Year: 2023

Prof. Sandro Wartzack (KTmfk, FAU) visited Prof. Simon Bickerton at the Centre for Advanced Composite Materials and Prof. Jörg Diegel at the Centre Creative Design and Additive Manufacturing at the University of Auckland, NZ. Prof Wartzack was invited as a presenter for a seminar on "Lightweight Des...

The field of application of data-driven product development is diverse and ranges from requirements to the detailed design of the product. The goal here is the consistent analysis of data to support and improve the development process. The virtual testing of products through finite element simulatio...

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sandro Wartzack (KTmfk, FAU) is delighted to have been awarded the Erskine Visiting Fellowship from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. Within the framework of this fellowship, Prof. Wartzack will teach students in the transition from Bachelor's to Master's studie...

The established paradigm of virtual product development transforms to digital engineering. However, optimizing processes by integrating data-driven methods poses challenges for small and medium-sized companies, as approaches for targeted process analysis and method identification are missing. In the...

Diamond-like carbon (DLC) coatings deposited on the surfaces of joint replacements have the potential to enhance the biotribological behavior and longevity. In our new published article, we employ an UHMWPE (PE) ball-on-three CoCr or Ti alloy pin configuration lubricated by simulated body fluid to c...

The transformation of virtual product development to digital engineering requires a successful integration of data-driven methods into existing product development processes. The lack of knowledge about these methods, their performance and limitations are major burdens in their application, especial...

As part of this year's design project course (KoPra), the challenge for the students was to develop an autonomously driving vehicle for picking, transporting and placing a "KTmfk egg", which is controlled using a microcontroller. For this, the students' vehicles had to cope with the autonomous deliv...

According to the citation database Scopus, Prof. Sandro Wartzack, as author and co-author of 472 peer-reviewed publications, achieves an h-index of 30 with a total of 3,678 citations. "I am pleased that we reach so many readers with our publications, who then cite us in their scientific articles. Th...

Since 2019, the Chair of Engineering Design has been part of the Transregional Collaborative Research Center 285 "Method development for mechanical joinability in versatile process chains" with a subproject on the topic of "Methodical Design of versatile Joints". In the 1st funding period, methods f...

The design of modern mobility concepts has to account for developments such as the finite nature of fossil fuels, global warming, and the increasing population density in urban centers. In urban environments in particular, so-called micromobility solutions offer a way of covering short distances (e....