Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forschung E.v.

Thomas Keicher

Peter Elsner

Peter Eyerer

Lars Ziegler

Helfried Urban

Andreas Happ

Wolfgang Merz

Günter Helferich

Volker Komanschek

Bernd Bader

Christian Anselment

In a method for applying a surface structure to a solid body, a structured surface is placed directly or indirectly onto the surface of the solid body and the structure of this structured surface is reproduced in the surface of the solid body, in that an explosive structured layer is arranged on the surface of the solid body and the structure of the explosive structured layer is explosively disseminated into the surface of the solid body. According to the invention, the surface of the solid body is provided with a surface pre-structure before the actual dissemination, at least in regions, wherein the structure of the explosive structured layer is disseminated on at least one partial region of the surface pre-structure so that the surface structure produced results from overlapping of the surface pre-structure with the explosively disseminated structure.

Method for applying a surface structure to a solid body and solid body provided with such a surface structure

The present invention relates to a method for surface structuring of workpieces, in particular molds for plastics processing, erosion electrodes or the like, in which a structured surface is applied to an unstructured workpiece surface in order to map the structure into the workpiece surface. In order to provide a method which can be carried out more quickly, and which involves no environmentally hazardous process steps, it is proposed that a structure layer which has the structured surface is arranged between an explosive layer and the workpiece surface, and the structure is forced into the workpiece surface by detonating the explosive layer or a surface-structured explosive layer is arranged on a workpiece surface, and the structure is embossed onto the workpiece by detonating the explosive layer. The invention furthermore relates to a workpiece produced using this method, such a an injection-molding mold, a blowing mold, a compression mold, a foaming mold and a pressure-casting mold, erosion electrode or the like, in which the structure is forced into the workpiece surface by means of an explosive layer.

Method for surface structuring, and a surface-structured workpiece

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Thomas Keicher