Summary
- Profile Type
- Technology offer
- POD Reference
- TODE20240715010
- Term of Validity
- 18 July 2024 - 18 July 2025
- Company's Country
- Germany
- Type of partnership
- Commercial agreement with technical assistance
- Research and development cooperation agreement
- Targeted Countries
- All countries
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General information
- Short Summary
- A German non-university research institute, is specialized in the development of monolithic and fiber-reinforced ceramics. They combine materials expertise with their know-how in computer simulation and artificial intelligence (AI) to develop the most suitable ceramic for the desired application. A wide range of manufacturing processes and the necessary furnaces are at their disposal. In their testing laboratory, materials and components can be tested and characterized up to 1,500 °C
- Full Description
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Their research facility uses a wide variety of methods to develop ceramics and powder metallurgical materials along the entire production chain. They can develop oxide ceramics, non-oxide ceramics, silicate ceramics, powdered metals, fine-grain graphites and hard metals, from powder preparation to shaping and heat processes through to final processing.
Their second focus is on the development of fiber-reinforced ceramics (ceramic matrix composites, CMCs) such as carbon fiber-reinforced SiC (C/SiC), silicon carbide fiber-reinforced SiC (SiC/SiC) as well as oxide fiber-reinforced CMCs. As CMCs can only be used in special applications due to their manufacturing costs, cost-effective CMCs up to 1,000 °C are developed according to customer requirements. The entire process chain, from fiber production via textile processing to matrix construction and system integration is available in-house. Their production facilities enable the production of material samples, prototypes and small series up to pilot scale.
Heat processes for the production of ceramics and metals are optimized with regard to energy and cost efficiency as well as product quality using in-situ methods. Relevant processes include drying, debinding, pyrolysis, sintering, melt infiltration and various processes from the field of melting metallurgy. There is often potential for improvement in the temperature-time profiles, the furnace atmosphere or the arrangement of the heat treatment material in the industrial furnace. Optimization goals are a high and reproducible product quality with good material, energy and cost efficiency of the processes. Both the furnace perspective and the perspective of the material to be heated are equally taken into account.
In accordance with customer requirements, material development begins with the selection and design of suitable materials and additives, supported by extensive material and thermodynamics databases. With the help of specially developed software and artificial intelligence, the material properties of multiphase materials can be precisely predicted. The influences of the manufacturing process on the microstructure, which would lead to defects, are taken into account. The combination of simulation, database evaluation and experiments enables faster and more targeted material development compared to conventional methods.
Numerous non-destructive, mechanical and thermophysical testing methods are available at the research facility. In addition to material defects, non-destructive testing methods can also be used to analyze the microstructure and homogeneity of materials. These are evaluated using AI algorithms and transferred to subsequent material simulations. Mechanical tests are carried out between room temperature and 1500 °C. Both quasi-static and dynamic-cyclic load profiles can be realized. - Advantages and Innovations
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Expertise in ceramic development according to customer-specific requirements
In-house manufacturing capabilities from laboratory scale to small series production
Thermal process optimization
Mechanical testing: RT – 1,500 °C
Non-destructive testing - Stage of Development
- Concept stage
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
- IPR description
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They are looking for partners who are interested in:
Ceramic and CMC development
Material simulation using AI
Thermal process optimization with in-situ methods
Mechanical testing: RT – 1,500 °C
Non-destructive testing
Partner Sought
- Expected Role of a Partner
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They are looking for partners who are interested in:
- Digital ceramic development
- Multiscale simulation
- Monolithic ceramics
- Oxide and non-oxide Ceramic Matrix Composites
- Mechanical testing: RT – 1,500 °C
- Non-destructive testing” - Type and Size of Partner
- SME 11-49
- SME 50 - 249
- University
- Other
- SME <=10
- R&D Institution
- Type of partnership
- Commercial agreement with technical assistance
- Research and development cooperation agreement
Dissemination
- Technology keywords
- 02007003 - Ceramic Materials and Powders
- Market keywords
- 02007014 - Other industry specific software
- 08001007 - Coatings and adhesives manufactures
- 08001013 - Ceramics
- 03007002 - Other measuring devices
- 08001004 - Fibre-reinforced (plastic) composites
- Targeted countries
- All countries