In my life, I have been allowed to work on many different topics in very different industries. Many people may find the “constant learning curve” exhausting, but I do not. I am very grateful to have been able to get to know the particularities, ways of thinking and interesting colleagues in different industries.
My efforts were rewarded – with many different methods and positive experiences in my mind. Today, I can benefit from being able to quickly identify the essential technical problems with an outside perspective and then surprise my clients with proposals. The ideas for this often arise from a physical analogy from a completely different industry.
Here is a selection of topics I have actively participated in:
- Waste management: shredders, cyclones, gas engines
- Railway traction technology: safety and reliability
- Production of bakery products: Tonnes/day
- Cruise liner: indoor and outdoor comfort, dispersion of exhaust gases and exhaust air, vibrations
- Thin film radionuclide wear measurement technology
- Foundries: optimisation of gating and cooling systems for large castings
- Production of CFRP components in presses and in autoclaves
- Hydrostatic drive: wind turbine with variable speed at the rotor and constant speed at the synchronous generator
- Cable production: optimum plant parameters for CV lines, e.g. for high-voltage cables
- Laser measurement methods: Laser Doppler anemometer, phase Doppler anemometer
- Food processing machinery: sterilisation
- Mechanical engineering: Stiffness and durability of machine frames for CNC milling and presses
- Medicine: Radiation planning for tumour diseases
- Microsystems in silicon: Design and simulation of MEMS
- Offshore foundations: Wind turbines, transformer stations
- Offshore transport and installation of large structures: motion analyses, loads
- Optical signal transmission: simulation of wave propagation of light
- Pumped-storage hydropower plant: strength and flows
- Synchronous generators: Strength, heat generation, cooling
- Ship structures: vibrations and fatigue cracks
- Safety engineering: lightweight construction and personal protection, GRP
- Floating offshore wind turbines and transformer stations: Behaviour in wind, wave, ice, installation, transport, manufacturing
- Water meters, oil meters: improving understanding and then design, test bench technology
- Wind turbines: Gearbox development
- Wind turbines: Design of blades, bearings and frame and nacelle
- Wind turbines: simulation of wind turbine overall system behaviour (Bladed)
- Yachts: Comfort
- 2-stroke and 4-stroke marine diesel engines
- 3D printing: design and production with PLA, PET-G, ABS