Fatigue
Head of the Group
Group Members
M.Eng. Jan Lars Riedel (joint member with Physical Metallurgy)
M.Sc. Elias Gall
Competence
Some examples of the work of the section Fatigue:
Uniaxial Loading:
- Fatigue behaviour of recyclable high-strength sintering steels
- Structural-mechanical investigations of the influence of the surface layer on the crack initiation and propagation of case-hardened steels
- Deformation and failure behaviour of cast nickel alloys under high medium load
Multiaxial Loading:
- Experimental analysis of the cyclic deformation and damage behaviour of railroad steels under near-service load
- Failure behaviour of notched steel specimen under cyclic loading
- Influence of the frequency and the wave form on the failure behaviour of different steels
Thermal-mechanical Fatigue:
- Isothermal and thermal-mechanical fatigue behaviour of ceramic reinforced cast aluminium alloys
- Thermal and mechanical fatigue of high-temperature aluminium alloys
- Deformation and failure behaviour of combustion chamber alloys under isothermal and thermal-mechanical cyclic loading
- Microstructure, deformation and failure behaviour of metallic materials by superposition of low-frequency thermal–mechanical and high-frequency mechanical loading
- Deformation and failure behaviour of ceramic materials under isothermal and thermal mechanical fatigue loading
- Fatigue behaviour of high-temperature materials under high static basic loading
- Superposition of high and low cycle fatigue loadings
- Fatigue behaviour of a single crystal nickel base superalloy used for aircraft engines
Some examples of the work of the fatigue group
- Thermomechanical treatment of high strength steels in the temperature range of dynamic strain ageing in order to increase the fatigue limit in the very high cycle range (Nf ≈ 109)
- Understanding the influence of surface coatings on the high temperature fatigue behaviour of TiAl-Alloys
- Investigation of the thermomechanical fatigue behaviour of Al- and Ni-base alloys
- Development of methodologies to determine the brittle-ductile transition temperature of intermetallic alloys
- Comparing the fatigue behaviour of additively and conventionally manufactured specimens
