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Research and Development
The research at the KTP is about different kinds of polymers as innovative solid material, the potential of which is by far not exhausted. Polymers become more and more significant in the field of mechanical engineering, above all in the automobile industry, and displace traditional materials in their application fields.
To adapt the processing performances optimally to the technical requirements, the KTP has developed application-oriented simulation tools for all fields of polymer processing. These software tools help to find solutions of problems quickly and make it possible to achieve a high process transparency.
The following figure illustrates the current research foci. There is a special concentration on the transformation of process models, which have been built on the basis of process analyses (experimentally or theoretically), into tools to simulate polymer processing procedures. The central aim is the simulation of the process chain from the molecule to the end product. Due to the experimental verification of the models and simulation tools as well as in return the use of simulation tools to improve the processes, an interplay between theory, experiment and modelling/simulation, in terms of a continuous improving process exists. To realize this strongly feedback-oriented proceeding, real processes in the laboratory- and production measure โ the latter often in cooperation with industrial partners โ are of the same importance than the theoretical and simulation-based analysis of the processes and the necessary IT- equipment and competence. Hence, the KTP emphasizes a good laboratory equipment.
