Programme/Keynotes

Keynote Speakers

Dorel Banabic, Technical University of Cluj Napoca, Romania: Advances in assessing of sheet metal formability (in honor of Prof. Marciniak’s 100-year anniversary)
Bart Carleer, Autoform, Germany: Simulation Efficiency along the stamping process chain
James Dykeman, Honda R&D Americas, USA: Evolving Test Methods for Sheet Material Fracture Characterization and Prediction
Pavel Hora, ETH Zurich, Switzerland: Advanced failure prediction methods for combined detection of necking and cracking phenomena in complex sheet metal forming processes
Mathias Liewald, Universität Stuttgart, Germany: Adaptive control strategies for deep drawing high performance sheet materials
Marion Merklein, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany: Hot forming of steel and aluminum sheet metals – from fundamentals to industrial applications
Tim Skszek, Magna International, Corporate R&D, USA: Focus on the Future, A synthesis of design, lightweight materials and forming processes
Thomas Stoughton, GM R&D Center, USA: Novel Use of DIC Technology to Improve Characterization of Metal Deformation
Michael Worswick, University of Waterloo, Canada: Advancing magnesium alloy sheet from laboratory characterization and simulation to full-scale auto parts