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Multifunctional Lightweight Structures

Resource Efficiency by MERGE of Key Enabling Technologies

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  • Provides an overview of leading-edge hybrid lightweight construction methods
  • Illustrates new perspectives for large-scale lightweight construction technologies
  • Underpins resource efficiency in the manufacture and use of lightweight structures
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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
  2. Introduction

    • Lothar Kroll
    Pages 1-7
  3. Hybrid designs and technologies

    • Lothar Kroll
    Pages 9-39
  4. Metal-based hybrid technologies

    • Lothar Kroll
    Pages 155-293
  5. Textile- and plastic-based technologies

    • Lothar Kroll
    Pages 295-406
  6. Surface and interface technologies

    • Lothar Kroll
    Pages 509-562
  7. Internationalization

    • Lothar Kroll
    Pages 631-636
  8. Summary and outlook

    • Lothar Kroll
    Pages 637-639
  9. Appendix

    • Lothar Kroll
    Pages 641-644
  10. List of abbreviations

    • Lothar Kroll
    Pages 645-647
  11. Facts and figures

    • Lothar Kroll
    Pages 649-653
  12. Back Matter

    Pages 655-658

About this book

This book presents key research findings on the combination of different technologies that promise to be particularly sustainable and broadly impactful in their application. The findings were compiled during the course of the first funding period for the MERGE Cluster of Excellence. New methods, potential solutions, and exemplary pilot applications take center stage as the text explores the next generation of functional integration via lightweight structures. The underlying manufacturing processes are based on textile, polymer, and metal processing techniques, all of which are suitable for large batch production, flexibility, and reproducibility. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Cluster of Excellence MERGE, Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany

    Lothar Kroll

About the editor

Prof. Lothar Kroll directs the Institute of Lightweight Structures and the Affiliated Institute CETEX at Chemnitz University of Technology and holds two further honorary professorships at other institutions. As part of his professorship of Lightweight Structures and Polymer Technology at TU Chemnitz and work as Head of the STEX Research Center at the Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology, his efforts focus on research and development in the area of textile-reinforced plastics and hybrid structures, as well as their manufacture and further processing.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Multifunctional Lightweight Structures

  • Book Subtitle: Resource Efficiency by MERGE of Key Enabling Technologies

  • Editors: Lothar Kroll

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-62217-9

  • Publisher: Springer Vieweg Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-62216-2Published: 29 March 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-62219-3Due: 14 April 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-62217-9Published: 28 March 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 658

  • Number of Illustrations: 600 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Manufacturing, Machines, Tools, Processes, Light Construction, Steel Construction, Timber Construction, Structural Materials

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eBook USD 149.00
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Softcover Book USD 139.99
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Hardcover Book USD 199.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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