Head of Additive Manufacturing - Metals Group
Materials and Processes Department
E-Mail: r.bernhard@lzh.dePhone: +49 511 2788-369
Short-Bio
Study of mechanical engineering at the Technischen Universität Clausthal, graduated as Master of Science in 2018.
Since October 2018, Robert Bernhard was working at the Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. as a scientific employee.
Since 2021, he has been heading the Additive Manufacturing - Metals Group in the Materials and Processes Department.
Main Research Areas
- Process development laser deposition welding with metal powder (DED-LB/M)
- Process development powder bed methods (PBF-LB/M)
- Production of multi-material joints and processing of special materials (pseudo-alloys, copper-based, titanium, and magnesium materials)
- Process monitoring and control for quality assurance in additive laser processes
- Implementation of machine learning (ML) and image recognition for process control
- Development of customized laser processes and system technology
LZH publications
Journal articles (reviewed) (3)
Entwicklung einer intelligenten Prozessüberwachung und Regelung zum Laserauftragschweißen von Multimaterial-Verbindungen
Tagungsband 4. Symposium Materialtechnik
2021
Defect detection in additive manufacturing via a toolpath overlaid melt-pool-temperature tomography
J. Laser Appl.
32
022055
2020
Journal articles (non-reviewed) (2)
Additive manufacturing of coppermolybdenum pseudoalloys
SPIE Proceedings Vol. 11349: 3D Printed Optics and Additive Photonic Manufacturing
113490C
2020
Conference papers (6)
ML-Schmelzbadidentifikation kombiniert mit intelligenter Regelung für Laser Metal Deposition in der Additiven Fertigung
Laser in der Elektronikproduktion und Feinwerktechnik (LEF)
15. Februar
online
2022
Entwicklung einer intelligenten Prozessüberwachung und Regelung zum Laserauftragschweißen von Multimaterial-Verbindungen
Niedersächsisches Symposium Materialtechnik
25.-26. Februar
online
2021
Additive manufacturing of LMD nozzles for multi-material processing
11th CIRP Conference on Photonic Technologies (LANE)
07.-10. September
online
2020
3D-printed, low-cost, lightweight optomechanics for a compact, low-power solid state amplifier system
SPIE Photonics West: LASE
01.-06. Februar
San Francisco
2020
Koaxiales Laser-Pulver-Auftragschweißen mit zentraler Schweißgutzufuhr über ein Kapillarröhrchen zur Steigerung der Pulverausnutzung
Konstruktion für die Additive Fertigung
29. September
online
2020
Process development for additive multi-material components
Lasers in Manufacturing (LiM)
24.-27. Juni
München
2019
Book chapters (3)
Koaxiales Laser-Pulver-Auftragschweißen mit zentraler Schweißgutzufuhr über ein Kapillarröhrchen zur Steigerung der Pulverausnutzung
In:
Konstruktion für die Additive Fertigung 2020
Springer Vieweg
Berlin, Heidelberg
225-243
2021