Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials IFAM
Tailored Materials
Carbide formation for interface design in copper-diamond composites (SEM micrograph of a diamond after the extraction from a CuCr-diamond MMC)
Carbon fiber reinforced copper matrix composite
Metal-matrix-composite materials (MMC) with customised (optimised) property mix for functional and structural applications
- Development of materials for specified component requirements
- Development of technologies
- Consulting and retrievals on the use of MMCs
Goals
- Improve mechanical properties (strength, stiffness) at low density
- Increase heat resistance/ creep resistance
- Modify tribological and material behaviour according to specific component demands
- Reducing thermal expansion coefficient thereby keeping high conductivity
- Sensor/ actuator properties of metallic composite materials
Matrix materials
- Alloys based on aluminium, copper and magnesium
- Alloys based on highly melting metals
- Alloys based on rare earth metals
- Reinforcement components
- Particles from carbides or oxides
- Fibres from ceramics or graphite