Materials / Processes

•    Technology screening
•    Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
•    Charakterisation
•    Economic Efficiency

Product
•    Stresses
•    Boundary Conditions

Materials•    Highstrength Steels•    Highstrength Aluminium Alloys•    FRP

Processes
•    Hot Forming (partial)
•    Partial Heat Treatment (induktive, resistance)
•    RTM, Prepreg-Pressing

Products•    Load Adapted Structures•    Cost Effectiveness•    Hybrid Structures

Materials•    Calculation of Phases•    Material Modells (isotropic / anisotropic)•    Charakterisation (Mechanical Properties / Failure)

Processes
•    Heat Treatment
•    Hybrid Manufacturing

Product
•    Static  (linear / nonlinear)
•    Dynamic
•    Numerical Optimization

Metallic Materials•    Hot forming / partial Hot forming•    Heat treatment (inductive, conductive, oven heating) •    Partial het treatment•    Additive processes

FRP
•    RTM
•    Prepreg-Pressing
•    Extrusion
•    Wet moulding
•    Fibre winding

Hybrids out of metallic materials and FRP

Validation
•    Quasistatic
•    Cyclic
•    Dynamic
•    Thermal Loading

Lightweight Products
•    Lightweight potential
•    Profitability analysis
•    Transfer analysis
•    Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)