Continuous Profile Production with Hybrid Materials by Pultrusion

An important factor for the success of electromobility is lightweight design – the lower the mass of a vehicle, the less energy is required for acceleration and movement, and the smaller, lighter and cheaper battery and drive technology can be designed. In close cooperation with partners from science and industry, the Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology (IWU) develops solutions suitable for series production for a sustainable German automotive industry. Lightweight design in economical hybrid design is the focus of numerous development projects. In the research project “Hybrid Pultrusion”, the research partners Fraunhofer IWU and the Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e. V. (IPF) develop new methods for the reliable and reproducible production of hybrid components made of metal and fiber-reinforced plastics (FRP) by using the pultrusion process. A central focus in this project is the bonding mechanism between metal and FRP at the molecular level and the transfer of these phenomena to the pultrusion process.