Steinbeis Innovation Center Materials, Surfaces and Joining Technology

• Development and production of coatings subject to corrosive or tribological stresses
• Tribological assessments
• SEM, EDX, and N-O-H-C analysis
• Hybrid welding technologies
• Arc and laser spot welding technology for joint and coating production
• Metal powder production
• Development of welding consumables for production and repair welding
• Development of new functional materials
• Diffusion welding

Material development and adaptation

• Corrosion and wear protection technologies
• Connection technologies
• Welding, soldering, thermal spraying
• Special alloys
• Local adjustment of surface properties using buildup welding and thermal spraying
• Hybrid welding technologies

• Development of welding consumables for processing ultra-high-strength fine-grained structural steels
• Production of mixed compounds involving Al-steel; Mg-steel
• Soldering of zinc-coated components using materials of the same type
• Laser powder hot wire buildup welding
• Coating using non-metallic hard materials
• Development of welding consumables for production and repair welding
• Corrosion-resistant coating of Mg base materials
• Development of special plasma welding and cutting torches
• Burner-integrated draft technology

Professor Dr.-Ing. Gunnar Bürkner

Steinbeis Transfer Magazine

• Seeking Points of Contact – Diffusion Welding of Lithium-Ion Batteries (Transfer 2/2023)
  Steinbeis research into new types of contacts on solid-state batteries