Boundary Conditions in Handling of Microspheres Induced by Shape Deviation Constraints

For speeding up the development of new metallic materials, the collaborative research centre SFB1232 ‘Farbige Zustände’ researches a highthroughput method for material testing. This approach aims at generating metal spheres smaller than 1 mm in diameter, and applying different thermal and mechanical treatments on them. Afterwards the samples are inspected in different processes to gain information about the material characteristics. To move the samples through this system, a handling system is needed, which can provide the spheres in different handling modes for different processes. This article describes the identification of boundary conditions for a handling system, resulting from the geometric characteristics of the microspheres.