Research
Interdisciplinary research topics
DFG-Forschungsgruppe FOR 3010 "Refrabund"
Freiberger Hochdruckforschungszentrum (FHZ)
Collaborative Research Center 920: Multi-Functional Filters for Metal Melt Filtration
Virtual High Temperature Conversion (Virtuhcon)
Center for Efficient High Temperature Processes and Material Conversion (ZeHS)
Research focus of the institutes
Institute of Materials Science
- Structure-property correlations of nanomaterials
- Materials thermodynamics (computational thermodynamics); materials chemistry
Institute of Materials Engineering
- Fracture-mechanical evaluation of metallic materials and their welded joints under static, dynamic, cyclic loads
- High temperature loading
- Material fatigue under complex stresses
- Boundary layer technology, especially thermal processes and electron beam treatment
- High-speed material behaviour
- Corrosion research
Institute of Electronic and Sensors Materials
- Materials research for semiconductor memories (materials for charge trapping memories and switchable inorganic and organic materials)
- Materials research for chemical sensors (solid electrolyte sensors, field effect sensors)
Foundry-Institute
- Development of casting concepts
- Innovative moulding materials and moulding processes
- Process-integrated environmental protection
- Technology of casting materials
Institute of Metal Forming
- Technology development for resource- and cost-efficient semi-finished production of metallic flat and long products as well as components made from them.
- Technology development for the casting-rolling and thermomechanical rolling of magnesium flat and long products
- Development of innovative metallic materials with customised property combinations
- Characterisation of forming behaviour and development of a material database
- Model development for material flow and microstructure and property development during forming and heat treatment
- Development of fast simulation systems for semi-finished product and component production
- Development of an autonomous, AI-based metallography analysis system
- Simulation and development of calibre sequences and rolling strategies for the production of profiled long products
Institute of Iron and Steel Technology
- Iron and steel production from primary and secondary raw materials, recycling of steels, slags and metallurgical dusts.
- Primary and secondary metallurgical processes in iron and steel production
- Clean Steel (degree of purity, non-metallic egg closures, by-elements)
- Green Steel (hydrogen metallurgy in iron and steelmaking, H2 reduction of iron carriers)
- Metal-slag equilibria (dephosphorisation, desulphurisation, etc.)
- Thermophysical properties of metallic and oxide melts at elevated temperatures (viscosity, surface tension, density, thermal conductivity, crystallisation and flow behaviour)
- Atomisation of metal melts and composites to produce metal powders
- Development of Fe-TiC composites for additive manufacturing
- Adjustment of powder size and powder morphology via thermophysical properties of liquid metals
- Development of new high alloy TRIP/TWIP steels
- Research into Quenching & Partitioning (Q&P) technology for high alloy steels
- Development of high Si Cu-alloyed electrical sheets (6.5 % Si)
- Processes and plants for the extraction and refining of non-ferrous metals from complexly composed primary and secondary raw materials and process solutions.
- Pyrometallurgical high-performance processes for metal extraction and recycling
- Thermodynamic modelling and flow modelling in metallurgical aggregates
- Production and characterisation of electronic materials
- Model experiments for semiconductor crystal growth