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Chair of Lightweight Construction with Composite Materials

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Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Robert Böhm

Institutes
EMB | Institute for Development-Oriented Mechanical Engineering
TPMB | Institute for Technology and Production in Mechanical Engineering
Competence Centre
Competence Centre for Materials Research
Research profile
Advanced Materials

Contact
Room: NI236
Phone: +49 (0)341 3076 4177
Send e-mail | robert(dot)boehm(at)htwk-leipzig.de

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Career (PDF file)

Teaching

Bachelor's programme

  • Lightweight construction technologies
  • Design of fibre composite components

Master's programme

  • Polymer Materials/Fibre Reinforced Plastics
  • Multifunctional Lightweight Structures
  • Lightweight Structures
  • Calculation and simulation of composite structures

Research

  • Lightweight construction technologies
  • Fibre and textile-reinforced composites
  • Carbon fibre development
  • Material models for composites
  • Experimental diagnostics of composite materials and structural health monitoring
  • Multifunctional lightweight construction applications

Research projects | Lightweight construction with composite materials

Completed projects

Laboratories

  • Laboratory for plastics testing
  • Laboratory for microscopy and diagnostics
  • Laboratory for preparation and microstructure analysis
  • Laboratory for mechanical materials testing

Laboratories for testing and diagnostics of high-performance materials

Functions | Memberships

News

Portraitfoto der drei Preisträger mit Urkunde und Blumen in der Hand
VDI-Förderpreis 2025 (v.l.n.r.): Die Preisträger Jan Bertram (3. Platz), Luca David Kukuk (2. Platz), Fabian Duckhorn (1. Platz) © HTWK Leipzig
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VDI Sponsorship Award 2025 | Young HTWK engineers honoured for their theses

Prize winners 2025: M. Eng. Fabian Duckhorn (1st place), B. Eng. Luca David Kukuk (2nd place), M. Eng. Jan Bertram (3rd place)

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Nahaufnahme wie Prof. Pinninghoff der Preisträgerin die Urkunde überreicht
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KARL KOLLE Prize | Awarded for outstanding theses

During the graduation ceremony of the Faculty of Engineering on 12 April, awards were presented for Bachelor's and Master's theses

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Laborführung während des 3. Internationalen Workshops in Athen im Rahmen des Projektes Eurecomp, © NTUA/Eurecomp
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EU joint project EuReComp | Interim results at the review meeting

Athens, March 2025 - At the official review meeting, two EU representatives assessed, among other things, the project progress and the realistic…

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New project launched for the secondary utilisation of end-of-life rotor blade structures

RecyRotor project: Scanning and separation process for the reuse of wind turbine rotor blade structures is being developed

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New Saxon validation project launched to reuse old wind turbine rotor blade structures

The ValidFloatingPV project of the Faculty of Engineering is developing a large-scale demonstrator for floating solar systems (floating PV) with…

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