Project description
The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (www.fraunhofer.com) currently operates 76 institutes and research institutions throughout Germany and is the world’s leading applied research organization. Around 30,000 employees work with an annual research budget of 2.9 billion euros. At the Fraunhofer IWM, 330 employees conduct research on materials and components with the aim of better understanding, developing, processing, and using them. In our projects, we bridge the gap between the properties of materials and the durability, safety and function of technical systems. We show ways and solutions for more energy efficiency and sustainability. After all, materials are crucial for climate neutrality, for the careful use of our planet's limited resources and for the sustainable transformation of our economy. Be part of change In our meso- and micromechanics group, we deal with understanding materials degradation through advanced, small-scale characterization techniques. You will utilize a novel measurement setup which can characterize fatigue properties of materials at very high throughput. This approach significantly accelerates fatigue testing and enables the rapid identification of promising fatigue-resistant materials. A wide variety of tasks await you:As a master thesis student you will be directly involved in our day-to-day research. On one hand, the thesis entails developing the automated high-throughput characterization setup as well as applying and validating the methodology on thin-film and/or additively manufactured material specimens. On the other hand, the thesis comprises analytical characterization of the specimen through electron microscopy and spectroscopy to understand the underlying degradation phenomena. In addition, you will coordinate with collaborators on specimen fabrication and characterization and develop automated data analysis workflows for the large amounts of fatigue data generated.
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