Atomistic Modelling, or the Art of Understanding How Atoms Work
What makes a diamond hard? Why does copper conduct electricity but ceramic doesn’t? How can steel be both hard and yet formable? The answer to all these questions lies in the building blocks of...
Does Residual Stress Has a Sell-By Date?
Mechanical surface hardening processes are firmly established in many sectors of engineering. For example, crankshafts for car engines are "deep rolled" in one of the final production processes in...
High- Performance Pressure Casting For Low-Weight Car Components
Accelerating a car to 100 km/h in just a few seconds and achieving a top speed of over 300 km/h requires not only a high-performance engine but also substantial reductions in vehicle weight.
More Power in Lighting Technology
Light-emitting diodes, so-called "LEDs", are the lighting technology of the present – and the future. LEDs can now be found as part of virtually every lighting concept: whether in medical...
Enhancing the Reliability of Miniaturised Microelectronic Components
Technical devices are getting smaller while requirements in terms of reliability and function are increasing. This is presenting developers with more and more new challenges. Microelectronic devices...
Lightweight And Safe Through Damage Tolerant Design
"Fitness for purpose" of structural parts and components
What may sound like a health programme in fact denotes the technical usability of components, which represents a key area of research at the...
Chains For Low Temperatures and Hot Conditions
Tyre protection chains are designed to protect the face and side walls of the tyre from hostile elements such as high temperatures when driving through hot steel slag or from huge solid rocks and...
