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StaF "INTENS" - Integration of electrical sensors in wood and fiber composite components

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Sensors play a major role in many areas of life. For example, many sensors are used especially in the area of safety for room monitoring and in industrial use for production and function monitoring. In order to be able to react quickly and flexibly to the constantly changing requirements of production processes, safety requirements and product specifications, it is therefore important to integrate sensors into a wide variety of components and materials with as little work and as little cost as possible. This type of function integration should help to reduce production costs and save resources. The aim must be not only to ensure fast and cost-effective integration of the sensors, but also to investigate materials or material composites that are extremely durable on the one hand, but also recyclable on the other, in order to ensure sustainable recycling of the materials at the end of the components' service life. Therefore, innovative materials are to be investigated in the INTENS project as well as processing technologies for component-specific incorporation into these materials are to be developed. Subsequently, a suitable control of the sensors is to be developed and tested. These function-integrated components, such as RFID, can be used to monitor components requiring monitoring, such as glulam trusses in wooden bridges. Piezoelectric sensors can be used to detect stresses in wooden components such as wooden towers for wind turbines or to determine load distributions in ships and monitor dynamic and fatigue behavior. For this purpose, preliminary computational considerations have already been made in other work.
This approach makes an important contribution to the sustainable energy- and cost-efficient use of resources and to the functional integration of sensors in lightweight materials.


Research project partners

INTENS is carried out by the Three Partners and

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Fraunhofer Institute for applied polymer research (coordinator)
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Polymeric Materials and Composites PYCO
Faculty for Functional Polymer Systems (Dept. Sensors and Actuators)


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Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development

Professorship Chemistry and Physics of Wood and Chemical Process Engineering


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Wildau Technical University of Applied Sciences

Professorship Fiber Composite Material Technologies


Funding

Richtlinie des Ministeriums für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur (MWFK) zur Förderung der „Stärkung der technologischen und anwendungsnahen Forschung an Wissenschaftseinrichtungen im Land Brandenburg“ (StaF-Richtlinie)

Funding code / Project number: 85038078

Project duration: 01.03.2020- 28.02.2022


Head of project and contact person

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alexander Pfriem (Alexander.Pfriem@hnee.de)

Moritz Sanne M.Sc. (Moritz.Sanne@hnee.de)