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New work environments such as coworking offices have been identified by the German Furniture Industry Association as the "New Work" megatrend. In such office communities, mostly freelancers, creative professionals or small startups work together or alone on their projects. In coworking spaces, they share the facilities and infrastructure for a limited period of time. Initial results of the 2017 Global Coworking Survey showed that this form of work will continue to grow strongly in the future.


However, the special features of flexible working environments require the development of highly mobile and particularly broadband sound-absorbing furnishing elements.


In the BioSoftAbsorber cooperation project, sound-absorbing mobile room dividers with dimpled honeycomb and membrane absorbers are therefore to be developed, which are characterized by the following properties:


  • Particularly broadband sound absorption capacity
  • Used materials should be easy to recycle and harmless to health
  • Components to be developed must be able to be integrated into the existing furniture construction system of System 180 GmbH
  • Machinability on existing machine tools must be given


To achieve this, the research team is using dimpled honeycombs at the core of the absorber system and combining them with flexible surfaces. Compared to conventional honeycomb cores made of paper or plastic, the dimpled honeycombs to be developed by InnoMat GmbH have the advantage that they can be individually adapted to the required properties by means of their shaping.


The project focuses, on the one hand, on the development of the materials required for the individual components with reproducible material properties and, on the other hand, on matching the manufacturing processes required for production to the properties of the product.



Partners of the research project

System 180 GmbH - Process development and implementation, material testing and evaluation subproject


InnoMat


InnoMat GmbH - Subproject Core material development



Funding

Central Innovation Programme for small and medium-sized enterprises (ZIM) of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi)

Funding code: ZF4092208SL7

Project duration: 01.12.2017 bis 29.02.2020

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Head of project

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alexander Pfriem (Alexander.Pfriem@hnee.de)

Contact person

Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Fabian Wulf