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Vita

Amos Merkel, M.Sc. studied from 2012 to 2016 Bachelor Mechanical Engineering with specialization in Design Engineering and from 2016 to 2018 Master Development and Design at RWTH Aachen University.

Since 2018, Mr. Merkel has been working as a research assistant at the Institute of Fluid Power Drives and Systems at RWTH Aachen University in the groups High-Performance Components and Digitalization and Automation. Starting from 2021, Mr. Merkel leads the group Digitalization and Automation.

Mr. Merkel‘s main focus is on hydro-mechanical control design, pump robustness and elctro-hydrostatic actuators.

In teaching, Mr. Merkel is responsible for the subject of servo hydraulics.

Public research projects of Mr. Merkel:

• HMGSB – hydro-mechanic closed-loop brake torque control for railway vehicles
• MODULAR – Smart actuator concepts for electromechanical and electrohydraulic drives

 

Publications

Modellversuch für die experimentelle Untersuchung des Verschleißverhaltens des Gleitschuh-Schrägscheibe Kontakts Journal Article (2023)	Merkel, Philip Amos (Corresponding author) Schlegel, Felix Schmitz, Katharina
Degradation Identification of an EHA Piston Pump by Analysis of Load-Holding States Contribution to a conference proceedings (2022)	Duensing, Yannick (Corresponding author) Merkel, Philip Amos Schmitz, Katharina
Modellversuch für die experimentelle Untersuchung des Verschleißverhaltens des Gleitschuh-Schrägscheibe Kontakts Contribution to a book, Contribution to a conference proceedings (2022)	Merkel, Philip Amos (Corresponding author) Schlegel, Felix Schmitz, Katharina
Identification of wear progression due to variating operation modes of small high dynamic piston pumps used in frontline flight control application Contribution to a conference proceedings (2022)	Merkel, Philip Amos (Corresponding author) Duensing, Yannick Schmitz, Katharina
Electro-hydrostatic actuators in primary flight control - lifetime and reliability Contribution to a conference proceedings (2021)	Merkel, Philip Amos Duensing, Yannick Schmitz, Katharina
HYDRO-MECHANICAL CLOSED-LOOP BRAKING TORQUE CONTROL - EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION AND INFLUENCE ANALYSIS Contribution to a conference proceedings (2021)	Merkel, Philip Amos (Corresponding author) Murrenhoff, Hubertus Reinertz, Olivier Schmitz, Katharina
Hydro-Mechanical Closed-Loop Brake Torque Control for Railway Disc Brakes : Contribution to the topic novel vehicles and components Contribution to a conference proceedings (2020)	Merkel, Philip Amos (Corresponding author) Murrenhoff, Hubertus Reinertz, Olivier Schmitz, Katharina
Entwicklung einer passiven Schienenfahrzeugbremse mit hydraulisch-mechanisch geregeltem Bremsmoment Master Thesis (2018)	Merkel, Philip Amos (Corresponding author)
Development of a Prototype Valve for a Hydro-mechanical Braking-torque Control used on Railway Disc Brakes Contribution to a book, Contribution to a conference proceedings (2018)	Bordovsky, Patrik (Corresponding author) Merkel, Philip Amos Murrenhoff, Hubertus Reinertz, Olivier Schmitz, Katharina