Chair in Smart Materials

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The Smart Materials Chair covers the materials engineering and materials testing of functional and structural materials within the engineering degree programmes (materials for electrical engineering, sensor materials, special materials / materials testing, testing methods for coatings and surfaces, Fracture mechanics / component behaviour and damage analysis / material selection). Research focuses on fracture mechanics problems (cyclic crack growth, crack resistance under quasi-static loading) and process-microstructure-property relationships, as well as the application of machine learning models to identify relevant causal relationships. We are open to research collaborations with partners from Saxony, Germany and abroad, from both industry and academia. Do you have any questions about our teaching and research programmes? Please feel free to contact us! 

Holder of the Chair

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kristin Hockauf
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kristin Hockauf
FakultƤt Ingenieurwissenschaften
+49 3727 581008
hockauf@hs-mittweida.de
5-240B

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Our team

M.Eng. Frank Poschmann
FakultƤt Ingenieurwissenschaften
+49 3727 581412
poschman@hs-mittweida.de
5-228B
M.Eng. Fritz Backofen
M.Eng. Fritz Backofen
FakultƤt Ingenieurwissenschaften
+49 3727 581458
backofen@hs-mittweida.de
5-233B
Dr.-Ing. Ulrike HƤhnel
Dr.-Ing. Ulrike HƤhnel
FakultƤt Ingenieurwissenschaften
+49 3727 581536
haehnel@hs-mittweida.de
5-234B
Dipl.-Ing. Andreas Eysert
FakultƤt Ingenieurwissenschaften
+49 3727 581551
aeysert@hs-mittweida.de
5-236B
Dipl.-Ing. Tom KreiƟig
Dipl.-Ing. Tom KreiƟig
FakultƤt Ingenieurwissenschaften
+49 3727 581460
kreissig@hs-mittweida.de
5-237B
Enrico Gehrke
FakultƤt Ingenieurwissenschaften
+49 3727 581405
egehrke@hs-mittweida.de
5-238B

Laboratory equipment

Computed tomography

Room 5-238 B | Room 7-018

  • Porosity/Inclusion Analysis
  • Wall thickness analysis
  • Fibre-reinforced composite analysis

Emission spectrometry | Differential thermal analysis

Room 5-239 B

  • Chemical Analysis of Engineering Materials
  • Access to materials databases

Corrosion testing

Room 5-103 A

  • Conducting neutral salt spray tests and condensation tests

Metallography

Room 5-235 B | Room 5-236 B | Room 5-237 B

  • Metallographic sample preparation
  • Assessment of thin sections and thin films (ceramics and plastics)
  • Microstructural analysis (examination of material structure under a light microscope)
  • Hardness measurement of microstructural components (phases)
  • Laser scanning microscopy

Scanning electron microscopy

Room 5-238 B

  • Fracture surface analysis
  • Identification of failure mechanism or cause of failure:
     
    • static or dynamic overload
    • corrosive attack, etc.
  • Elemental analysis (EDX) of unknown residues on components
  • Mapping and line scan for colour-coded element distribution

X-ray fine structure

Room 5-234 B

  • Qualitative and semi-quantitative phase analysis
  • Texture and stress measurements

Materials used in electrical engineering

Room 5-233 B | Room 5-111 A

  • Characterisation of dielectric materials
  • Characterisation of piezoceramic materials (small-signal and large-signal behaviour)
  • Magnetic behaviour of materials
  • Non-destructive film thickness testing using probe technology (eddy current, magnetic inductive)
  • Conductivity behaviour of materials

Key areas of research

Current projects

Predicting the results of the weld-on bending test using machine learning (ML)
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