Professorship of Conveying Engineering and Materials Handling

Main object of running research projects of our research group ´Textile Machine Elements´ is to develop more efficient tension members and suspension elements for mechanical engineering, especially for machinery and equipment for materials handling and hoisting applications, and to ensure their effective manufacturing.

Based on the results of the InnoZug project, following subject-specific priorities can be determined:

• Completion of systematic research on textile mechanical components
• Derivation of models for analytic estimation of the life cycle of technical mechanical components
• Designing of measuring procedures for recognition and measurement of the state of damage
• Development of appropriate processing methods and finishing processes
• Creation of new conveyor systems by applicating textile mechanical components
• Inspection, standardised testing and practically relevant testing (strength, wear and tear, creep behaviour, behaviour in spooling and winding applications, etc.)
• Advanced training (rope technology, finishing technology, inspection and testing)
• Compilation of expertises (strength and fatigue analysis / analysis of potentials for optimisation, evaluation of load scenarios and resulting damage and wear)
• Development and design (development of rope constructions and rope applications, optimisation of rope properties by coating and finishing, prototyping)