Year: 2023

The latest KTmfk publication, authored by Christian Witzgall and Sandro Wartzack, was selected for the cover story of the December issue of the journal Applied Mechanics. The publication deals with the crash simulation of mechanically fatigued, short-fiber-reinforced thermoplastics at component leve...

The Chair of Design Engineering congratulates Fabian Dworschak on successfully passing his doctoral examination for the degree of Dr.-Ing. on 24.11.2023. Mr. Dworschak presented the contents of his dissertation entitled "Self-reinforcing learning as a contribution to the automation of adaptation des...

Unavoidable geometric variations are limited explicitly by geometrical and dimensional tolerances to ensure that technical systems fulfill their function despite manufacturing inaccuracies. However, in doing so, the requirements for the subsequent manufacturing and, thus, the costs are implicitly se...

On 29th of November this year's Munich Symposium on Lightweight Design took place at the TUM in Munich with a focus on optimization and additive manufacturing. Stephan Freitag represented the KTmfk and gave a presentation on the continuous and optimal design and layout of fiber-reinforced structures...

A new KTmfk paper deals with the fatigue damage of components made from short fibre-reinforced thermoplastics. These are damaged by repeated loading, which leads to a significant deterioration of the mechanical properties. The method presented by Witzgall and Wartzack enables a realistic simulation ...

The German chapter of the INCOSE (GfSE) hosted the “Day of Systems Engineering” from November 15 – 17, 2023 in Würzburg. Simon Schleifer represented the KTmfk and gave a presentation entitled “Potential analysis of SysML-based modelling of systems and processes in the context of tolerance management...

The kick-off of the DFG research project ZoE took place on 2nd of November in Hamburg. In cooperation with the Institute of Product Development and Mechanical Engineering Design at the Hamburg University of Technology, we have prepared the investigation of the fatigue behaviour of fibre-reinforced p...

Congratulations to Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Benjamin Schleich who completed his habilitation in the field of engineering design and virtual product development. The title of his thesis is „Automatic information processing in tolerance management in the context of industry 4.0“. The supervisors were Pro...

E-Mobility and lightweight design pose new challenges in the development of vehicle chassis, especially in terms of ensuring durability. Therefore, in collaboration with our industry partner MAN Truck & Bus SE in Munich, an approach to design real hardware test rigs in a virtual environment has ...

The ongoing optimization of the KTmfk's lectures represents an important focus of our work. The positive development of the evaluation results shows that our efforts are successful with the students. In the evaluations of the finished summer semester, this time all classes of the KTmfk were rated "v...