and joining of structured sheet metal, the research activities of the InnoProfile transfer project "Lightweight Design with Structured Materials" focus on the development of sustainable, resource-saving and energy-efficient lightweight construction methods. Through the constant Transfer of Knowledge and Technology from research to strategic cooperation with industry and business, new types of technology and product innovations are created.
Key data on the InnoProfile transfer project "Lightweight Design with Structured Materials"
- Follow-up research project, building on InnoStructure
Project duration: 03/2015 to 12/2019
Project team:
- Interdisciplinary junior research group
- 5 research assistants (doctoral candidates)
- 1 technical assistant
Research:
Oriented towards the needs of companies that characterise the regional economic profile
Head:
Endowed Junior Professorship Lightweight Design with Structured Materials
Funded exclusively by regional SMEs
Along the value-added chain, each task area is handled by one scientist. The demonstrators type 1 to 3 are realised in an interdisciplinary manner:
- Planning and innovation management
- CAD and forming process simulation
- Design, layout and production of joined components
- Generative manufacturing of complex components with structured functional surfaces
- Testing and characterisation of materials and components
Components made from structured sheet metal (demonstrator type 1)
Components made of structured multilayer composites (demonstrator type 2)
Components with structured functional surfaces (demonstrator type 3)
- Vehicle construction
- Single-shell construction
- Intensive moulding and joining processing
- Rail and commercial vehicle construction
- Sandwich construction
- Large component groups
- Power plant components and energy systems
- Manufactured generatively
- Complex component geometries