FOR 981:  Hybrid Intelligent Construction Elements

• Subject Area: Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
• Term: from 2009 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 52793350

Constructional components are used in various technical disciplines to perform specific and versatile functional tasks. The current development of these elements concentrates mainly on improving their performance and their specific, technological characteristics, like the improvement of the materials, enlargement of the application and/or characteristics of lightweight construction.
The special research task of the Research Unit relates to hybrid intelligent constructional elements ("HIKE"). Through the alliance of seven university institutes from the departments of civil engineering, aeronautics and space technology, design, production, vehicle and/or process engineering a scientific approach is being pursued in order to systematically develop novel constructional components, which meet functional, economical and innovative demands and clearly stand out from the classical constructional elements. Such, compared to today's components, considerably increased functionalities of individual constructional components, which are designed for their specific scope of application, can only be achieved by innovative methods of design and dimensioning, which combine the system components material, measuring and information technology at a very early point in time of the design process.
The formation of the Research Unit is divided into the areas of fundamental research and applied research (project group A and B) with a close integration and coordination of individual projects.
The combination of the two modules and the evaluation of the basics gained in the sub-projects will be carried out on the example of an adaptive shell structure made as a demonstrator.
In comparison to classical designs smart hybrid constructional components will provide a far greater density of sensor information and actuating elements. Therefore, quite novel approaches will arise to achieve active controllers and adaptive control for the whole system. The material-, information- and production-orientated evaluation of the potentials of such combinations for hybrid constructional components or systems developed thereof will be developed with a two-stage accomplishment of the research project "HIKE". This Research Unit cross-links the existing skills at the University of Stuttgart in the fields of design, production, civil and mechanical engineering with those of aeronautics and space technology, which results in a structural networking and strengthening of these disciplines.

• DFG Programme: Research Units

Projects

• Entwicklung erweiterter sensorischer, anzeigender und aktorischer Funktionalitäten für textile hybride intelligente Konstruktionselemente (Applicant Planck, Heinrich )
• Entwicklung von steifen und biegeschlaffen Zugelementen und Krafteinleitungselementen für Flächenelemente (Applicant Wehking, Karl-Heinz )
• Fakultätsübergreifende interdisziplinäre Projektbetreuung und -präsentation, Projektmanagement (Applicant Binz, Hansgeorg )
• Finanzierungs- und Chancengleichheitsmaßnahmen der FOR 981 (Applicant Binz, Hansgeorg )
• Formalisierte Wissensrepräsentation zur Unterstützung des methodischen Konstruierens von und mit hybriden intelligenten Konstruktionselementen und Systemen (Applicant Binz, Hansgeorg )
• Herstellung hybrider intelligenter Konstruktionselemente durch teilflüssige Formgebung (Applicant Liewald, Mathias )
• Manipulation von Spannungs- und Verformungsfeldern für statische und dynamische Beanspruchungen von Tragstrukturen (Applicant Sobek, Werner )
• Multifunktionale, hybride Sandwichstrukturen für flächige und rohrförmige Konstruktionselemente (Applicant Middendorf, Peter )
• Regelungs- und Steuerungsmethodik für Systeme mit hybriden intelligenten Konstruktionselementen (Applicant Sawodny, Oliver )

• Spokesperson: Professor Dr.-Ing. Hansgeorg Binz