Joining Technology

Contact person: Dr.-Ing. Kai Treutler, Dr.-Ing. Hennig Wiche

• Material-physical and metallurgical processes during joining
• Production of material composites (metal/ceramic, cast iron/steel, light metal/steel, light metal/light alloy)
• Press and laser beam welding of light metals (Al, Mg alloys) Filler metals and welding technologies for duplex steel and cast materials
• Joining technology for microelectronics

• Arc welding processes (MIG/MAG, TIG/Plasma, UP, Orbital welding)
• Vacuum diffusion welding machine
• Hot isostatic press
• Thick wire, thin wire bonder, semiconductor diode laser, cold press butt welding unit
• Laser Vibrometer
• Wetting balance, short time annealing device
• welding simulation systems, melting and heat treatment furnaces
• Optical and contact dilatometry
• Destructive and non-destructive testing methods (instrumented notched bar impact test, tensile test with laser-optical strain measurement, resonance test, high-speed tearing machine, ultrasonic hardness tester, pull tester, shear tester, gloss angle meter, ultrasonic testing)
• Hydrogen and oxygen analysis equipment
• metallographic examination methods (REM with EDX, TEM, light microscope with differential interference contrast)
• Software: Expert system "Welding of cast iron with nodular graphite" Quality database "Welding of cast iron materials" WEZ calculator Welding simulation and dilatometry program "Temper

• Process and material investigations in joining technology
• Optimization of process and production sequences as well as quality management for production plants
• Development of business area approaches in the basic and capital goods industry
• Consulting and expert activities