News

10/01/2022

Development of a continuous process for the intrinsic production of plastic-metal composite structures

Technology for the continuous production of hybrid profiles made of aluminum and polymer in a single process step.

09/13/2022

"Impulses and Innovations in Metal Forming" - Celebrations on the occasion of the 50th IUL Institute anniversary

Celebrating 50 Years of Forming Technology in Dortmund: On September 8 and 9, 2022, the anniversary celebration of the Institute of Forming Technology…

09/06/2022

Institute excursion of the IUL team

The IUL team enjoyed a bicycle tour on August 17, 2022, which was the institute’s first excursion since the beginning of the Corona pandemic. The…

09/01/2022

Flexible tool design with shear thickening fluids in impulse forming processes

Flexible vaporizing foil actuator forming process by replacing rigid steel dies with additively manufactured shells supported by shear-thickening…

09/01/2022

Solid-state welding of oxide-containing aluminium surfaces in forming technology

Analysis of the influence of different hot extrusion conditions on the solid-state welding of oxide surfaces using an automated bond-strength testing…

08/18/2022

BBC documentary filming at the IUL

The further development of the process of chip extrusion for direct recycling of aluminum for the production of sheets and components such as ...

07/01/2022

IUL wins outstanding paper in manufacturing processes at NAMRC 2022

The paper "A control strategy for incremental profile forming" of authors R. Nakahata (The Ohio State University, OSU), S. Seetharaman (OSU), K.…

06/29/2022

New DFG project on adiabatic blanking at the IUL

Within the framework of a new DFG project "Setting the properties of non-rotationally symmetric sheet components by high-speed blanking" successfully…

05/25/2022

Prof. Tekkaya receives SME Gold Medal

For more than six decades, the nonprofit organization SME has awarded worldwide leading figures from industry and business whose work has led to…