Field of Work
For several decades, the expertise of the Institute of Machine Components has been focused on the sealing of rotating and linearly moving components, dynamically highly stressed surface sealing joints and the development of custom solutions, damage analysis and investigation of sealing systems.
The main areas of research and work are:
- Development of sealing concepts
- Damage analyses and expert assessments
- Surface examinations
- Experimental test bench investigations
- Test bench planning
- Observation of sealing systems by means of simulation
- Seminars on sealing technology
The IMA’s clients include well-known companies both in Germany and abroad: the institute investigates failed sealing systems and tracks the cause in the event of leaks. The institute’s extensive facilities including measuring technology, simulation tools and test benches; with its vast experience in processing such damage events, it is able to provide rapid assistance.
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A technical device cannot do without seals. Often only costing a few cents but vital to smooth functioning, it is these machine components that are the focus of the work done by Prof. Werner Haas, born in Heubach in 1952. He completed his degree in mechanical engineering in 1980, obtaining his doctorate in 1987. From 1986 to 1991, Haas was the deputy director and from 1995 director of the sealing technology department at the Institute of Machine Components (IMA) of the University of Stuttgart. In 1997 he habilitated with a dissertation on the subject of “Sealing technology in mechanical engineering”. He has been an extraordinary professor at the University of Stuttgart since 2004. In 1987 he received the Richard Klinger Research Award.