Current projects and research topics

The Institute for Metal Forming at TU Bergakademie Freiberg is a think tank and future laboratory. In the laboratories and research facilities, scientists develop innovative techniques and processes. Their knowledge and expertise makes the Institute of Metal Forming a sought-after partner for research and cooperation projects with industry. Currently, the employees, in their respective working groups, are researching the following projects:
Light Metals Working Group:
- Substitution of rare-earth elements in high-strength and ductile magnesium sheet materials
- System-integrative multi-material lightweight construction for electromobilityt
- Saxon alliance for material- and resource-saving technologies
- Investigations and determination of characteristic values for caliber development in continuous wire rolling of magnesium alloys
- Holistic implementation of resource-efficient shaping processes
- Development of wire casting rolling technology for magnesium pre-wire profiles
- Leika: resource-efficient mixed construction methods for lightweight car bodies
- hybCrash: near-series technologies for highly stressed hybrid multilayer crash structures
- Production of magnesium wire mesh-plastic composites
- dahlia: digital technologies for hybrid lightweight structures
Steel and Other Heavy Metals Working Group:
- Low-loss Fe Si sheet for energy-efficient electrical drives
- Typification of materials in musical instrument making
- Prevention of zinc corrosion in brass musical instrument making
- Development of new high strength austenitic stainless steels for large lightweight storage applications
- Practice-oriented extension of the damage prediction for low reject production in cold forging of steels with non-metallic inclusions as damage initiators
Numerical Simulation Working Group:
- Controlled solid-liquid transition in casting rolling
- Laminated material composites made of TRIP/TWIP steels with tailored properties
- Multi-functional, coarse-grained, refractory composites and material composites for large-volume key components in high-temperature processes (Refrabund)
- Fast simulation tool for long product rolling
Hot Forming Simulation Working Group:
- MiVia Innovation of material quality control with artificial intelligence
- Accelerated nanobainitic transformation in low-alloy steels processed by incremental forging (NanoBainControl)
- Manufacturing load-customized aluminium components by local control of cooling rates as part of Tailor Quenched Forming (combined forming, quenching and hardening process)
- Development of partial press hardening utilizing advanced bainite transformation models (PressBain)