NEW APPROACHES IN LIGHTWEIGHT DESIGN: V-MODEL OF LIGHTWEIGHT DESIGN BY COMPOSITES AS AN APPROACH OF INTER- AND TRANSDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH

In the field of lightweight design by composites, the V-Model forms the basis of inter- and transdisciplinary collaboration and research of 13 doctoral students from different disciplines, i. e. engineering, sciences and social sciences. The technological challenges of the research college itself and the V-Model as an approach for addressing these challenges are introduced. Within the cooperation of the young researchers, a technology demonstrator was produced. On the one hand this can be seen as demonstrator for the different technologies which are addressed by individual research and on the other hand for the interdisciplinary collaboration itself. Exemplary, this technology demonstrator is presented as one result of the research group and the challenges of the interdisciplinary collaboration while producing it are pointed out.