Research Area 2: Processing
Low-energy process chains for enough-to-use parts and products
In today’s production, we strive to achieve the highest performance and the best quality of our products. To do so, we optimize our process chains, starting with finely tailored raw materials and under the assumption of abundant sources of energy. On Mars, parts for system repairs and modifications must be produced with impure raw materials and minimal energy expenditure. We will develop flexible elementary process units able to cope with material impurities and combine them to minimize energy consumption while meeting predefined part requirements.
Disciplines: Manufacturing, material processing, production technology, process engineering, materials engineering, space engineering, polymer chemistry and technology
Processing Theme 1: Applying suitable process impacts in elementary process units
We aim to establish elementary process units that apply (combinations of) thermal, mechanical and chemical process impacts to Mars materials to enhance their properties.
Project leaders: Anastasiya T?njes, Matthias Steinbacher, Kurosch Rezwan, Daniel Meyer, Ilya Okulov, Katharina Koschek, Katharina Brinkert, Andreas Fischer, Kirsten Tracht
Processing Theme 2: Devising low-energy process chains
We aim to identify sequences of processes that lead to enough-to-use parts while minimizing energy consumption in the production of those parts.
Project leaders: Ilya Okulov, Anastasiya T?njes, Daniel Meyer, Kurosch Rezwan, Sven Kerzenmacher, Katharina Koschek, Matthias Steinbacher, Katharina Brinkert, Andreas Hartwig
Processing Theme 3: Predicting part functional performance
We aim to predict the functionality of parts by leveraging digital process representations that take uncertainties into consideration.
Project leaders: Andreas Fischer, Anastasiya T?njes, Matthias Steinbacher, Daniel Meyer, Ilya Okulov, Lutz M?dler
