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Faculty Engineering Sciences

Chair in Materials Engineering

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Hahn
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Hahn
FakultƤt Ingenieurwissenschaften
Visitor address
Technikumplatz 17a
09648 Mittweida
5-227B
Postal address
Mittweida University
FakultƤt Ingenieurwissenschaften
Technikumplatz 17
09648 Mittweida

Teaching

  • Atomic Structure
  • Chemical bonds
  • States of order with crystal structure and characteristics
  • Lattice defects
  • Phase transitions
  • Nucleation and growth
  • Basic types of phase systems, including
  • Solid-state transformations
  • Iron-carbon diagram
  • ZTU/ZTA diagram for steels
  • Strengthening mechanisms in metallic materials
  • Crystal recovery and recrystallisation
  • Tensile tests
  • Hardness testing
  • KBV
  • Fatigue strength (single-stage Wƶhler test)

  • States of matter with a crystalline structure and characteristics
  • Lattice defects
  • Phase transitions
  • Nucleation and growth
  • Phase diagrams
  • Strengthening and weakening mechanisms
  • Tensile tests and hardness testing
  • Steels, steel designations and heat treatment of steels
  • Aluminium and aluminium alloys
  • Plastics
  • Conductive and resistive materials
  • Dielectrics for capacitors
  • Piezoelectric materials
  • Contact materials for switchable contacts and
  • soldered joints

Material behaviour during forming

  • Experimental determination of yield curves
  • Yield curve models
  • Influence of temperature, degree of forming, forming speed and material condition on flow behaviour Modern sheet metal materials
  • Steel, aluminium, magnesium
  • Manufacture; relationships between structure, microstructure and properties; testing of
    sheet metal materials; processing and service properties;

Materials for bulk forming

  • Structural, tool and heat-treated steels 
  • AFP steels 
  • Bainitic steels
  • Aluminium, magnesium and titanium alloys
  • Tool materials
  • Cold-work, hot-work and high-speed steel
  • Sintered steel, cermets, ceramics (particle-reinforced composites)
  • Powder production, powder mixtures, manufacture of moulded parts; fundamentals of sintering; properties and applications Composite materials/layered systems
  • Manufacture; properties; applications

Materials testing:

  • Principles and applications of X-RD
    Electron microscopy (TEM, SEM)
    , EDX, SIMS, AFM
    , computed tomography
     

Engineering materials:

  • Steel production
  • Classification and designation of steels
  • Heat treatment of ferrous materials, including
  • Surface hardening processes
  • Structural steels and fine-grained structural steels
  • Quenched and tempered, case-hardened and nitrided steels
  • Corrosion
  • Stainless and acid-resistant steels
  • Tool steels
  • Cast iron materials
  • Aluminium and aluminium alloys, including
  • Heat treatment
  • Titanium, copper and magnesium alloys
  • Plastics, including thermal and mechanical behaviour
  • Ceramics as tooling and structural materials
  • Overview of composite materials

 

 

Fundamentals of corrosion and wear protection: the corrosion system, the tribological system, and protective measures involving surface coating and surface treatment. Teaching of relevant test methods to enable a qualitative assessment of the respective corrosion protection or wear protection.

Career

2006 to the present

Chair of Materials Engineering; Mittweida University of Applied Sciences (FH)

1995–2006

Research Assistant, Chemnitz University of Technology, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Materials Science and Engineering

Vocational training and a career as a cabinetmaker

2006

Appointment

Mittweida University of Applied Sciences (FH); Chair of Materials Engineering

2003

PhD

PhD (Dr.-Ing.) from Chemnitz University of Technology, thesis on ā€˜Investigation of cyclically plastic material behaviour under forming conditions’

1995

Conclusion

Degree from Chemnitz University of Technology, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Dipl.-Ing. in Materials Engineering

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Projects and Publications

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F. Backofen, U. HƤhnel, F. Hahn, K. Hockauf

Comparative Analysis of Various Supervised Machine Learning Models for the Prediction of the Outcome of the Welded Bead Bending Test

Appeared in: Metals 16 (2026), No. 4, P. 418
21683 journalartikel Modellierung und Simulation
F. Backofen, U. HƤhnel, F. Hahn, M. Hockauf, P. Kaiser, K. Hockauf

Prediction of the Outcome of a Welded Bead Bending Test (WBBT) using Machine Learning (ML)

Presented on: 43. Vortrags- und Diskussionstagung Werkstoffprüfung 2025, 2025
21417 konferenzpaper Modellierung und Simulation
N. Omar, F. Kƶster, F. Hahn, A. Bund

Residual stress of annealed electroless and electrodeposited nickel phosphorous layers incorporated with amorphous boron particles

Appeared in: Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Engineering, 2025
21270 journalartikel
A. Bund, F. Hahn, F. Kƶster, N. Omar

Hardness and tribological behaviour of annealed electroless nickel phosphorus composite layers with incorporated boron particles

Appeared in: Surface and Coatings Technology, 2023
20834 journalartikel
F. Hahn

Werkstofftechnik-Praktikum

ISBN: 978-3-446-47048-4
14283 monographie

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