Technical Center Preforming
The Preforming pilot plant gives the institute a number of possibilities to process textile high-performance materials into a preform for the production of fiber-plastic composites. The following machinery has been integrated into the Preform Center:
- Forming station with hemispherical geometry (punch and bottom tool) and individually producible segmented hold-down clamps,
- Forming station with boomerang geometry (punch and bottom tool), individually producible segmented hold-down clamps, and infrared preheating station,
- Forming station with complex automobile geometry (top and bottom tool).
The individually controllable, segmented hold-down clamps and the possibility of integrating intermediate panels are the special features of the forming stations. The intermediate panels are given a clamping. Thus, the textile layers are locally clamped. All these measures taken for an active process design contribute to creaseless and load-adapted preforms. Extensive, robot-assisted measuring in deeper layers by means of eddy current technology is used to analyze the process results. Intensive research in all abovementioned areas is conducted at the ITM.
Contact persons:
© Mirko Krziwon
Mr Dr. Thomas Gereke
Research Group Leader Structure & Process Simulation
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Visitor Address:
George-Bähr-Straße 3c, Zeuner-Bau, Room 132
01069 Dresden
Deutschland