Lehrstuhl für Fertigungstechnologie, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg



Bulk Metal Forming



Research on cold and warm forming processes:

  • Process simulation and development
  • Basic investigations on tool life
  • Forming of innovative semi-finished parts and materials
  • Process layout for defined workpiece characteristics


Cold forging: inner race




Projects


Participants

Head of Research Group

Members


Publications

    2013

    • Schneider, T.; Merklein, M.:
      Manufacturing of geared sheet metal components by a single-stage Sheet-bulk metal forming process.
      In: Proc. of COMA 13, (2013), Stellenbosch, South Africa: ISBN Nr: 978-0-7972-1405-7, pp. 177-182

    • Opel, S.; Schneider, T.; Merklein, M.:
      Manufacturing of geared sheet metal components using flexible rolled tailored blanks.
      In: De Sousa, R. A.; Valente, R. (Edt.): Key Engineering Materials , 554-557(2013), Zürich-Durnten: Trans Tech Publications, pp. 1459-1470

    • Andreas, K.; Noneder, J.; Engel, U.; Merklein, M.:
      Application of cemented carbide based forming tools in cold forging.
      In: Bouzakis, K.-D.; Bobzin, K.; Denkena, B.; Merklein, M. (Edt.): Proc. 11th International Conference THE "A" Coatings in Manufacturing Engineering, (2013), Aachen, accepted

    • Reiß, A.; Engel, U.; Merklein, M.:
      Investigation on the influence of manufacturing parameters on the fatigue strength of components.
      In: De Sousa, R. A.; Valente, R. (Edt.): Key Engineering Materials, (2013), Zürich-Durnten: Trans Tech Publications, pp. 280-286

    • Plettke, R.; Opel, S.:
      Investigations on orbital forming of sheet metals to manufacture tailored blanks with a defined sheet thickness variation.
      In: Advanced Materials Research, (2013), Zurich, Switzerland: Trans Tech Publications, submitted

    • Andreas, K.; Merklein, M.; Engel, U.:
      Fatigue Behavior of Cemented Carbide Based Forming Tools.
      In: Proceedings of the 18th Plansee Seminar, (2013), Reutte, accepted

    2012

    • Hetzner, H.; Koch, J.; Tremmel, S.; Wartack, S.; Merklein, M.:
      Improved Sheet Bulk Metal Forming Processes by Local Adjustment of Tribological Properties.
      In: K. Ehmann (Edt.): Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, 133(2012)6, ASME, in print

    • Andreas, K.; Engel, U.; Merklein, M.:
      Influence of Grinding on the Surface Properties of Cemented Carbides.
      In: Key Engineering Materials, 504-506(2012), Durnten-Zurich: Trans Tech Publications, pp. 1353-1358

    • Weckenmann, A.; Reithmeier, E.; Merklein, M.; Behrens, B.-A.; Wartzack, S.; Kästner, M.; Akkasoglu, G.; Ohrt, C.; Schneider, T.; Salfeld, V.; Breitsprecher, T.; Plugge, B.:
      Methodengestützte Referenzvorgehensweise für neue Umformverfahren.
      In: Zeitschrift für wirtschaftlichen Fabrikbetrieb, 01-02(2012), pp. 43-47

    • Merklein, M.; Plettke, R.; Schneider, T.; Opel, S.; Vipavc, D.:
      Manufacturing of sheet metal components with variants using process adapted semi-finished products .
      In: Key Engineering Materials, 504-506(2012), Schweiz: Trans Tech Publications, pp. 1023-1028

    • Vierzigmann, H.; Koch, J.; Merklein, M.; Engel, U.:
      Material Flow in Sheet-Bulk Metal Forming.
      In: Key Engineering Materials , 504-506 (2012), Durnten-Zurich: Trans Tech Publications, pp. 1035-1040

    • Merklein, M.; Plettke, R.; Opel, S.:
      Orbital forming of tailored blanks from sheet metal.
      In: Annals of the CIRP, 1(2012)61, Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 263-266

    • Merklein, M.; Opel, S.; Schneider, T.; Koch, J.:
      Überblick der Blechmassivumformung.
      In: Umformtechnik, 1(2012)3, Bamberg: Meisenbach, pp. 42-43

    • Merklein, M.; Stellin, T.; Engel, U.:
      Experimental Study of a Full Forward Extrusion Process from Metal Strip.
      In: Key Engineering Materials, 504-506(2012), Switzerland: Trans Tech Publications, pp. 587-592

    • Merklein, M.; Engel, U.; Noneder, J.; Reiß, A.:
      FE-basierte Prozess- und Werkzeugauslegung zur Herstellung von Hochleistungsbauteilen mit dem Ziel einer gezielten Einstellung von Bauteileigenschaften.
      In: Schafstall, H.; Wohlmuth, M.; simufact engineering GmbH (Edt.): Tagungsband 13. RoundTable - Simulation in der Umformtechnik, (2012), Bamberg: Meisenbach Verlag , pp. 291-302

    • Noneder, J.; Merklein, M.:
      Manufacturing of Complex High Strength Components out of High Nitrogen Steels at an Industrial Level.
      In: Yuan, S.J.; Vollertsen, F.; Wang, Z.R.; Dean, T.A. (Edt.): Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on New Forming Technology 2012, (2012), Harbin, China, pp. 110-115

    • Andreas, K.; Merklein, M.; Engel, U.:
      Werkzeugherstellung in der Kaltmassivumformung - Einfluss der Werkzeugoberfläche auf die tribologischen Bedingungen.
      In: wt Werkstattstechnik online, 10(2012), Düsseldorf: Springer Verlag, pp. 672-677

    • Stellin, T.; Merklein, M.; Engel, U.:
      Experimental and Numerical Investigation on a Full Forward Extrusion Process from Metal Strip.
      In: Humbert Noll, Nadja Adamovic and Stefan Dimov (Edt.): Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Multi-Material Micro Manufacture, (2012), Singapore: Research Publishing, pp. 163 - 166

    • Kroiß, T.; Engel, U.:
      Optimization of tool and process design for the cold forging of net-shape parts by simulation.
      In: Dekena, B.; Hollmann, F. (Edt.): Process Machine Interactions, (2012), Heidelberg, New York, London: Springer, pp. 419-438

    • Andreas, K.; Merklein, M.; Engel, U.:
      Influence of Combined Hard and Fine Machining on the Surface Properties of Cemented Carbides.
      In: Tribology in industry, 34(2012)3, Kragujevac, Serbia: Faculty of Engineering, University of Kragujevac, Serbia, pp. 119-127

    • Noneder, J.; Merklein, M.:
      Manufacturing of complex high strength components out of high nitrogen steels at industrial level.
      In: Yi Kang (Edt.): Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China, 2012(2012)22, Changsha, China: China Association for Science and Technology, pp. 512-513

    • Noneder, J.; Merklein, M.; Engel, U.; Frank, M.; Frank, J.; Ritzenhoff, R.; Egerer, E.:
      Hochleistungsbauteile durch Kaltmassivumformung hochfester, druckaufgestickter Stähle.
      In: UTF-Science, (2012)III, Bamberg: Meisenbach Verlag, published

    2011

    • Merklein, M.; Tekkaya, A.E.; Brosius, A.; Opel, S.; Kwiatkowski, L.; Plugge, B.; Schunck, S.:
      Machines and Tools for Sheet-Bulk Metal Forming.
      In: Key Engineering Materials, 473(2011), Schweiz: Trans Tech Publications, pp. 91-98

    • Merklein, M.; Koch, J.; Opel, S.; Schneider, T.:
      Fundamental investigations on the material flow at combined sheet and bulk metal forming processes.
      In: Annals of the CIRP, 1(2011)60, Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 283-286

    • Schneider, T.; Merklein, M.:
      Sheet-Bulk Metal Forming of Preformed Sheet Metal Parts.
      In: Key Engineering Materials (Edt.): Proceedings SheMet 2011, 473(2011), Schweiz: Trans Tech Publications, pp. 83-90

    • Merklein, M.; Stellin, T.; Engel, U.:
      Simulation of a Full Forward Extrusion Process from Metal Strip.
      In: Menary, G. (Edt.): The 14th International ESAFORM Conference on Material Forming, 1353(2011), AIP Conference Proceedings, pp. 493-498

    • Tofall, M.; Merklein, M.; Plettke, R.:
      Application of the Finite element methods on the staking process of staking fasteners .
      In: Key Engineering Materials, (2011), Schweiz: Trans Tech Publications, pp. 273-280

    • Tofall, M.; Merklein, M.; Plettke, R.:
      Numerical simulation of the staking process of clinching fasteners.
      In: Wieland, H. (Edt.): Proceedings SCT2011, (2011), Düsseldorf: Verlag Stahleisen GmbH, pp. 646-655

    • Merklein, M.; Ndzomssi Zébazé, F.; Engel, U.:
      Investigation of the Influence of Tool Geometry on Effective Strain Distribution in Full Forward Extrusion.
      In: Menary, G. (Edt.): The 14th International ESAFORM Conference on Material Forming, 1353(2011), AIP Conference Proceedings, pp. 419-424

    • Merklein, M.; Schneider, T.:
      Functional Integration of Sheet Metal Parts by Deep Drawing.
      In: Hirt, Tekkaya (Edt.): steel research international - special edition: 10th International Conference on Technology in Plasticity, (2011), Düsseldorf: Verlag Stahleisen GmbH, pp. 1036-1041

    • Merklein, M.; Tekkaya, A.E.; Brosius, A.; Opel, S.; Koch, J.:
      Overview on sheet-bulk metal forming processes.
      In: G. Hirt, A.E. Tekkaya (Edt.): Proceedings ICTP 2011, 10(2011), Aachen, pp. 1109-1114

    • Kroiß, T.:
      Process Modeling in Cold Forging Considering Process Machine Interactions and Scatter of Influencing Factors.
      In: Hora, P. (Edt.): Proc. 4th Form. Technol. Forum, (2011), Zürich: Institute of Virtual Manufacturing, ETH Zurich, ISBN: 978-3-909386-48-2, pp. 129-134

    • Noneder, J.; Merklein, M.; Engel, U.:
      On the evaluation of strength of cold forged components made of high nitrogen steel.
      In: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Steels in Cars and Trucks, (2011), Düsseldorf: Verlag Stahleisen GmbH, pp. 58-65

    • Noneder, J.; Engel, U.; Merklein, M.:
      Tool design for cold forging of high nitrogen steels.
      In: Liewald, M. (Edt.): Proceedings of the 12th International Cold Forging Congress, (2011), Stuttgart: Institute for Metal Forming Technology, pp. 9-13

    • Andreas, K.; Merklein, M.; Engel, U.:
      Influence of combined hard and fine machining on the surface properties of cemented carbides.
      In: Bouzakis, K.-D.; Bobzin, K.; Denkena, B.; Merklein, M. (Edt.): Proc. 9th International Conference THE "A" Coatings in Manufacturing Engineering, (2011), Thessaloniki, pp. 113-122

    • Schaper, M.; Lizunkova, Y.; Vucetic, M.; Hetzner, H.; Schneider, T.; Plugge, B.; Koch, J.; Opel, S.:
      Sheet-bulk metal forming a new process for the production of sheet metal parts with functional components.
      In: Metallurgical and Mining Industry, 3(2011)7, pp. 53-58

    • Merklein, M.; Andreas, K.; Engel, U.:
      Influence of machining process on residual stresses in the surface of cemented carbides.
      In: Procedia Engineering, 19(2011), Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 252-257

    • Biermann, D.; Merklein, M.; Engel, U.; Tillmann, W. ; Surmann, T. ; Hense, R.; Herper, J. ; Koch, J.; Krebs, E. ; Vierzigmann, H.:
      Umformwerkzeuge in der Blechmassivumformung.
      In: Merklein, M.; Bach, Fr.-W.; Tekkaya, A. E. (Edt.): 1. Workshop Blechmassivumformung, (2011), Bamberg: Meisenbach, pp. 119-138

    2010

    • Merklein, M.; Koch, J.; Schneider, T.; Opel, S.; Vierzigmann, H.:
      Manufacturing of Complex Functional Components with Variants by Using a new Metal Forming Process – Sheet-Bulk Metal Forming.
      In: University of Brescia (Edt.): International Journal of Material Forming, 3 (2010), Paris: Springer, pp. 347-350

    • Eichenhüller, B.; Engel, U.; Geiger, M.:
      Microforming and investigation of parameter interactions.
      In: Production Engineering, 4(2010)2-3, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 135-140

    • Kroiß, T.; Engel, U.; Merklein, M.:
      Process Modeling In Cold Forging Considering The Process-Tool-Machine Interactions.
      In: Barlat, F.; Moon, Y. H.; Lee, M.-G. (Edt.): Proc. of the 10th Int. Conf. on Numerical Methods in Industrial Forming Processes; AIP Conference Proceedings 1252, (2010), Melville: American Institute of Physics, pp. 312-319

    • Kroiß, T.; Engel, U.; Merklein, M.:
      Modeling of the Behavior of a Cold Forging Process Considering the Deflection of Tooling System and Press.
      In: Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. on Process Machine Interactions (PMI), (2010), ISBN: 978-0-9866331-0-2, published on CD

    • Kroiß, T.; Engel, U.; Merklein, M.:
      Simulation-Based Determination of Deflection Characteristic of Tooling System and its Modeling in FE Simulation of Cold Forging Process.
      In: K. Mori et al. (Edt.): steel research international (special edition Metal Forming 2010), 81(2010)9, Weinheim: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, pp. 318-321

    • Merklein, M.; Opel, S.; Schneider, T.:
      Herstellung funktionaler Blechkomponenten.
      In: wt Werkstattstechnik online, 11/12(2010), Düsseldorf: Springer, pp. 910-915

    • Groenbaek, J.; Engel, U.; Hinsel, C.; Kroiß, T.; Meidert, M.; Neher, R.; Räuchle, F.; Schrader, T.:
      Tooling Solutions for Challenges in Cold Forging.
      In: Groche, P. (Edt.): 43rd ICFG Plenary Meeting 2010, (2010), Darmstadt: Institut für Fertigungsforschung e. V., pp. 112-130

    • Noneder, J.; Merklein, M.; Engel, U.:
      Vergleich verschiedener Verfahren zur Fließkurvenaufnahme im Hinblick auf die Prozess- und Werkzeugauslegung bei der Kaltmassivumformung druckaufgestickter Stähle.
      In: R. Kawalla (Edt.): Proceedings AutoMetFORM / SFU 2010, (2010), Freiberg, pp. 333-345

    • Merklein, M.; Noneder, J.; Engel, U.:
      Fließkurvenermittlung für die Kaltmassivumformung druckaufgestickter Stähle.
      In: Pohl, M. (Edt.): Proceedings Tagung Werkstoffprüfung, (2010), Düsseldorf: Stahleisen GmbH, pp. 353-358

    • Merklein, M.; Opel, S.:
      Investigation of Tailored Blank Production by the Process Class Sheet-Bulk Metal Forming.
      In: Francisco Chinesta, Yvan Chastel, Mohamed El Mansori (Edt.): International Conference on Advances in Materials and Processing Technologies (AMPT2010), 1315(2010), Melville, USA: AIP Conference Proceedings, pp. 395-400

    • Merklein, M.; Koch, J.; Schneider, T.; Opel, S.; Vierzigmann, H.:
      Manufacturing of Complex Functional Components with Variants by Using a new Metal Forming Process – Sheet-Bulk Metal Forming.
      In: University of Brescia (Edt.): Proceedings of the 13th ESAFORM Conference, (2010), Brescia, published

    2009

    • Eichenhüller, B.; Engel, U.:
      Investigation of effects and parameter interactions in metal microforming processes.
      In: SAILE, V.; EHMANN, K.; DIMOV, S. (Edt.): 4M/ICOMM 2009, Proc. Global Conf on Micro Manufacture (incorp. 5th Int. Conf. on Multi-Material Micro Manufacture 4M and 4th Int. Conf. on Micro Manufacturing ICOMM), (2009), Wakefield, UK: The Charlesworth Group, pp. 245-248

    • Kroiß, T.; Engel, U.:
      FE-Based Modeling of Interactions Between Cold Forging Process, Tooling System and Force Controlled Press.
      In: Gantar, G. (Edt.): ICIT&MPT 2009, Proc. of the 7th Int. Conf. on Industrial Tools and Material Processing Technologies, Oktober 4-7, Ljubljana, Slovenia, (2009), Celje: TECOS, pp. 293-300

    2008

    • Eichenhüller, B.; Engel, U.:
      Microforming of titanium - forming behaviour at elevated temperature.
      In: Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture, 222(2008)1, Professional Engineering Publishing, pp. 77-82

    • Engel, U.; Geißdörfer, S.; Weidel, S.; Eichenhüller, B.:
      Ursache und Wechselwirkung in der Mikroumformtechnik.
      In: Mikroproduktion, (2008)2, München: Carl Hanser Verlag, pp. 39-43

    • Engel, U.; Geißdörfer, S.; Diehl, A.; Eichenhüller, B.; Weidel, S.:
      Mikroumformen - Ähnlich wie Makro?.
      In: Steinhoff, K.; Kopp, R. (Edt.): Umformtechnik im Spannungsfeld zwischen Plastomechanik und Werkstofftechnik, (2008), Bad Harzburg: GRIPS media GmbH, pp. 189-206

    • Eichenhüller, B.; Engel, U.; Geißdörfer, S.:
      Process parameter interaction in microforming.
      In: BOISSE, P. (Edt.): Proceedings of the 11th ESAFORM2008 conference on material forming, (2008), published on CD

    • Eichenhüller, B.; Engel, U.:
      Investigation of Parameter Interactions in Microforming.
      In: OZDOGANLAR, B. (Edt.): Proc. of the 3rd Int. Conf. on Micromanufacturing , (2008), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, pp. 207-210

    • Koch, J.; Völkl, R.; Engel, U.:
      FE-analysis based optimization of time, costs and quality with the consideration of stochastic process characteristics.
      In: AKADEMIA GóRNICZO-HUTNICZA (Edt.): Proceedings of the 12th International Conference Metal Forming, 2(2008), pp. 633-641

    • Koch, J.; Völkl, R.; Engel, U.:
      Effective Stochastic Simulation for the Optimization of Time, Costs and Quality in Cold Forging.
      In: Int. J. Mater. Forming, (2008)1, Paris: Springer, pp. 9-12

    • Kroiß, T.; Völkl, R.; Engel, U.; Geiger, M.:
      Modeling of Process-Tool-Machine Interactions in Cold Forging.
      In: Denkena, B. (Edt.): Proc. 1st Int. Conf. on Process Machine Interactions (PMI), (2008), Garbsen: PZH, pp. 175-182

    • Kroiß, T.; Engel, U.; Völkl, R.; Geiger, M.:
      Process-machine interactions in cold forging – calculation of press / tooling stiffness and its integration into FE process simulation.
      In: Yang, D.Y. (Edt.): Proc. of the 9th International Conference on Technology of Plasticity (ICTP), (2008), Gyeongju, pp. 1735-40

    2007

    • Eichenhüller, B.; Egerer, E.; Engel, U.:
      Microforming at elevated temperature - forming and material behaviour.
      In: The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 33(2007)1-2, London: Springer, pp. 119-124

    • Kroiß, T.; Völkl, R.; Engel, U.:
      Berechnung der Wechselwirkungen zwischen Umformmaschine und -prozess auf Basis der Integration eines Pressenmodells in die FE-Fließpresssimulation.
      In: DWM (Edt.): Proc.12th Dresdner Werkzeugmaschinen-Fachseminar, (2007), Dresden, published

    2006

    • Eichenhüller, B.; Engel, U.:
      Microforming of titanium - forming behaviour at elevated temperature.
      In: MENZ, W.; FILLON, B.; DIMOV, S. (Edt.): 2nd International Conference on Multi-Material Micro Manufacture, (2006), Oxford: Elsevier, pp. 339-342

    • Geißdörfer, S.; Diehl, A.; Eichenhüller, B.; Engel, U.:
      Microforming - Application and 3D Simulation.
      In: TETI, R. (Edt.): Proceedings of the 5th CIRP Seminar on Intelligent Computation in Manufacturing Engineering, (2006), Naples, Italien: University of Naples, pp. 521 - 526

    2005

    • Geiger, M.; Engel, U.; Eckstein, R.; Eichenhüller, B.; Räbiger, K.; Tiesler, N.:
      Umformtechnische Herstellung metallischer Kleinstteile.
      In: FELDMANN, K.; GEIGER, M. (Edt.): Sonderforschungsbereich 356 Produktionssysteme in der Elektronik, (2005), Bamberg: Meisenbach, pp. 23-59

    • Eichenhüller, B.; Egerer, E.; Engel, U.:
      Einfluss erhöhter Prozesstemperatur auf die Formänderungsgrenzen beim Mikrofließpressen.
      In: KOPP. R. (Edt.): Erweiterung der Formgebungsgrenzen bei Umformprozessen. Abschlussbericht DFG Schwerpunktprogramm 1074, (2005), Aachen: Verlagshaus Mainz, pp. 103-110

    • Eichenhüller, B.; Egerer, E.; Engel, U.:
      Microforming at elevated temperature - forming and material behaviour.
      In: MENZ, W.; DIMOV, S. (Edt.): 1st International Conference on Multi-Material Micro Manufacture, (2005), Oxford: Elsevier, pp. 151-154

    Last Update: 17.01.2011