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Every year, the LOIFT (Chair Orientation, Information and Research Fair of the Mechanical Engineering Student Association) takes place at TUM after the IKOM. This year, the Chair of Carbon Composites was once again represented alongside many other chairs from the Mechanical… [read more]

Five colleagues from the Chair of Carbon Composites at the Technical University of Munich participated in the 21st European Conference on Composite Materials (ECCM21) in Nantes, France, from 2-5 July 2024. We had a great exchange with researchers from all over the world about the… [read more]

The SULUWHIR research project has been launched at the Chair of Carbon Composites at the Technical University of Munich. The ZIM cooperation project with industrial partners RAMPF Composite Solutions, Roeder Praezision GmbH and Kaelin Aero Technologies GmbH aims to develop… [read more]

Recently, our colleague Oliver Schwahofer presented his research at the "9th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering - ECCOMAS 2024" in Lisbon, Portugal. Over the course of the five-day congress, an international group of scientific… [read more]

As part of the TUM Entdeckerinnen: MINT experience at the university, we offer a project on 3D printing. This will take place from 29.07.2024-30.07.2024 at the Chair of Carbon Composites in Garching. Our target group are young girls aged 10-12 years or 5th-6th grade who are… [read more]

Last Friday, the kick-off meeting for our new LuFo project Recompile took place at the Fraunhofer IGCV in Augsburg.  In this project, together with our partners IGCV and Kasaero GmbH, we will develop a method for the design of redundant structures for eVTols, aeroplanes and… [read more]

Last week, the ACHEMA trade show took place in Frankfurt/ M. as the world forum for the process industries. Manufacturers and service providers from more than 50 nations showcased their products for chemical, pharmaceutical, and biotech research and production alongside energy… [read more]

The kick-off meeting for the project ADAPT-H2-Tanks took place on May 17, 2024. The project with the title “Adaptive Design for Advanced Performance of Type 4 H2 Tanks” is funded within the IraSME network by the German Central Innovation Programme for small and medium-sized… [read more]

We congratulate Christian on the successful completion of his doctorate at the LCC. He wrote his dissertation on ‘Enhancing composite crushing prediction with strain-rate-dependent numerical models’. He worked on the CraCPit project, which dealt with the design of crash… [read more]

At the Chair of Carbon Composites, the project "Material-efficient and cycle-time-optimized industrialization of 700 bar H2 pressure tanks - MaTaInH2" was successfully completed at the end of last year (December 2023). The project aimed to develop a marketable solution for… [read more]