Forming of hybrid materials
Overview
Hybrid material systems offer many advantages, e.g. in terms of reducing CO2 emissions. Unfortunately, the technical production prerequisites are still lacking for the cost-effective manufacture of components from these new materials in an industrial environment. In addition to the corresponding basic research, current research work at the LUF is focussing on the investigation and development of adapted design methods, tooling and production machines as well as the process control strategies required for their successful use. Figure 1 shows an example of the schematic sequence of a "method planning" for the production of a sheet metal moulded part from a FRP-metal hybrid. Based on this, Figure 2 shows a tape laying head designed at the LUF in order to be able to produce the hybrid blanks designed as part of the method planning.
Funding organisations
The HyOpt research project on which the above-mentioned topics are based is currently being sponsored by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the EU with funds from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
