Metallic materials and material fatigue

Welcome to the Department of Metallic Materials and Material Fatigue.

The focus of our department is research into the interactions between the Manufacturing and processing process the Microstructure and the resulting Properties of a material (mechanical, corrosive, tribological). Understanding these interactions enables the targeted design of the material for the respective application.

The microstructural and mechanical characterisation of the material and in particular the Material behaviour under cyclic stress supported by Simulation are the basis for this. The range of materials we analyse focuses primarily on Metallic materials, especially steels, aluminium alloys and high and medium entropy alloys . Our expertise also lies in the area of Fatigue of anodic, plasma-electrolytic and thermally sprayed coating systems .

Under the tabs at the top of this screen you will find more detailed information on our research activities, the services we offer and the extensive range of equipment and methods available in our department.

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Below you will find a selection of our latest research topics and projects.

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Modelling of material and surface changes for the FEM simulation of drop forging of carbon steels
Simulation-based property design along the combined primary and forming technology process chain
Crack propagation behaviour of highly plastically deformed medium entropy alloys as a function of the microstructure
Fatigue behaviour of anodically and plasma-electrolytically oxidised high-strength aluminium alloys
Microstructural and mechanical properties of electrochemically and thermally coated additively manufactured components
Qualification of metallic foils for ultra-thin bipolar plates in fuel cell stacks
DFG Research Unit 5380 "Functional surfaces through adiabatic high-speed processes: Microstructure, Mechanisms and Model Development - FUNDAM³ ENT https://www.for-5380.de/
DFG Priority Programme SPP2013: Improvement of the application behaviour of incrementally formed components through targeted residual stress induction https://www.mec.ed.tum.de/utg/spp-2013/

The services offered by the Metallic Materials and Material Fatigue department include analytical and investigative tasks as well as simulation-supported, targeted material development.

You will find the technical equipment available to us for this purpose organised by laboratory area under the corresponding tab on this page.

We offer the following services as standard.

Talk to us if you would like us to support you with special tasks!

Microstructure and solid state analysis

X-ray fine structure analysis using XRD:
- Qualitative and quantitative phase analysis and determination of lattice parameters
- Determination of particle sizes and micro-distortions
- Residual stress measurement
- Texture analysis
- Coating thickness, roughness and density determination using reflectometry
Simultaneous performance of thermogravimetry (TG) and optionally differential thermal analysis (DTA) or differential scanning calorimetry (DSC)
Thermomechanical analysis (TMA) to determine the behaviour of materials under mechanical and thermal stress

Materials testing

Mechanical testing of materials (tension/compression, bending, shear)
Various standardised wear tests in solid contact (Taber Abraser, Rubber Wheel, Miller test, oscillating friction wear test (ball-on-disc, pin-on-disc etc.))

Manufacturing