Christian Doppler Laboratory for Functionally Oriented Materials Design

01.01.1998 - 31.01.2006
Research funding project
The availability of materials with mechanical properties hat are well adapted to their fields of application plays a vital role in developing new products and processes and in improving existing ones. Typical requirements are high stiffness and strength, good resistance against damage and wear, and well-balanced combinations of the above. These material properties, in turn, are determined by the interplay between materials¿ microstructure with the highly complex stress states caused by production and service loads. For developing new materials or improving existing ones a deep understanding of these complex interactions is of major importance. Computer oriented modeling methods based on continuum mechanics have developed into important tools for the theoretical description of such problems. The Christian Doppler Laboratory for Functionally Oriented Materials Design (CDL-FMD) is rooted in this field of research, which is referred to as micromechanics of materials. The research strategy of the CDL-FMD aims at reaching an improved understanding of the thermomechanical behavior of advanced materials under given loads. On this basis material configurations are to be identified, which match given application profiles as closely as possible. Accordingly, the activities of the laboratory encompass the development of concepts and methods for modeling the interactions between the loading conditions, the behavior and the microstructure as well as microtopology of materials, and their application towards improving and developing materials, products and processes. Specific applications are high speed tool steels produced by powder metallurgical routes, the material behavior in the surface regions of the head zone of railroad rails, and phase transitions in continuously cast steels.

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Grant funds

  • Christian Doppler Forschungsgesells (National) Christian Doppler Research Association (CDG)

External partner

  • Montanuniversität Leoben Institut für Mechanik

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