Author: Hinnerk Hagenah

The Bilstein Group hosted its first Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete Day in Hagen on November 13th. The renowned cold-rolled strip manufacturer primarily targeted the construction industry with its innovative STABILS steel fiber, but steel fibers and their potential as concrete reinforcement also interested us as a teaching Institute...

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...

The LFT was represented by four people (Prof. M. Merklein, A. Harms, J. Neumann, and J. Sarris) at the AJP in Coimbra, Portugal. This conference, entitled "Advanced Joining Processes," covered many topics that are the subject of current research at the institute. On the one hand, results from...

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-...

The ESAFORM benchmark 2023: interlaboratory comparison benchmark for the characterization of microstructural grain growth and dynamic recrystallization kinetics of a single-phase Ni-base superalloyThis paper presents a comprehensive benchmark study funded by ESAFORM and conducted in eight European...

Tools play a key role in cold forming as they have a direct impact on part quality and process economics. High loads due to the contact pressure of the workpiece represent a major challenge in terms of tool life. Concentrated in complex geometries...

The use of high-strength, stainless materials for the production of semi-hollow punch rivets enables an increase in the resource efficiency of the rivet manufacturing process, as the usually necessary energy-intensive process steps of heat treatment and coating of the rivet are...