Welcome to the department of Materials Engineering at BAM. We make, characterize, and validate the structural materials of tomorrow.
The department of Materials Engineering carries out research and development targeting relationships between processing, structure, properties, and performance of structural materials. Central to these activities is material reliability and safety, which puts high demands on processing, structural design, and lifetime predictions. The department provides a research-intensive environment that promotes collaboration, hypothesis-driven science, and technical innovation. The goal is to ensure high-quality materials research along the full scientific value chain from fundamentals to applications. This environment is the foundation for ensuring safe technical solutions, thereby serving our societal advancement.
To our current core topics belong failure analysis, high-temperature corrosive degradation, thermo-mechanical fatigue and creep behavior, polymer-matrix composites, additive manufacturing of ceramics, ceramic multilayer systems and sensors, and automated glass synthesis and development.
Together with the departments Analytical Chemistry; Reference Materials, Materials and the Environment, and Materials Chemistry, we lead the electron microscopy center at BAM.
We are looing forward to collaborating with you.
Recent Publications:
„Metallic glasses: Elastically stiff yet flowing at any stress”, inMaterials Today, 2025
„Management of Reference Data in Materials Science and Engineering Exemplified for Creep Data of a Single-Crystalline Ni-Based Superalloy”, in: Acta Materialia, 2025
Publications of the materials engineering department
Divisions
Division 5.1 Microstructural design and degradation Division 5.2 Metallic High-Temperature Materials Division 5.3 Polymer Matrix Composites Division 5.4 Advanced Multi-materials Processing Division 5.5 Materials Modelling Division 5.6 Glasses