Mechanical test procedures for the evaluation of hydrogen-assisted damage in high-strength steel

Benjamin Kröger studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences Ravensburg-Weingarten, specializing in vehicle mechatronics. Thereafter, he received his Master's degree in Product Development. He has been involved with the Steinbeis Network since 2005 and was responsible for industrial and scientific projects until the end of 2014. In January 2015, the company was transformed into a legally independent company under the management of Benjamin Kröger and Prof. Dr. R. Holbein. His areas of expertise for the aerospace, automotive and other industries include materials, surface engineering, corrosion protection, electrochemistry and tribology and wear.

Hannah Hetzner studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences Ravensburg-Weingarten specializing in production technology. She is currently working as an Application Engineer at 3D-Laserdruck GbR, a service company in the field of additive manufacturing via selective laser melting of metallic materials. Within her professional activity she is responsible for the entire process chain from feasibility analyses and technical consultation to constructive optimization as well as program generation and the production of prototypes and small batches.

Dr. Stefan Klose, after graduating from the Technical University of Munich (Dipl.-Phys.) and receiving his Dr.-Ing. in Material Science at the Technical University Berlin in 1995, held various positions at Audi AG in Ingolstadt from 1996 to 2002 in technical development, production and planning. In addition to materials and surface technology, he was also actively involved in plant engineering and production planning.

At the end of 2002, he accepted a position at Daimler in the development of passenger cars, focusing on corrosion protection, materials and surface technology. From 2012 until 2017 he worked on advanced materials and technologies in predevelopment, with an emphasis on lightweight construction with ultra-high-strength steels, aluminum and magnesium materials for car body applications in passenger cars and commercial vehicles. Currently Dr. Klose is involved with digital technologies and predevelopment with regard to vehicle safety, durability, corrosion protection for passenger cars as Senior Engineer.

Thomas Mehner studied physics at the Chemnitz University of Technology. As a scientific staff member, he obtained his PhD degree in the Materials and Surface Engineering Group at the Department of Mechanical Engineering. His main fields of research include X-ray diffraction as well as the relationships between microstructure and corrosion. At present, he is the deputy group leader of the Chemical and Galvanic Surface Technology Group.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Reinhold Holbein founded the “Steinbeis Transfer Center for Corrosion and Corrosion Protection” in 1996 and has successfully maintained it since 2014 as a new founded and legally independent company called “Steinbeis Transfer Center for Materials, Corrosion and Corrosion Protection”. He has worked at Dornier Luftfahrt GmbH in the area of materials, surface technology and corrosion protection. As a senior engineer for surface technology, he was responsible for aircrafts such as the DO 228 and DO 328, among others. From 1994 to 2002, he taught at the Albstadt University of Applied Sciences in the field of mechanicalengineering, surface engineering, corrosion, tribology and aluminum alloys. In 2002, he accepted a position at the University of Ravensburg-Weingarten and until 2015 taught mechanical engineering, surface engineering and applied materials technology in the field of mechanical engineering.

Prof. Dr. Thomas Lampke, after studying Mechanical Engineering in Bremen and Materials Science in Chemnitz, became a research assistant at the Department of Composite Materials at Chemnitz University of Technology (CUT). Following his PhD on natural-fiber reinforced polymers, he habilitated in surface engineering. In 2006, he did post-doc research at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Since 2008, he is a Full Professor of Materials and Surface Engineering at CUT. His area of concentration is chemical and electrochemical deposition, anodizing, thermal spraying, materials modelling and simulation, corrosion and wear protection, as well as interface engineering.