Martina Zimmermann

Nov 27, 2024 | fis.tu-dresden.de | Lars Ewenz |TUD Dresden |Martin Kuczyk |Martina Zimmermann

In addition to brazing and welding processes, mechanical joining processes such as clinching are increasingly being used. Clinch joints offer an advantage over metallurgical joining processes by giving the possibility of joining different material combinations without typical drawbacks. Thereby clinching offers an enormous advantage for lightweight construction.

Jul 18, 2023 | kcl.ac.uk | Martina Zimmermann

Researchers at King’s organise a discipline- and sector-crossing workshop around the idea of lifelong ageing. Ageing is often associated with older people and with ideas of disease and decline. However, at a biological level, ageing begins at birth – ‘growing up’ is part of the same process as ‘growing old’. As our population grows older and amid a social care crisis, what might research, care and community look like if we understood ageing as a lifelong process that unites rather than divides us?