Simon Winterberg

Projects

• Lubricant Scuffing tests / Project leader / ongoing
• Ultra Silent Gears / Team member / ongoing
• Development of a displacement-insensitive bevel gearing system generated through additive manufacturing / Project leader / ongoing
• Professional and scientific expertise for the UZH in the area of the Detector for CERN’s CSM Collider / Deputy project leader / ongoing
• Lifetime prediction of POM gears / Deputy project leader / ongoing
• Industrial insect rearing as a decentralized, circular economy food waste recovery strategy / Deputy project leader / ongoing
• SABA – Landing flap system / Project leader / completed
• Automated visual inspection of a life-supporting blood pump / Project leader / completed
• Optimisation of the tooth root geometry of plastic gears / Team member / completed
• Automated Composite Compression-Zahnrad / Team member / completed
• Additive Manufactured Gears of Case-Hardened Steel / Team member / completed
• Kyburz stress test rear suspension / Project leader / completed
• Certification of grease for Flex Shaft / Project leader / completed
• SLM gears: Function- and weight-optimized gears produced using the Selective Laser Melting (SLM) process / Team member / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

• Düzel, S., Eberlein, R., Dennig, H.-J., & Winterberg, S. (2025). Bi-parametric damage model for the lifetime prediction of POM gears. Forschung Im Ingenieurwesen, 89(1), 92. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10010-025-00870-7
• Dennig, H.-J., Zumofen, L., Stierli, D., Kirchheim, A., & Winterberg, S. (2021). Increasing the safety against scuffing of additive manufactured gear wheels by internal cooling channels. Forschung Im Ingenieurwesen, 86(3), 595–604. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10010-021-00515-5

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Dennig, H.-J., Düzel, S., Eberlein, R., & Winterberg, S. (2025). Optimisation of the tooth root fillet of plastic gears [Conference paper]. International Conference on Gears 2025, 927–944. https://doi.org/10.51202/9783181024607-927
• Berger, S., Winterberg, S., Baumgartner, C., Inauen, J., Staller, J., & Schmid, D. (2024, November 14). Mycelium material substitutes conventional bicycle helmet material by adapted design for X processes. FTAL Conference 2024 – Circular Economy, Lugano, Switzerland, 14-15 November 2024.
• Dennig, H.-J., & Winterberg, S. (2019). Test stand for internally cooled metal gears [Conference poster]. VDI-Berichte, 1263–1265. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-18361

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

Kirchheim, A., Dennig, H.-J., Winterberg, S., Zumofen, L., Waldburger, M. C., & Stieri, D. (2019). Funktions-und gewichtsoptimierte Zahnräder : additiv durch selektives Laserschmelzen hergestellt. AM Network Tagung: Additive Fertigung in Forschung und Praxis, Zürich, 24. Oktober 2019.

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