Year: 2024

Digital transformation is pervasive in our daily lives, evident in new technologies like smart devices or AI chatbots. This digitalization extends to product development to enhance product quality and reduce development time and costs. However, design data is diverse and phase-dependent. This paper ...

Our former PhD student Tim Weikert was honored on 25.07.24 with the Innovation Award of the Schaeffler FAG Foundation for his doctoral thesis entitled "Modifications of amorphous carbon coatings to adapt friction conditions and increase wear protection", which he wrote at the KTmfk - Chair of Design...

The 29th Congress of the European Society for Biomechanics took place in Edinburgh from July 1 to 3. Our institute participatd with 3 employees and senior engineer Dr.-Ing. Jörg Miehling from the User-Centered Product design group. They presented the current research results of the KTmfk in three po...

Research starts at university: FAU student Stefan Gäcklein is already investigating the behaviour of fibre-reinforced plastics under high strain rates in high-speed tensile tests at the KTmfk as part of his project work. The resulting material parameters are an essential basis for precise simulation...

The Chair of Engineering Design congratulates Mr Benedict Rothammer on successfully passing his doctoral examination with distinction to become a Dr.-Ing. on 27.06.2024. Mr Rothammer presented the contents of his dissertation entitled “amorphous carbon coatings for extending the service life of tota...

Kevin Neusser joined the research group for machine elements and tribology as a research assistant at the beginning of July. Previously, he studied medical engineering, specializing in production engineering and prosthetics at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. As a student resea...

The 18th CIRP Conference on Computer Aided Tolerancing took place from June 26-28th, 2024 at the University of Huddersfield, UK. Experts and scientists from the field of tolerancing came together to present the latest developments and their current research results. The event provided an excellent p...

Musculoskeletal simulations can be used to estimate biomechanical variables based on non-invasive experimental motion measurement data. Due to measurement errors, model assumptions or the used computation method, there is a gap between reality (experimental measurements) and the simulations, the sim...

Jonathan-Markus Einwag joined the Digital Engineering research group as a research assistant at the beginning of April. He previously studied mechanical engineering at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. He also wrote his master's thesis on the development of a process simulation chai...

On 18 June 2024, Prof. Sandro Wartzack was a guest as a representative of the universities in the live talk of the Blueprint episode "AI in Digital Engineering - Ready for the Revolution?" The advantages and challenges of using AI in digital engineering were discussed: accelerated development cycles...