This semester, interested students again took the opportunity to get to know the Institute of Manufacturing Technology better during a guided tour. In addition to demonstrations of material characterization on the Gleeble and laser beam cutting, there was information...
Last Friday, our former research assistant Manuel Jäckisch successfully completed his doctorate. The topic of his dissertation is the "Fundamental scientific investigation of the mechanisms of action in vibration-induced forming".
The Insitute of Manufacturing Technology is pleased to announce a successful journal publication in the international journal Production Engineering. The work was produced in close collaboration with the Institute of Measurement Technology and Sensors (MTS) at RPTU Kaiserslautern Landau and addresses...
Dr.-Ing. Martin Killmann, an alumnus of the LFT, received the doctoral prize for his dissertation entitled "Prestressing and Fatigue of Cold Forging Tools for Non-Circular Component Geometries" at the Faculty of Engineering's Day event. His successful introduction to this fascinating topic within the framework of...
At the IDDRG 2025 conference in Lisbon, the paper “Improving the local formability of an AA7075 aluminum alloy by laser-induced modification of the alloying concept” was recognized as one of the ten best conference papers. The expanded version has now been published in the renowned journal Adv...
Der Beitrag mit dem Titel "Influence of localized alloy composition tailoring by laser-induced element evaporation on the mechanical properties of aluminum alloy AA7075" wurde im Journal of Materials Processing Technology (JMPT) veröffentlicht. Der ganze Beitrag kann unter https://doi.org/10.1016/j...
The research project “Roll-formed closed profiles made of high-strength aluminum alloys for semi-finished products and complex component geometries (high-strength aluminum profile components)”, submitted via the European Research Association for Sheet Metal Processing e.V. (EFB), was approved for the LFT. The project...
Two research projects related to press hardening were recently approved by the German Research Foundation (DFG) for the LFT:Development of a data-driven method for the process design of thermally assisted forming processes and subsequent component evaluation for press hardeningIn-...
As part of the NUMISHEET 2025 conference organized by the University of Munich (UTG) at the Technical University of Munich, three doctoral candidates from the LFT had the opportunity to present and discuss their research results with an international audience.Adam Häckel: "Investigation of the influence of relaxation on t...
The Institute of Manufacturing Technology (LFT) and the Institute of Polymer Technology (LKT) have published an article in the Journal of Advanced Joining Processes as part of their joint research project in the TRR285 "Method development for mechanical joinability in versatile process chains".
