Adaptive production of components with locally definable adjustment of the fibre architecture (B01)

• Subject Area: Plastics Engineering ; Lightweight Construction, Textile Technology
• Term: since 2025
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 525069572

The objective is to research graded injection moulded components at an early stage of product development and to research a highly adaptive production process for injection moulded analogue components with continuously configurable fibre architecture. Additive manufacturing is used to generate local changes to the fibre architecture during layer build-up. On the one hand, by investigating a manufacturing process for intrinsically graded additively manufactured components and, on the other hand, via individual 3D continuous fibre reinforcement structures that are applied to printed components and analysed.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 402: Intelligent production technologies for lightweight plastic structures with load-dedicated 3D grading of the reinforcement architecture
• Major Instrumentation: Continuous fibre application ; Extruder additive Manufacturing cell ; Variothermal immersion edged moulds
• Applicant Institution: Technische Universität Chemnitz
• Project Head: Professor Dr.-Ing. Christian Hopmann