The demands now being made on metallic structures are increasingly complex, since the strains and application loading-profiles which occur are locally limited and inhomogeneous. Therefore, high-strength structures having optimised material properties have to be developed.Based upon the research goals and target problems of Collaborative Research Centre 675, mass laws and process models are investigated which clearly and predictably relate materials and processing parameters to characteristic property values, shapes and dimensions. In this work, development and manufacturing processes are considered and integrated; beginning from the original choice of material, going via the scaling-up of local material properties and leading right up to the creation of the final manufactured component.
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