Small load electrodynamic testing machine

• Subject Area: Mechanics and Constructive Mechanical Engineering
• Term: Funded in 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 537597911

The application is for an electrodynamic small-load testing machine with various testing tools and force measuring units for carrying out material and component testing tasks in the area of design for additive manufacturing and implantology. In the field of additive manufacturing, the focus is on the design-related testing of specimens and components, as well as on the examination of joining and delamination of components made of additively manufactured, partly fibre-reinforced plastics. This requires precise load measurement down to low load ranges as well as testing tools such as compression plates, bending fixtures and clamping jaws for round and flat specimens. The tests in the static and cyclic load range are used both to determine material data for model calibration and to validate simulation models. This is the only way to make early, reliable statements and thus shorten development times. The implantology research group focuses its research activities on the human-centred design of implants. Musculoskeletal biomechanics simulation is closely linked with layer development and biotribological investigation in order to be able to describe individual, application-oriented requirements in the peri-implant environment in an integral manner. Experimental testing of the long-term behaviour of implants in an electrodynamic testing machine is required precisely for validation and to meet medical technology and, in particular, medical law requirements. An ancillary use by the rolling bearing technology working group is to enable initial potential studies of coated rolling bearing cages.

• DFG Programme: Major Research Instrumentation
• Major Instrumentation: Elektrodynamische Kleinlastprüfmaschine
• Instrumentation Group: 2910 Dynamische Prüfmaschinen und -anlagen, Pulser
• Applicant Institution: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
• Leader: Professor Dr.-Ing. Sandro Wartzack