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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...

Marc Gadinger joined the Lightweight Design Group as a research assistant in October. He previously studied mechanical engineering at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. In his scientific work and as a student research assistant at the KTmfk, he already studied the fatigue behaviour o...

Understanding the operating conditions of rolling bearings is the basis for safe operation and predictive maintenance to save resources and costs. However, in many cases it is difficult to implement the necessary sensors in rolling bearings, e.g. due to the requirement of space neutrality. In collab...

The fact that the lecture does not have to be purely theoretical is shown by the diverse demonstrators that are integrated into the courses at KTmfk. Technology to touch - this is how machine elements become accessible. The KTmfk is therefore particularly pleased about the generous donation of vario...

This year's strategy meeting of the KTmfk took place from September 19 to 22 in Riederau at the Ammersee. The first days were devoted to the organization of the department, the handover of tasks and the review of goals, as well as the identification and development of new research projects. In small...

The Gesellschaft für Tribologie e.V. (Society for Tribology) again organized this year's Tribology Conference, already in its 64th year, which took place from September 25th to 27th in Göttingen. This time the KTmfk was represented by Mr. Neusser and Dr. Bartz. Mr. Neusser gave a presentation on the...

This year's DfX Symposium took place on 14. and 15.09.23 in Radebeul. The KTmfk contributed to the successful event with several presentations and posters. Thematically, the contributions included our research in the fields of continuous simulation of continuous fiber-reinforced composites, user-cen...

In this systematic literature research we identified different approaches to simulate postural control. The different approaches are discussed regarding their applied biomechanical models, sensory representation, sensory integration, and control methods in standing and gait simulations. For postural...

The student working group EVOLONIC at FAU has developed a drone that will detect forest fires at a very early stage in the future, saving valuable time for firefighting. Participants from EVOLONIC attended the KTmfk elective course (Prof. Wartzack) Concept Development of Innovative Products (KIP) an...

Patients suffering from foot drop show a disturbed gait pattern and have a higher risk of stumbling and falling. A passive ankle-foot orthosis is usually used for treatment. In order for the orthosis to treat the patient in an optimal way, the applied support of the orthosis must be in accordance wi...

It is undeniable that mechanical properties, such as stiffness or residual strength of composites, are adversely affected by fatigue damage. In order to quantify and predict this damage influence, Witzgall and Wartzack developed a calculation approach for the subgroup of short-fibre-reinforced therm...

Klara Feile joined the research group for machine elements and tribology as a research assistant at the beginning of September. Previously, she studied mechanical and medical engineering at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Within student theses as well as a student assistant at...

During the summer semester, Prof. Moh'd Sami Ashhab, an expert in mechatronic systems in mechanical engineering at Hashemite University, visited KTmfk for a three-week research stay. In addition to initiating joint research projects, he was able to use the time to share his knowledge with the mechan...

The 24th International Conference on Wear of Materials (WOM) was hosted in Banff, Canada from April 16-20, 2023. The conference is focused on advances in understanding the fundamental and applied aspects of wear and friction of materials. Unique to the conference is the paper submission process, whi...

The International Society of Posture & Gait Research (ISPGR) World Congress took place in Brisbane, Australia from 09 – 13 July. Our institute was represented by a team member (Julian Shanbhag) from the research area user-centered design, who presented our current research in the field of postur...

At the same time as the Bayreuth Festival, the 6th YTRS took place in Bayreuth from July 24 to 25. At the Chair of Engineering Design and CAD under the patronage of Prof. Dr. Stephan Tremmel, young researchers and students were able to present their research subjects and ideas at the symposium. Almo...

The International Conference of Engineering Design (ICED), the flagship conference of the Design Society, took place this year in Bordeaux with over 600 participants. The Chair of Engineering Design KTmfk was represented with eight exciting presentations on various topics and made a lasting impressi...

The 33rd International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) was held in Honolulu, Hawaii from July 15-20. The International Symposium is the largest international conference on systems engineering and combines research, industrial application and teaching. Together ...

The potentials of digital engineering for SMEs are undisputed. Unfortunately, there is no current overview of already realised applications, best-practices and use-cases of these methods in mechatronic product development, which currently leads to comparatively little usage of these methods. In our ...

Simon Schleifer joined the Digital Engineering group as a research assistant at the beginning of July. Previously, he studied mechatronics at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. As part of an INI.FAU project, he is working on the use of artificial intelligence in model-based systems ...

The 28th congress of the European Society for Biomechanics took place in Maastricht (Link) from 09 - 12 July. Our institute was represented by 3 members from the research area user-centered design. They presented the current research results of the KTmfks in a presentation (Mr. Scherb) and a poster ...

After more than 6 years of joint research work in two funding phases, the DFG-funded research group FOR2271 "Process-oriented tolerance management based on virtual computer-aided engineering tools" was concluded on 04.07.23 in the context of a colloquium. The KTmfk worked on a subproject and was spe...