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18.02.2025 Activities of the professorship
For the third time, InnoMat IWW e.V. is supporting young scientists and engineers at Chemnitz University of Technology with the Deutschlandstipendium scholarship. The scholarship benefits outstanding students on degree programmes in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Chemnitz University of Technology.

03.02.2025 Teaching at the professorship
Students were given a comprehensive tour of the BMW plant in Leipzig as part of the "Corrosion and Wear" course

22.01.2025 Equipment of the professorship
On 11 December 2024, the newly procured 4-point rotating bending test system Power ROTABEND (100 Nm) from SincoTec Test Systems GmbH was put into operation at the WOT. This expansion of the machine park allows the testing of cyclic load capacity under rotating bending, as is relevant for the use of rotating shafts, for example.

20.12.2024 Personnel of the professorship
On 05.12.24, Mr Bernd Schilder, M.Sc., defended his dissertation topic "Development of a low-oxygen coating process for the production of thermally sprayed, heavy-duty cylinder liners" in front of a large, interested audience as an external doctoral candidate of Prof. Lampke. He was awarded the grade "very good" for his overall performance.

20.12.2024 Projects of the professorship
In November 2024, the German Research Foundation (DFG) approved the establishment of the Collaborative Research Centre/Transregio (SFB/TRR 402) entitled "Intelligent production technologies for lightweight plastic structures with load-dedicated 3D grading of the reinforcement architecture - DediGrad". The Chemnitz University of Technology is the spokesperson under the leadership of Prof Dr Lothar Kroll. The research team is made up of 27 researchers from TU Chemnitz, TU Dresden, RWTH Aachen University, TU Vienna and Fraunhofer IWU, who will be researching this highly relevant topic for 45 months in the first project phase with a total funding amount of 16.4 million euros.