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. et al. (2025) 'Bi-parametric damage model for the lifetime prediction of POM gears', Forschung im Ingenieurwesen, 89(1), p. 92. doi: 10.1007/s10010-025-00870-7.
• Dennig, H.-J. et al. (2021) 'Increasing the safety against scuffing of additive manufactured gear wheels by internal cooling channels', Forschung im Ingenieurwesen, 86(3), pp. 595–604. doi: 10.1007/s10010-021-00515-5.

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Berger, S. et al. (2026) 'Mycelium material substitutes conventional bicycle helmet material by adapted design for X processes', in Podleisek, A. et al. (eds) Advances in circular economy: bridging research and practice. Cham: Springer, pp. 71–84. doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-21547-5_6.
• Dennig, H.-J. et al. (2025) 'Optimisation of the tooth root fillet of plastic gears', in International Conference on Gears 2025. VDI Verlag, pp. 927–944. doi: 10.51202/9783181024607-927.
• Dennig, H.-J. and Winterberg, S. (2019) 'Test stand for internally cooled metal gears', in VDI-Berichte. Düsseldorf: VDI-Verlag, pp. 1263–1265. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-18361.

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

Kirchheim, A. et al. (2019) 'Funktions-und gewichtsoptimierte Zahnräder : additiv durch selektives Laserschmelzen hergestellt', in AM Network Tagung: Additive Fertigung in Forschung und Praxis, Zürich, 24. Oktober 2019.

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