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FUNDING UNTIL THE END OF 2024

German Research Foundation (DFG) Prolongs Transregio 188

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Portrait of Professor A. Erman Tekkaya © Jan Schmitz​/​TU Dortmund
Initiator of CRC/TRR 188: Professor A. Erman Tekkaya from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at TU Dortmund University.
The German Research Foundation (DFG) has decided to prolong funding for Collaborative Research Center/Transregio (TRR) 188. In the framework of the center and together with other partners, researchers from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and the Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering are investigating “Damage Controlled Forming Processes.” About € 11.4 million have been allocated to the center for the second funding period up until the end of 2024.

The objective of Trans­re­gio 188 is to understand how damage occurs inside metal materials during the forming process and how this damage influences component characteristics. In this context, the interdisciplinary consortium of scientists from the fields of forming technology, materials sciences, materials testing, and mechanics is aiming at two paradigm shifts: On the one hand, a concentration on product performance in the forming process rather than on manufacturability. On the other hand, the actual production-induced component properties, including damage, should be taken into account when designing products and not the nominal material properties of the component.

In the long term, it should be possible to quantify, control and adjust the damage level of a component along the entire process chain. This would form the basis for a new generation of lightweight products with tailor-made and guaranteed performance.

New spokesperson

It was Professor A. Erman Tekkaya from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at TU Dortmund University who initiated CRC/TRR 188 and has so far been the spokesperson for this collaborative research project. In accordance with the order of rotation, in January 2021 the role of spokesperson will pass to Professor Gerhard Hirt at RWTH Aachen University as one of the cooperation partners in the project. The Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH (MPIE) in Düsseldorf (Professor Gerhard Dehm) and the Institute for Applied Materials – Materials and Biomechanics (IAM-WBM) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Professor Christoph Kirchlechner) are collaborating on sub-projects within CRC/TRR 188. In Dortmund, the Institute of Forming Technology and Lightweight Construction (IUL), the Institute of Mechanics (IM) and the Department of Test Engineering (WPT) at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering are contributing to CRC/TRR 188, alongside the Chair for Numerical Methods and Information Processing at the Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering.

Further information:
In­for­ma­ti­on on Collaborative Research Centers on the website of the German Research Foundation

TRR 188 website

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