Manfred Geiger

TL;DR: In this article, the current and future contributions of forming technology to the manufacture of lightweight components and structures have been discussed, as well as the issues that arise in the production of load adapted designs and using high strength materials.

TL;DR: In this paper, an overview of research activities in the field of forming operations at elevated temperatures is presented, where the use of elevated temperatures as a process parameter in forming operations represents a potential solution approach.

TL;DR: In this paper, a two-layer model for laser bending is proposed, which is capable of describing the process in spite of many restrictions which have to be made, such as the coefficient of thermal expansion.

TL;DR: A compendium of metal forming keynotes can be found in this paper, where the authors of each keynote have written an update with new information that has developed since the writing of the keynote.

TL;DR: In this paper, an experimental setup is introduced, which enables the determination of the material's flow behaviour according to the hot stamping time-temperature-characteristics. And the results of investigations on the thermo-mechanical flow properties of the quenchenable, ultra high strength steel 22MnB5 in dependency of the temperature, the strain and the cooling rate etc.