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Zur Eigenspannungsausbildung bei der wickeltechnischen Verarbeitung thermoplastischer Bandhalbzeuge
(2005)
Filament winding is today a well established production technique for fiber reinforced
pressure vessels. Most of the parts are still made using thermosets as matrix material,
but parts with thermoplastic matrices are today on the edge to mass production.
Usually these parts are made from fully consolidated unidirectional fiber reinforced
thermoplastic tapes. During processing the matrix material is molten and the tapes
are placed on the substrate where they re-solidify. A wide range of material combinations
are available on the market. The materials used in the present investigation are
semi-crystalline thermoplastics and glass or carbon fiber i.e. carbon fiber reinforced
Polyetheretherketone, glass fiber reinforced Polyetheretherketone and glass fiber
reinforced Polypropylene.
Applications can be found in the field of medium and high pressure vessels like they
are used for natural gas and hydrogen storage or for tubes and pipes for their transport.
During the design of such parts mostly idealized properties as for example tensile
strength are used. Residual stresses which are inherent for composite materials
are only considered as part of the safety factor.
The present work investigates the generation of residual stresses for in-situ consolidation
during filament winding. Within this process consolidation of the tape material
and the substrate takes place immediately after the tapes are placed. This is contrary
to the normal curing of thermoset materials and has a large influence on the generation
of the residual stress. The impact of these stresses on the behavior of the produced
parts during service is one of the topics of this investigation. Therefore the
background of thermal residual stresses in semi-crystalline thermoplastic parts is discussed
and a closer look on the crystallization behavior of the matrix materials was
taken. As the beginning of the crystal growth is a major point in the generation of thermal residual stress.
The aim of the present work is to find process parameter combinations that allow to
compensate the thermal residual stresses and to generate a residual stress profile
that – unlike the thermal residual stresses - brings about structural benefit. Ring
samples with a defined geometry were made to measure the generated stresses.
The geometry of the samples was chosen in a way that prevents influences of the
boundary conditions of the free edges on the measuring point.
In the investigations the residual stresses were measured in circumferential direction
using a method where the ring samples were cut in radial direction and the deformation
was measured using strain gages. From the strain the local stress can be determined.
It was tried to minimize the number of experiments. Therefore the influence of filament
winding process parameters on the residual stress were investigated using a
Design of Experiments approach where the main influences on the residual stress
generation can be found from a relatively small number of experiments such as 8
instead of 128. As a result of these experiments it was found that the winding angle,
the mandrel temperature, the annealing, the wall thickness and the tape tension have
a significant influence on residual stresses. With increasing winding angles the influence
on the measured circumferential stresses increase regardless to kind of residual
stresses. The mandrel temperature has a large influence on the temperature difference
that causes the stress between fiber and matrix. They are caused by different
thermal expansion coefficients of fiber and matrix. Structural benefit through annealing
is only theoretically possible because the required outside temperatures
along with internal cooling of the parts can not be realized within an industrial processes.
Increasing wall thickness leads to also increasing residual stress but it can not
be the aim to build oversized parts for the sake of residual stresses. The applied tape
tension was identified as a parameter that can be used to achieve the desired residual
stress state with reasonable efforts.
Different ways of varying the tape tension with increasing wall thickness were investigated.
The tape tension was increased with every layer to a chosen maximum value or, after half of the layers were placed, in one step to the maximum value. Furthermore
a continuously high tape tension and a variant without tape tension was investigated.
The experiments led to the conclusion that increasing tape tension with increasing
wall thickness is a viable way to have structural benefit from residual stress.
The increasing in one step gave the best results.
The impact of the thermal history during production is discussed as well. Temperatures
must not exceed the softening point of the matrix. Otherwise a part of the tape
tension gets lost by relaxation. In a particular case the relaxation reached an amount
where the compensation of the thermal stresses failed. Thermodynamic calculations
led to the conclusion that the energy transfer into the material by mandrel heating
and melt energy caused a temperature above the softening point.
The impact of tape tension on material quality is documented. Very low tape tension
can not guarantee a proper consolidation. On the other hand excessive tape tension
can lead to matrix squeeze out and in particular cases to cracks due to too high residual
stresses. Therefore the tape tension profile should be well adapted to work
load, the composite and its properties.
Investigations on the relaxation behavior of the residual stresses showed that relaxation
occurs and that a part of the residual stress relaxes when the samples were exposed
to higher temperatures. Test at room temperature showed no significant sign
of relaxation. When the temperature was raised – in this case to 80 °C - the samples
clearly relaxed. The amount of induced residual stress sank to half of its initial value.
Investigations on the structural benefit showed that material savings of up to 23 % of
weight are possible for high pressure applications and fiber reinforcements with relatively
low fiber volume content. Higher fiber volume contents which also mean higher
strengths reduce the benefit. As the strength of the material increases the benefit
reduces in relation to it.
Nevertheless there is a potential in material saving and one should keep in mind that
the costs to establish the equipment to control the tape tension is cheap in comparison
to the achievable result.
In dieser Arbeit sollten Liganden für Übergangsmetalle auf Basis von cyclischen Peptiden mit natürlichen und nicht-natürlichen Aminosäureuntereinheiten entwickelt werden. Durch die chiralen Aminosäuren in den Cyclopeptiden sollte deren Chiralität auf den Metallkomplex übertragen werden. Dadurch könnten Materialien für die Racematspaltung auf Basis von Koordinationsnetzwerken oder chirale Rezeptoren mit geeigneten Hohlräumen auf Basis von diskreten Koordinationsverbindungen zugänglich werden. Cyclische Kationenrezeptoren können als Wirkstoff in der Medizin Anwendung finden, zum Beispiel als Mimetikum für Ionophore wie Valinomycin.
Im ersten Teil der Arbeit wurden die Synthesen einer Reihe von Cyclotetrapeptiden, welche in alternierender Reihenfolge Prolin- und nicht-cyclische α-Aminosäureuntereinheiten enthielten, verfolgt. Als vielversprechendste Grundstruktur erwies sich dabei ein Cyclotetrapeptid mit D-Phenylalanin und L-4-Azido-Prolineinheiten, da es eine Vielzahl von möglichen Funktionalisierungen über die Azidgruppen ermöglichte. Durch Einführung geeigneter funktioneller Gruppen in der Peripherie des Cyclopeptidrings wurden Koordinationsstellen für Metallzentren geschaffen. Von den erhaltenen Produkten eignete sich keins für den Aufbau von Koordinationsnetzwerken (Metal-organic frameworks; MOF). Die Ursache ist höchstwahrscheinlich die zu hohe Flexibilität der betreffenden Cyclopeptide. Die hohe Flexibilität dieser Verbindungen wurde ebenfalls bei den Versuchen zur Darstellung von diskreten Koordinationsverbindungen mit Pd(II) deutlich. Hier wurde ein dinuklearer Pd(II)-Komplex erhalten, in dem die beiden Cyclopeptidliganden charakteristisch andere Konformationen annehmen als in der freien Form.
Weiterhin wurde im zweiten Teil der Arbeit eine Synthese für Cyclohexapeptide mit N-alkylierten 5-Amino-4-oxo-1,4-dihydropyridin-3-carbonsäureeinheiten entwickelt. Das gewünschte Produkt wurde in einer 16-stufigen Synthese erhalten. NMR-spektroskopische Studien zeigten, dass es in Lösung ein komplexes Konformerengleichgewicht aufweist. Die Studien deuten außerdem an, dass es mit Alkalimetallionen in Lösung wechselwirkt.
Using valuation theory we associate to a one-dimensional equidimensional semilocal Cohen-Macaulay ring \(R\) its semigroup of values, and to a fractional ideal of \(R\) we associate its value semigroup ideal. For a class of curve singularities (here called admissible rings) including algebroid curves the semigroups of values, respectively the value semigroup ideals, satisfy combinatorial properties defining good semigroups, respectively good semigroup ideals. Notably, the class of good semigroups strictly contains the class of value semigroups of admissible rings. On good semigroups we establish combinatorial versions of algebraic concepts on admissible rings which are compatible with their prototypes under taking values. Primarily we examine duality and quasihomogeneity.
We give a definition for canonical semigroup ideals of good semigroups which characterizes canonical fractional ideals of an admissible ring in terms of their value semigroup ideals. Moreover, a canonical semigroup ideal induces a duality on the set of good semigroup ideals of a good semigroup. This duality is compatible with the Cohen-Macaulay duality on fractional ideals under taking values.
The properties of the semigroup of values of a quasihomogeneous curve singularity lead to a notion of quasihomogeneity on good semigroups which is compatible with its algebraic prototype. We give a combinatorial criterion which allows to construct from a quasihomogeneous semigroup \(S\) a quasihomogeneous curve singularity having \(S\) as semigroup of values.
As an application we use the semigroup of values to compute endomorphism rings of maximal ideals of algebroid curves. This yields an explicit description of the intermediate rings in an algorithmic normalization of plane central arrangements of smooth curves based on a criterion by Grauert and Remmert. Applying this result to hyperplane arrangements we determine the number of steps needed to compute the normalization of a the arrangement in terms of its Möbius function.
The phase field approach is a powerful tool that can handle even complicated fracture phenomena within an apparently simple framework. Nonetheless, a profound understanding of the model is required in order to be able to interpret the obtained results correctly. Furthermore, in the dynamic case the phase field model needs to be verified in comparison to experimental data and analytical results in order to increase the trust in this new approach. In this thesis, a phase field model for dynamic brittle fracture is investigated with regard to these aspects by analytical and numerical methods
Zur kontinuierlichen Herstellung von Faser-Kunstoff-Verbunden in Form von Profilen
hat sich das Pultrusionsverfahren seit langem erfolgreich industriell etabliert. Bis jetzt
wurden fast ausschließlich duroplastische Matrizes verwendet. Aufgrund der
zahlreichen Vorteile wecken thermoplastische Faserverbundwerkstoffe zunehmend
das Interesse der Industrie; der Einsatz und die Fertigung von thermoplastischen
Profilen in hohen Stückzahlen werden jedoch bislang wegen mangelnder
Grundkenntnisse noch nicht realisiert.
In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird der Pultrusionsprozess thermoplastischer
Faserverbundwerkstoffe im Hinblick auf Realisierbarkeit und Optimierung von
Prozessparametern untersucht. Ziel war es bereits vorliegende Erkenntnisse zu
erweitern und bestehende Wissenslücken zu schließen. Als Ausgangsmaterial
wurden verschiedene Garntypen verwendet: ein Garn aus Kohlenstoff- und Polyamid
12-Fasern, ein Mischgarn aus Glas- und Polypropylen-Fasern sowie Polypropylen
pulverimprägnierte Glasfasern (sogenannte Towpregs). Besonderes Augenmerk lag
auf dem ersten Garntyp aus CF/PA12, der diskontinuierliche Fasern enthält. Mit
diesen Materialien wurden unidirektional faserverstärkte, rechteckige und runde
Profile hergestellt. Weiterhin wurde der Einfluss von zwei Hauptprozessparametern,
die Temperatur der Vorheizzone und der Heizdüse und die Abzugsgeschwindigkeit,
sowie von der Länge der Heizdüse auf die Profilqualität analysiert. Die jeweils
verwendeten Garntypen, der sich einsstellende Faservolumengehalt sowie der
Feuchtigkeitseinfluss wurden zusätzlich systematisch untersucht. Weiterhin wurde
die Abzugskraft analysiert.
Die Charakterisierung der Pultrudatqualität erfolgte durch mechanische und
morphologische Prüfungen. Der Imprägnierungsgrad, die Biegeeigenschaften und
die Scherfestigkeit, sowie zweitrangig die Charpy-Schlagzähigkeit und die
Zugeigenschaften wurden hierzu ermittelt und anschließend bewertet. Weiterhin
wurde die Oberflächenqualität mittels Laserprofilometrie untersucht.
Einen entscheidenden Faktor stellte die Abzugsgeschwindigkeit dar. Bis auf die
Oberfläche wurden Verschlechterungen der Imprägnierung und der mechanischen
Eigenschaften mit zunehmender Geschwindigkeit beobachtet.
Weiterhin wurde der Abkühlungsprozess untersucht. Die bei der Pultrusion
vorhandenen Abkühlraten sind sehr hoch und werden von der
Abzugsgeschwindigkeit sowie der Kühldüsentemperatur beeinflusst.Die Erstellung eines Verarbeitungsfensters für das Garn aus CF/PA12 wurde
erfolgreich durch Verwendung einer Qualitätskennzahl durchgeführt.
Des Weiteren wurde die Erstarrung und der Prozess der Kristallisation aus der
Schmelze für das CF/PA12 System näher untersucht. Zur Beschreibung der
isothermen sowie nicht-isothermen Kristallisationskinetik wurden verschiedene
Methoden angewandt. In diesem Zusammenhang lieferten das Modell von Chuah
zufriedenstellende Ergebnisse.
Weiterhin erfolgte die Modellierung der Wärmeübertragung zur Vorhersage der
Temperatur im Material während der Pultrusion mit der Finiten Elemente Methode.
Aufbauend hierauf können im Versuchsvorfeld die am besten geeigneten
Werkzeugtemperatur-/Abzugsgeschwindigkeitskombinationen eingestellt werden.
The popularity of composite materials is constantly growing, which can be verified by
the rising number of composite parts in our everyday life. Examples of composite
parts can be found in the Airbus A 380 or the constantly increasing number of wind
turbines which contain composite rotor blades of over 50m length. Because of the
main features of composites, which are light weight combined with high strength and
the possibility of tailoring the strength and the stiffness of the composite according to
the requirements, their application is highly efficient and economic.
In order to manufacture a composite part by employing a Liquid Composite Molding
Process (LCM), it is first necessary to select an appropriate manufacturing process
such as the Resin Transfer Molding Process (RTM) and to design a mold which corresponds
to the requirements of the selected process. Then the stacking sequence of
the individual fibrous reinforcements is designed to withstand the loads on the final
part. To achieve an efficient composite manufacturing process, pre-shaped, handable,
dry reinforcing structures, so called preforms, need to be applied. Such preforms
can be assembled either by using conventional binder technologies or by the
recently developed “cut and sew approach”. A variety of available software simulation
tools support the design engineer in this task. These tools are, on the one hand, a
fast way of gaining information about the expected loads the mold has to endure during
the injection process. On the other hand, they provide the possibility to optimize
the injection process and its process parameters and to identify critical points of incomplete
saturation. With this information at hand, the design of the mold can be adjusted
in order to obtain optimal processing conditions for a slim and efficient production
cycle.
A prerequisite for employing these powerful simulation tools is to obtain thorough
knowledge of the required input parameters concerning the fibrous reinforcement to
be used. The most important input parameters are the compaction behavior and the
permeability of the fibrous stacking sequence. Because of the absence of modelbased
tools to provide this input information experimental determination methods
have to be employed.
This work introduces two semi-automated measurement cells which determine the inplane
permeability of fibrous reinforcements in an efficient manner, i.e. the dielectrical permeability work cell and the optical compaction and permeability work cell. The
latter of which can determine both the required compaction and the permeability information
in one single experiment. The design and manner of operating of the optical
compaction and permeability work cell is described and its functionality is validated
by a comparison of experimental results.
The complexity of modern real-time systems is increasing day by day. This inevitable rise in complexity predominantly stems from two contradicting requirements, i.e., ever increasing demand for functionality, and required low cost for the final product. The development of modern multi-processors and variety of network protocols and architectures have enabled such a leap in complexity and functionality possible. Albeit, efficient use of these multi-processors and network architectures is still a major problem. Moreover, the software design and its development process needs improvements in order to support rapid-prototyping for ever changing system designs. Therefore, in this dissertation, we provide solutions for different problems faced in the development and deployment process of real-time systems. The contributions presented in this thesis enable efficient utilization of system resources, rapid design & development and component modularity & portability.
In order to ease the certification process, time-triggered computation model is often used in distributed systems. However, time-triggered scheduling is NP-hard, due to which the process of schedule generation for complex large systems becomes convoluted. Large scheduler run-times and low scalability are two major problems with time-triggered scheduling. To solve these problems, we present a modular real-time scheduler based on a novel search-tree pruning technique, which consumes less time (compared to the state-of-the-art) in order to schedule tasks on large distributed time-triggered systems. In order to provide end-to-end guarantees, we also extend our modular scheduler to quickly generate schedules for time-triggered network traffic in large TTEthernet based networks. We evaluate our schedulers on synthetic but practical task-sets and demonstrate that our pruning technique efficiently reduces scheduler run-times and exhibits adequate scalability for future time-triggered distributed systems.
In safety critical systems, the certification process also requires strict isolation between independent components. This isolation is enforced by utilizing resource partitioning approach, where different criticality components execute in different partitions (each temporally and spatially isolated from each other). However, existing partitioning approaches use periodic servers or tasks to service aperiodic activities. This approach leads to utilization loss and potentially leads to large latencies. On the contrary to the periodic approaches, state-of-the-art aperiodic task admission algorithms do not suffer from problems like utilization loss. However, these approaches do not support partitioned scheduling or mixed-criticality execution environment. To solve this problem, we propose an algorithm for online admission of aperiodic tasks which provides job execution flexibility, jitter control and leads to lower latencies of aperiodic tasks.
For safety critical systems, fault-tolerance is one of the most important requirements. In time-triggered systems, modes are often used to ensure survivability against faults, i.e., when a fault is detected, current system configuration (or mode) is changed such that the overall system performance is either unaffected or degrades gracefully. In literature, it has been asserted that a task-set might be schedulable in individual modes but unschedulable during a mode-change. Moreover, conventional mode-change execution strategies might cause significant delays until the next mode is established. In order to address these issues, in this dissertation, we present an approach for schedulability analysis of mode-changes and propose mode-change delay reduction techniques in distributed system architecture defined by the DREAMS project. We evaluate our approach on an avionics use case and demonstrate that our approach can drastically reduce mode-change delays.
In order to manage increasing system complexity, real-time applications also require new design and development technologies. Other than fulfilling the technical requirements, the main features required from such technologies include modularity and re-usability. AUTOSAR is one of these technologies in automotive industry, which defines an open standard for software architecture of a real-time operating system. However, being an industrial standard, the available proprietary tools do not support model extensions and/or new developments by third-parties and, therefore, hinder the software evolution. To solve this problem, we developed an open-source AUTOSAR toolchain which supports application development and code generation for several modules. In order to exhibit the capabilities of our toolchain, we developed two case studies. These case studies demonstrate that our toolchain generates valid artifacts, avoids dirty workarounds and supports application development.
In order to cope with evolving system designs and hardware platforms, rapid-development of scheduling and analysis algorithms is required. In order to ease the process of algorithm development, a number of scheduling and analysis frameworks are proposed in literature. However, these frameworks focus on a specific class of applications and are limited in functionality. In this dissertation, we provide the skeleton of a scheduling and analysis framework for real-time systems. In order to support rapid-development, we also highlight different development components which promote code reuse and component modularity.
Asynchronous concurrency is a wide-spread way of writing programs that
deal with many short tasks. It is the programming model behind
event-driven concurrency, as exemplified by GUI applications, where the
tasks correspond to event handlers, web applications based around
JavaScript, the implementation of web browsers, but also of server-side
software or operating systems.
This model is widely used because it provides the performance benefits of
concurrency together with easier programming than multi-threading. While
there is ample work on how to implement asynchronous programs, and
significant work on testing and model checking, little research has been
done on handling asynchronous programs that involve heap manipulation, nor
on how to automatically optimize code for asynchronous concurrency.
This thesis addresses the question of how we can reason about asynchronous
programs while considering the heap, and how to use this this to optimize
programs. The work is organized along the main questions: (i) How can we
reason about asynchronous programs, without ignoring the heap? (ii) How
can we use such reasoning techniques to optimize programs involving
asynchronous behavior? (iii) How can we transfer these reasoning and
optimization techniques to other settings?
The unifying idea behind all the results in the thesis is the use of an
appropriate model encompassing global state and a promise-based model of
asynchronous concurrency. For the first question, We start from refinement
type systems for sequential programs and extend them to perform precise
resource-based reasoning in terms of heap contents, known outstanding
tasks and promises. This extended type system is known as Asynchronous
Liquid Separation Types, or ALST for short. We implement ALST in for OCaml
programs using the Lwt library.
For the second question, we consider a family of possible program
optimizations, described by a set of rewriting rules, the DWFM rules. The
rewriting rules are type-driven: We only guarantee soundness for programs
that are well-typed under ALST. We give a soundness proof based on a
semantic interpretation of ALST that allows us to show behavior inclusion
of pairs of programs.
For the third question, we address an optimization problem from industrial
practice: Normally, JavaScript files that are referenced in an HTML file
are be loaded synchronously, i.e., when a script tag is encountered, the
browser must suspend parsing, then load and execute the script, and only
after will it continue parsing HTML. But in practice, there are numerous
JavaScript files for which asynchronous loading would be perfectly sound.
First, we sketch a hypothetical optimization using the DWFM rules and a
static analysis.
To actually implement the analysis, we modify the approach to use a
dynamic analysis. This analysis, known as JSDefer, enables us to analyze
real-world web pages, and provide experimental evidence for the efficiency
of this transformation.
Das virtuelle, optische Messen wird in der industriellen Anwendung häufig vernachlässigt. Um optische Messergebnisse jedoch vorhersehbar und zuverlässig zu machen, ist es erforderlich, Sensoren zu modellieren und die Resultate, sogenannte virtuelle Messergebnisse, zu analysieren. Die zulässigen Modellvereinfachungen sind dabei vom zugrunde liegenden, physikalischen Messprinzip abhängig. In dieser Arbeit werden zwei virtuelle, optische Sensoren mit unterschiedlichen Messprinzipien unter paraxialen Annahmen modelliert. Zudem werden Untersuchungen zum Übertragungsverhalten der Sensoren angestellt. Beim ersten Sensor handelt es sich um einen winkelauflösenden Streulichtsensor zur Messung der statistischen Verteilung von Gradienten geometrischer Oberflächen. Der zweite Sensor ist ein kurzkohärentes Interferometer zur vertikal hochauflösenden Messung von Topographien. Während dem winkelauflösenden Messprinzip ein inkohärenter Modellansatz zugrunde liegt, werden beim Interferometer kohärente Annahmen getroffen. Mithilfe der Sensormodelle ist es möglich, geometrische Oberflächen virtuell anzutasten und, basierend auf generierten oder real gemessenen Topographiedaten, virtuelle Messungen anzustellen. Auf diese Weise werden umfangreiche Untersuchungen zum Übertragungsverhalten der Sensoren ermöglicht. Darüber hinaus wird ein eigens entwickeltes, VTK-basiertes Programm vorgestellt, das die nichtsequentielle Berechnung optischer Sensoren ermöglicht. Dieses Programm nutzt Ray Tracing zur Simulation nichtsequentieller, optischer Systeme. Des Weiteren werden Ansätze für die parallele Datenverarbeitung mit CUDA® vorgestellt. Der paraxial modellierte, winkelauflösende Streulichtsensor wird demnach zusätzlich nichtsequentiell simuliert und die Ergebnisse der paraxialen und der nichtsequentiellen Berechnung werden gegenübergestellt.
Thermoplastische Faser-Kunststoff-Verbunde (TP-FKV) rücken aufgrund ihrer guten Verarbeit- und Rezyklierbarkeit immer weiter in den Fokus der Automobilindustrie. Sie können effizient in serientauglichen Fließpress- oder Umformprozessen zu Bauteilen verarbeitet werden und bringen gute chemische, mechanische und thermische Eigenschaften mit. Die resultierenden Bauteile werden anschließend in Baugruppen eingesetzt, deren Strukturbauteile nach wie vor hauptsächlich aus Metallen bestehen. An der Schnittstelle zwischen TP-FKV und Metall entsteht ein Verbindungsproblem, das bisher meist durch Schrauben, Nieten oder Kleben gelöst wird. Allerdings werden diese Verfahren den speziellen Anforderungen der TP-FKV nicht gerecht und bringen zusätzliches Material in das Bauteil ein. TP-FKV eignen sich aufgrund der Schmelzbarkeit der thermoplastischen Matrix für thermische Fügeverfahren. Da die thermoplastische Matrix selbst als Klebstoff genutzt werden kann, entsteht eine flächige Verbindung, ohne dass Bohrungen oder zusätzliches Material notwendig sind. Außerdem kann durch eine geeignete Vorbehandlung der Metalloberfläche ein Formschluss erzielt und so die Festigkeit signifikant gesteigert werden.
In der vorliegenden Arbeit wurden ein diskontinuierlicher und ein kontinuierlicher, induktiver Schweißprozess entwickelt und optimiert. Dazu wurde ein Prüfstand ent-worfen und aufgebaut, der auf beide Prozesse angepasst werden kann. Beim konti-nuierlichen Induktionsschweißen konnte die Prozessgeschwindigkeit durch den Einsatz einer Bauteilkühlung ohne Beeinträchtigung der Fügefestigkeit auf mehr als 1m/min gesteigert werden. Beim diskontinuierlichen Schweißen wurde die bisher verwendete, sehr fehleranfällige temperaturbasierte Prozessregelung durch eine Wegregelung ersetzt. So konnte ein stabiler, voll automatisierter Schweißprozess entwickelt werden. Zum Abschluss wurde die Eignung des Induktionsschweißens für die industrielle Anwendung am Beispiel eines Unterbodenblechs eines Nutzfahrzeuges gezeigt. Hier konnte durch diskontinuierliches Induktionsschweißen in Kombination mit der Vorbehandlung des metallischen Fügepartners durch Laserstrukturierung die gleiche Performance wie bei dem ursprünglichen, genieteten Ansatz erzielt werden. Es steht mit dem Induktionsschweißen also ein Fügeprozess zur Verfügung, der sowohl hinsichtlich Effizienz als auch Festigkeit für die industrielle Anwendung geeignet ist.