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The toolhead for Advanced Tape Layer Additive Manufacturing (ATLAM) was recently installed at the Chair of Carbon Composites at their site on the Ludwig-Bölkow-Campus in Taufkirchen. The technology, which is combining tape laying with additive manufacturing, was developed by CEAD… [read more]

As finalists for the German SAMPE Innovation Award 2022, our employees Margarita Etchegaray Bello and Sylvester Vogl had the chance to present their student research projects at the SAMPE Europe 2022 conference in Hamburg during the poster session. Every year, SAMPE Germany… [read more]

The project „SUOMI - Automated Manufacturing of sustainable Sports products by combining bio-based Composite Materials and Digital Quality Inspection has started at the Chair of Carbon Composites. The research project consisting of the partners Walter Seikowsky GmbH, The Bakery… [read more]

Our colleague Dennis Bublitz has just finished his three-month research stay at the University of British Columbia UBC in Vancouver. He worked together with Yasmine Abdin and Sergey Kravchenko at the Department of Materials Science on process simulations for the compaction of… [read more]

The project “Hydrogen Demonstrator and Development Environment – HyDDEn” has been launched at the Chair of Carbon Composites. This project is dedicated to the development of a hydrogen hybrid power supply for the AREA research drone. The task of the LCC is to design, design,… [read more]

On July 26 we successfully carried out two fuselage crash tests in front of a huge audience at Flugwerft Schleißheim. The tests will round off our BMWK LuFo project CraCpit with Akaflieg München. The attached picture sequence shows the novel CraCpit fuselage with a H III dummy… [read more]

On July 26 (alternative dates July 27/28), two crash tests on glider fuselages will take place at Flugwerft Schleißheim as a conclusion of the BMWK LuFo projects CraCpit and NaSiCo. The crash tests are open to the public, but there will be an entrance fee. Details can be found in… [read more]

In the STORT project of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), a sounding research rocket was launched equipped with a CFRP module with structural integrated fiber Bragg grating sensors, that was manufactured by Vincent Backmann supported by Jan Teltschik at the Chair of Carbon… [read more]

This week six employees of the Chair of Carbon Composites are attending the European Conference on Composites (ECCM20) in Lausanne. Talks will range from Structural Simulation, Process Monitoring, Manufacturing Technologies to Material Characterization. Feel free to contact us if… [read more]

Our colleague Christian Pohl returned from his three-month research stay at the University of Oxford at the end of May. There, in the research group of Prof. Nik Petrinic at the Department of Engineering Science, he conducted drop tower tests to investigate the crushing behavior… [read more]