Department leader at IPF / Professor at HTWD
Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e. V.
Germany
I'm material scientist working on extreme lightweight composites.
Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e. V.
Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e. V.
Research and Development Institution
Germany
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Spickenheuer studied aerospace engineering at Technische Universitat Dresden and Nihon University Koriyama, Japan. Since 2005, he has been a scientist at the Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e. V. (IPF) and in 2010 he was appointed Head of the Workgroup of Complex Structural Components. In 2013, he co-founded the IPF spin-off company Complex Fiber Structures GmbH. Dr. Spickenheuer obtained his PhD in material science in 2014 and was honored in the same year with the WAK Oechsler award for the best PhD thesis. His main research interest is the exploitation of anisotropic composite material properties for extreme lightweight structures by applying variable-axial fiber designs. Since 2021 he is an honored Professor at the University of Applied Science Dresden in the field of Materials and Simulation Techniques.
My organisation
The Department Tailored Lightweight Composites (TC) area deals with the theoretical and practical aspects of targeted material adaptations on the mesoscale and macroscale of predominantly continuous fiber-reinforced composites for extreme, highly optimized lightweight construction applications.
In addition to the efficient use of materials through the application of generative manufacturing processes, the focus is also on the highest possible functionalization of macroscopic structural components through holistic approaches in the development of design methods and component design.
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Additional questions
I am interested in the following CETPartnership thematic areas:
Service
Extreme lightweight design by variable-axial composite fiber placement
Development and manufacturing of composite structures by means of Tailored Fiber Placement (TFP) and Tailored Matrix Placement (TMP).
Department leader at IPF / Professor at HTWD at Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e. V.
Germany