Author: Hinnerk Hagenah

As part of the lecture "Metal Forming", 20 students took the opportunity to visit the BMW AG stamping plant in Regensburg to deepen their knowledge of the lecture content on Juli 20th. After a general introduction to the company, the basic structure of the Regensburg plant...

Peter Hetz won third place in the ZwickRoell Science Award for his article published in 2022 entitled "Characterization of sheet metal components by using an upsetting test with miniaturized cylindircal specimen". For this price, all quality-assured publications of a ...

Dr.-Ing. Thomas Papke won second place in the doctoral theses category of the Schaeffler FAG Foundation's Innovation Awards for his dissertation entitled "Investigations on the formability of hybrid parts made of sheet metal body and additively manufactured structure". As part of the...

On July 4th, 2023, the final colloquium of the DFG research group FOR2271 "Process-oriented tolerance management with virtual validation methods" took place. The event reported on the research work within the two funding phases and the insights gained. ...

From June 19th to 22nd, 2023 the 42nd International Deep Drawing Research Group (IDDRG) Conference took place in Luleå, Sweden. In around 100 specialist lectures in the areas of fossil-free steel production, intelligent press shops, multi-material concepts, the expansion of lightweight structures and the future...

As part of the teaching evaluation of the Faculty of Engineering for the winter semester 2022/23, courses of the LFT were able to achieve first place in category VW5 (elective subjects with 5-10 returns) and in category E5 (teaching assignments, etc. with at least 5 returns).

From 12.06. until 16.06. the 51st North American Manufacturing Research Conference (NAMRC) took place at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. In more than 150 lectures and discussions, innovative approaches from various metalworking disciplines were presented. Current re...

From 20.-22. June 2023 saw the 67th Concrete Days in Ulm in the Congress Center directly on the Danube. Concrete? Yes, concrete, because there are many ways to use steel in the construction industry. One example is the addition of steel fibers, for the production of which the chair is responsible for the DFG project "Notched...

When manufacturing hybrid components, additive structures are built up on sheet metal base bodies in order to combine the advantages of additive manufacturing and those of forming technology. A challenge that comes with this is the heat that is introduced into the sheet metal during the additive process...

"Discover The Bright World of Metals" - this was the motto at the Düsseldorf Exhibition Center from 12.-16. June hosted the METEC & ESTAD 2023, which is a leading conference for metallurgy and materials technology and is one of the largest steel conferences in Europe. With over 600 presentations...