Introduction.- Hybrid construction methods and technologies.- Technologies for semi-finished products and preforms.- Metal-intensive hybrid technologies.- Textile and polymer based technologies.- Micro and nano system integration.– Surface and interface technologies.- Modeling, integrative simulation and optimization.- Internationalization.- Summary and abstract.
This book presents key research findings on the combination of different technologies that promise to be particularly sustainable and broadly impactful in their application. The findings were compiled during the course of the first funding period for the MERGE Cluster of Excellence. New methods, potential solutions, and exemplary pilot applications take center stage as the text explores the next generation of functional integration via lightweight structures. The underlying manufacturing processes are based on textile, polymer, and metal processing techniques, all of which are suitable for large batch production, flexibility, and reproducibility.
Prof. Lothar Kroll directs the Institute of Lightweight Structures and the Affiliated Institute CETEX at Chemnitz University of Technology and holds two further honorary professorships at other institutions. As part of his professorship of Lightweight Structures and Polymer Technology at TU Chemnitz and work as Head of the STEX Research Center at the Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology, his efforts focus on research and development in the area of textile-reinforced plastics and hybrid structures, as well as their manufacture and further processing.
