Address: Pfaffenwaldring 9, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
Phone: +49 711 9340530
Web: https://www.itft.uni-stuttgart.de/de/
Contact person: Dr.-Ing. Larissa Born
Company description:
The first associations with the term “textile” are generally products such as clothing, bed linen or home textiles. But textiles have a much broader range of applications: from automotive and construction to aerospace technology. Often hidden or unrecognizable at first glance, textile structures master technical challenges with a high degree of adaptability.
Our institute concentrates on basic research in forward-looking textile topics. The core aspect of our machine, process and material developments is always the textile. Fibers, yarns and textiles are combined to create a tailor-made material or product.
The textile knowledge, the basis for our developments and research work, is passed on to students at the University of Stuttgart as part of the courses offered by the ITFT: they include, for example, functionally equipped technical textiles and smart textiles that use sensors to monitor people and the environment, and the further processing of textile materials into rigid high-performance components made of fiber-reinforced plastic.
In addition to material development and testing, our research topics also include the automation of manufacturing processes for individual fiber composite components. In this respect, the ITFT is responding to the rethinking of the design of structural lightweight components, which are only partly series products and are often individual components that have to be individually adapted to the application load case. Precise knowledge of the material characteristics and the ability to adapt the manufacturing processes are essential here.