Christoph Bleicher, Division Director Structural Durability at Fraunhofer LBF, welcomed the participants of UC 16 - Users Conference on Biaxial Fatigue Testing, the 16th user conference for biaxial fatigue testing of wheels, wheel hubs and wheel bearings.
Taking the road to the lab
Users deliberate upon biaxial fatigue strength tests for passenger car and truck wheels and hubs
Scheme of the experimental setup with twin screw extruder and online rheometer.
Accelerating Your Development Process!
Online rheology appears to be a very promising tool to implement stabilizing during the production of recyclates with the ability of real-time adjustment to the aging stage of the mill charges.
For increasing the proportion of post-consumer recyclates (PCR) for high-quality industrial applications of engineering plastics, additional partners wanted to develop fundamental insights into the effect of material composition.
Fraunhofer LBF in Darmstadt has stood for the safety and reliability of lightweight structures for 80 years. Today, with its expertise in the areas of structural durability, system reliability, vibration technology and polymer technology, the Institute provides solutions for most important cross-cutting issues of the future: lightweight design, functional integration and cyberphysical mechanical engineering systems. The focus here is on solutions to social challenges such as resource efficiency and emission reduction as well as future mobility, like e-mobility and autonomous, networked driving. Comprehensive skills ranging from data acquisition in real operational field use to data analysis and data interpretation, in addition to deriving specific measures to design and improve material, component and system properties form the basis for this. Customers come from automotive and commercial vehicle construction, railway transport engineering, shipbuilding, aviation, machine and plant construction, power engineering, electrical engineering, medical engineering and the chemical industry. They benefit from the proven expertise of over 400 employees and cutting-edge technology accommodated in more than 11,560 square meters of laboratory and experimental space.