Thermally sprayed coatings and tribological surfaces are a point of interest in many industrial sectors. They are used for better wear resistance of lightweight materials or for oil retention on surfaces. Lightweight ...

Magnesium sheet alloys have a great potential as a construction material in the aerospace and automotive industry. However, the current state of research regarding temperature dependent material parameters for the description ...

In recent years, the automobile industry has been calling for new lightweight solutions to fulfill increasing ecologically requirements. A weight reduction of automobile body constructions is necessary to reduce fuel ...

Aluminum alloys of the 7000 series possess high lightweight potential due to their high specific tensile strength combined with a good ultimate elongation. For this reason, hot-formed boron-manganese-steel parts can be ...

Due to the rising number of car variants, the production systems in automobile industry are driven by a strong demand for flexible production processes. In the production of thin-walled workpieces, forming and cutting ...

The validation results of a concept for the development of availability-oriented business models are addressed. The developed concept contains five steps by means of primarily design thinking methods. For the validation, ...