Railway Research

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  • Construction and calculation of railway components
  • Brake technology, brake discs and pads, driving simulation
  • Crash safety of rail vehicles
  • Assistance with claims and product optimization

  • Neurobrake - Safely calculate braking distances of rail vehicles with the help of artificial neural networks and Fuzzy Logic, 2015-2017, funding by the Bavarian Ministry of Science.
  • Penalty process for the frictional evaluation of modern brake pads (cooperation with Knorr-Bremse systems for rail vehicles)
  • Predictable and Optimised Braking, RSSB, UK
  • Additive manufacturing of metallic components in railway technology
  • MovingIDEAS Challenge of the DB - Package of measures Modern diesel engine (research project together with Prof. Andreas Rau, FK03

  • Manufacturing technology Rail vehicles
  • Advanced Materials and Arc Processes Research and Development Center
  • Industrial cooperation
  • Support for claims and welding process optimization

  • Discontinuous energy input during MSG welding of components from the curable aluminium alloy AW 6082 for rail vehicle construction, objectives of the work
    • Effects of discontinuous energy input on microstructure
    • Quantitative prediction of the correlations of Rm, Rp0,2 and elongation at break, based on measurements of HV1
    • Development of a FEM model for the calculation of transient deformation

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Prof. Dr. Matthias Niessner Room: A 311

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