Kompetenzzentrum Leichtbau der Hochschule Landshut (LLK)

Resource efficiency through lightweight construction

The Lightweight Design Competence Center at Landshut University of Applied Sciences (LLK) is a research institute where research is conducted in the fields of materials analysis and characterization, design and structural mechanics, and manufacturing technologies.

The LLK is divided into the areas of lightweight materials, lightweight design and mechanics, and materials analysis and offers a powerful infrastructure for practice-oriented cooperation projects. Our performance potentials range from the product idea to the production  of prototypes and their testing. Currently, a joint research and development center "Synthesis, characterization and  technological manufacturing approaches for lightweight construction - nano-to-macro" is being set up in cooperation with the University of Salzburg as part of an Interreg project. Focus modules: Hybrid structures by means of T-RTM processes  combined with knowledge-based development of nano-to-macro hybridi sation concepts,characterization and optimization of laser-based joined light metal structures (Mg, TiAl) and electrochemical, material analytical  and material mechanical investigation of notched and formed wrought magnesium alloys.

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• Material modeling

• Determination of material parameters including temperature  and moisture influence
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• Static and dynamic component and structural analysis
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• FEM simulation, failure analysis
• Manufacturing, composite materials analysis
• Microscopy (high resolution SEM)
• Computed tomography (nCT)

• Material characterization

• Experimental and numerical fatigue analysis, fracture mechanics
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• Damage mechanics

• Development and fabrication of cellular composites as well as hybrid structures
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• Lightweight design and lightweight system construction
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Innovations

• Sandwich structures of cellular composites with integrated fiber-reinforced face sheets
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• Static and cyclic shearing of composites and high temperature materials (TiAl)
• Hybrid hollow sections with local cellular stress cores
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• Operational strength analysis for wrought magnesium alloys
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