SFB 605:  Elementary Friction Process

• Subject Area: Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
• Term: from 1998 to 2002
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 5482670

The collaborative research centre 605 "Elementary Firction Processes" performs basic research with two technical friction systems: the "disc brake" and the "rail/wheel contact". These systems also determine the selection of the materials which are studied experimentally. The friction contact in brakes and between wheel and rail provides a broad research area. Even though both systems are widely used in the real world the constitutional phenomena are mostly unexplained. The collaborative research centre 605 made it its business to bridge between the fricional properties and the processes occurring at thecontact areas. The goal is to find elementary processes on different scales which are responsible for the phenomena observed at the contact zones.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• International Connection: Switzerland

Completed projects

• A1 - Reibphänomene an heterogenen Polymerwerkstoffen (Project Heads Hinrichsen, Georg ;  Schulz, Eckhard ;  Sturm, Heinz )
• A3 - Klärung der Gesetzmäßigkeiten in technischen Reibpaarungen Offenlegung - Erklärung - Simulation (Project Head Severin, Dietrich )
• A4 - Der Reibungsmechanismus bei Antriebs- und Bremsvorgängen am Beispiel des Rad/Schiene-Kontaktes (Project Heads Knothe, Klaus ;  Mertens, Heinz )
• B1 - Beanspruchungsabhängige Veränderungen der Reibflächentopographie (Project Head Albertz, Jörg )
• B2 - Detektion reibbedingter Materialveränderungen (Project Head Österle, Werner )
• B3 - Reibprozeßinduzierte Eigenspannungen (Project Heads Kaysser-Pyzalla, Anke Rita ;  Reimers, Walter )
• B4 - Mikroskopische Charakterisierung von Reibprozessen und Analyse elementarer Modellreibkontakte (Project Head Santner, Erich )
• B7 - Multidimensionale Analyse von Reiboberflächen (Project Head Severin, Dietrich )
• C1 - Molekulardynamik von Reibkontakten (Project Heads Hess, Siegfried ;  Kröger, Martin )
• C2 - Der Reibungsmechanismus bei Antriebs- und Bremsvorgängen am Beispiel des Rad-Schiene-Kontaktes (Project Head Knothe, Klaus )
• C4 - Dissipationsprozesse in technischen Reibpaarungen (Project Head Ostermeyer, Georg-Peter )
• Z - Zentrale Aufgaben für den SFB (Project Head Hess, Siegfried )

• Applicant Institution: Technische Universität Berlin
• Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Siegfried Hess