VDMA Awards and Techtextil Innovation Award for ITM Researchers

On May 4th 2015, the Walter Reiners Stiftung (foundation) of the Association of German Textile Engineering conferred its Advancement and Creativity Awards 2015 to young engineers, including prize money of 10,000 euros.

All in all, three awards were advertised nationally, all of which were awarded to research of the Institute of Textile Machinery and High Performance Material Technology (ITM) of TU Dresden this year.

Wolfgang Trümper received the advancement award of the German Textile Engineering Association 2015 for his dissertation titled "Development of a Unique Technology for Direct 2D and 3D Preforming of Multilayered Knitted Fabrics".

Jan Fleischmann received the advancement award of the German Textile Engineering Association 2015 for his diploma thesis titled "Development of a new, EASA-compliant Reserve Parachute Concept".

Moritz Eger received the creativity award for his student research paper on the "Development of a Textile-reinforced Osteosynthesis Implant for the Treatment of Bone Fractures".

Peter D. Dornier (Chairman of the Walter Reiners-Stiftung), Jan Fleischmann, Wolfgang Trümper, Moritz Eger
(left to right; © VDMA)

At the TECHTEXTIL convention on May 4th 2015, Monireh Fazeli and Matthias Hübner were granted the TECHTEXTIL INNOVATION AWARD 2015 in the "New Composites" category for their woven nodal semi-finished products with complex geometries in integrated constructions for lightweight applications in vehicle and mechanical engineering, developed at the ITM of TU Dresden.

Professor Chokri Cherif, Director of the Institute, and Dr. Gerald Hoffmann, Head of the "Fabric Formation" research group at the ITM accepted the award in place of the laureates during the official opening of the TECHTEXTIL and TEXPROCESS trade fairs.

Researchers at ITM successfully developed a simulation-assisted flexible technology based on ribbon weaving, to realize woven nodal element semi-finished products in T-, X-, and LI-shapes. These can be used as frameworks and load introduction elements in fiber-reinforced plastic composites. One special point of interest is the development of the required complex weave patterns ensuring suitable thread orientations in the finished three-dimensional component with due regard to the structural deformations occurring in remolding. The attention was focused on the production of hollow structures with diversely designed branchings, with material reserves required for remolding contained within the structure. The fabrics were developed on a modern shuttle ribbon loom by Mageba Textilmaschinen GmbH & Co. KG

 Prof. Chokri Cherif, Dr. Gerald Hoffmann, Dr. Jan Laperre (Head of the Jury, Centexbel/BE)
(left to right; © Messe Frankfurt Exhibition GmbH/Thomas Fedra)