Schultz-Grunow was highly involved in the development of shock wave tubes and the pertinent short time measurement techniques. From 1975 to 1995 Gerhard Adomeit was the director of the Institute of General Mechanics. His main research topics were mainly in the field of gas dynamics, especially combustion processes. Since August 1st 1995, Dieter Weichert leads the institute. He shifted the fields of research to structural and solid mechanics.
Main topics are nonlinear behaviour of materials and damage caused by inelastic effects.
The change to the faculty for mechanical engineering took place at the 01.01.1989. Today there are approx. Moreover, there are approx. 35 student assistants employed.