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On January 12, 2025, Mr. Stefan Gabel successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled “New in-situ micro-bending beam methods for determining the fatigue life on the microscale and the fracture toughness of α-Cr / β-NiAl precipitation systems.” In his thesis, he developed innovative experimental ...

On January 9, 2026, Mr. Benedikt Ernst successfully defended his dissertation entitled: “Creep behavior of lead-free Sn-Ag3.8-Cu0.7 solder, taking into account the oligocrystalline microstructure of cast bulk samples.” The work was carried out in close cooperation with the Technical University of In...

The meeting of the working group “Mechanical Behavior of Materials at High Temperatures” on October 15, 2025, at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Garching provided a concise overview of current developments in high-temperature materials research. The combination of established to...

On July 22, 2025, Mr. Frédéric Houllé successfully defended his dissertation entitled: “Tailored large-scale atomostic simulations of regular and inverted microstructure Ni-base superalloys.” Due to the geographical distance of the examination committee, the defense took place online, and the celebr...

On Friday, July 11, 2025, Mr. Andreas Kirchmayer successfully defended his dissertation titled: "Investigation of the Influence of Different Grain Boundary Phases on the Mechanical Properties of Nickel- and Cobalt-Based Superalloys". The main objective of his work was to identify which phases pre...

On 23.06.2025, Mr. Lukas Haußmann successfully defended his doctorate with the title “Micromechanical investigation of the creep properties of Ni- and Co-based superalloys at elevated temperatures”. This outstanding doctorate was mainly due to the funding of the “SFB/Transregio 103 SUPERALLOY SIGLE ...

On Friday, May 9, 2025, around one hundred former graduates of the Chair came together to maintain old relationships and exchange ideas at the 13th alumni reunion. At the same time, the 60th anniversary of the Chair was celebrated. The day began with an “open-lab” event, where participants had the o...

On 06.05.2025, Mr. Daniel Elitzer successfully completed his doctorate with the topic “Effects of different process parameters on microstructure and properties of additively manufactured TiAl6V4 alloys for large-volume aerospace structural components”. A major focus here was on wire and arc additive...

The annual conference of the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS), which was held this year from March 23 to 27 at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas right on the famous Las Vegas Boulevard ("The Strip"), attracted more than 4,000 participants from industry and research, just as in previous ...

On 19.02.2025, Dr. Ing. Sebastian Krauß successfully completed his doctorate with the title: “Deformation mechanisms of laminar materials based on micromechanical and microtribological characterization”. The main focus was on the fatigue behavior of multilayer copper laminates and the lubrication pr...