1st course: Lightweight design & identification of risks and opportunities
This course provides a comprehensive foundation in the principles and practices of structural lightweighting. Three modules cover essential topics in structural lightweighting and advanced techniques for optimizing material usage and reducing weight without sacrificing performance.
This series is ideal for engineers and designers who want to deepen their understanding of lightweight construction and explore the challenges and opportunities of innovative designs.Structural lightweight construction: The modules
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I. Basics
- Basics
- Strength, rigidity
- Compression, tension, beam, bending, torsion
- Load paths, load steps, FEM results, calculations, practical examples
- Weight-saving potential
- Basic weight loss techniques
- Material selection
- Component consolidation
- Grid structures and architectural materials
- Structural optimization
- Bionics
- Basics
II Advanced I
- Example for the evaluation of weight saving potentials
- Sandwich structures - Mechanics
- Sandwich structures - case study
- Topology optimization - Case study
- Topography optimization - case study
III Advanced II
- Generative design
- Bionics - arched structures
- Modeling of different materials
- Composite materials
- Plastic injection molding
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