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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]

At the Chair of Carbon Composites, a significant success has been achieved: Two dedicated students have completed their master's theses and practically implemented their theoretical considerations in ski construction. The two students delved deeply into potential lightweight… [read more]

In mid-October 2023, the position in the project LargeDuroPrint was staffed after an interim vacancy. Philipp Seitenglanz wrote his master's thesis at Fraunhofer IGCV in Augsburg and completed his master degree in composite materials in 2023. In collaboration with the project… [read more]

In addition to teaching, the task of a chair is to drive technology forward and transfer it to industrial applications. When all three of these tasks come together, it's simply great. Since 2015, we have been working on the topic of 3D printing in research projects with a focus… [read more]