Fairs|Events

Control is a specialist event available to suppliers and users, which in theory sheds light on all aspects and in practice presents the current world range of usable technologies, processes, products and system solutions for industrial quality assurance. We will be on site with experts from our "Material Characterization and Testing" department and provide information on non-destructive testing with terahertz technology.

[HANNOVER MESSE cannot be held this year. The reason is the increasingly critical situation due to the Covid 19 pandemic. The next HANNOVER MESSE will take place from 12 to 16 April 2021.] HANNOVER MESSE is the world's most important industrial fair. It takes place every spring at the Hannover Exhibition Grounds, the world's largest exhibition center. We present the latest results of our research together with a joint stand of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. Our spin-off fleXstructures will also be present at our stand.

Event Postponed! The 6th International Commercial Vehicle Technology Symposium addresses different aspects of commercial vehicle development and production. With regard to energy and resource efficiency, the topic of innovative drives with alternative fuels will be focused on. Another challenge is safety, reliability and life expectancy, which is becoming more and more relevant as part of automation. Not only is the improvement of the system components important for innovative commercial vehicles, but also new concepts for their operation must be found in order to increase productivity. Remote diagnostics or cloud solutions are also trends which must be pursued more intensively in the commercial vehicle sector. In order to improve the development and production process, it is important to use more and more powerful simulation tools and methods.

In the last 30 years computer simulation has become an indispensable tool of automotive development. Despite of significant progress in simulation technology and impressive results in industrial application there remains a number of challenges. The automotive CAE Grand Challenge stimulates the exchange between users, scientists and software developers in order to solve these challenges. We are on site with our experts from the department »Transportation Processes«, among others Dr. Jörg Kuhnert reports about our software tool MESHFREE.

For the eighth time, PaintExpo will showcase innovations, applications, future technologies and trends covering all aspects of coating. It presents the full spectrum of international product and service offerings in the field of industrial coating technology throughout the entire value creation chain. We are on site with a booth and a team from our department »Materials Characterization and Testing«.

The trade fair INDEX in Geneva is an international trade fair for nonwovens. About 580 exhibitors will present their latest products and services at the fair. We will be on site with a team from the department »Transport Processes« and present our expertise and research on technical textiles and nonwovens.

Expert Sessions Projection Methodes - a weekly webinar with high-level academic specialists working on various industrial applications.

[only available in German] Herkömmlich unterscheiden sich die Konzepte der Schwing- (Betriebs-) Festigkeit und Bruchmechanik bei zyklischer Beanspruchung darin, dass erstere Gesamtlebensdauern und Schwingfestigkeiten (Wöhlerkurven), letztere hingegen Restlebensdauern von Strukturen mit bereits längeren Rissen ermitteln. Will man das Bruchmechanik-Konzept auf den Bereich der Schwingfestigkeit ausdehnen, so müssen mehrere Probleme gelöst werden. Am Vormittag sind zwei Einführungsvorträge vorgesehen, die die wissenschaftlichen Grundprinzipien erläutern. Der Nachmittag beinhaltet einen Übungsteil, bei dem die Teilnehmer mitmilfe von Computersoftware selbst einfache Analysen durchführen sollen. An eine Einführung in das Programm schließen sich mehrere Übungseinheiten an.

[only available in German] Schwerpunkte auf der diesjährigen Tagung des Arbeitskreis Betriebsfestigkeits des DVM sind: die Herausforderungen neuer Mobilitätskonzepte, Werkstoff- und Konstruktionskonzepte, Fertigungstechnologien sowie Lastannahmen und Nachweismethoden. Die Tagung richtet sich auch in diesem Jahr nicht nur an angehende und etablierte Betriebsfestigkeitsexperten der Automobil-Industrie, sondern an Mitarbeiter aller Technikbereiche, die sich mit der Lebensdauer von Bauteilen und Bauteilsystemen auseinandersetzen.

Every two years, internationally outstanding scientists from universities, research institutions and industry meet in Kaiserslautern to discuss the latest mathematical methods in process engineering. The workshop, organized by the High Performance Center, offers a unique opportunity for scientific discussions and personal networking between researchers from science and practice to communicate and shape the topics of future process engineering.

Semi-infinite optimization, i.e., the solution of optimization problems with infinitely many constraints (SIP), has been intensively studied over the last decades. The progress of computer technology has enhanced SIP methodology significantly. On the one hand, solution methods for this problem class have been increasingly developed and refined. On the other hand, high-dimensional problems, as they often occur in practice, have become numerically tractable. As a result, the range of possible applications has evolved considerably and semi-infinite optimization has been increasingly applied to practical problems in recent years.