Materials Processing & Engineering

Competencies from processing technologies (materials processing) and materials engineering are pooled interdisciplinarily and across faculties in the Institute for Automotive Engineering and Mechatronics (IKM). 

Topics include:

• Materials testing and damage analysis (metals and plastics)
• Hardening processes and quality testing
• Surface analysis and determining the composition of materials
• Tribology and wear analysis
• The development of material-appropriate manufacturing processes along the supply chain
• Semi-finished production, forming and joining
• The development of forming and joining processes for bodywork construction
• The use of simulation techniques for manufacturing processes (sheet and solid forming, welding processes, artificial neural networks, multivariate data analysis)