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)