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, curiosity-driven research, 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.

Electron Microscopy Center

We are looing forward to collaborating with you.

Recent Publications:

„Influence of cooling rate on the microstructure and room temperature mechanical properties in the refractory AlMo0.5NbTa0.5TiZr superalloy“, in: Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2023

“Shear-band cavitation determines the shape of the stress-strain curve of metallic glasses”, in: Physical Review Materials, 2023

“Classification of fracture characteristics and fracture mechanisms using deep learning and topography data”, in: Practical Metallography, 2023

Divisions

Division 5.1 Ma­te­ria­lo­gra­phy, Frac­to­gra­phy and Ageing of En­gi­nee­red Materials 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

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