The Senate of the German Research Foundation (DFG) had approved this program as a funding program in March 2016.

The duration was designed for six years, divided into three two-year funding periods. It involved 12 research projects in which 13 universities with a total of 24 institutes were and are involved nationwide.

The last consortium meeting for this program took place at the TU Darmstadt on October 12/13, 2022. The meeting was chaired by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfram Volk from the Department of Forming Technology and Foundry Engineering at the Technical University of Munich. He has been responsible for the project coordination of SPP2013 from the very beginning.

Satisfied with the research results on the use of residual stresses

Before the projects are concluded next year, they were presented once again with information on the current state of research.

The responsible scientists and researchers were extremely satisfied with the results achieved so far on the objectives:

• Predictability of the property improvements of the components in operation with the aid of suitable prognosis models
• Design, layout and optimization of the processes (with regard to the specific application)
• Proof of residual stress stability under given service boundary conditions 

Using findings for industry and research

"It would be desirable to transfer knowledge in 2023/2024 after the end of the project, with the aim of transferring the project results to industrial processes and components."

This was already expressed by Prof. Dr. Ing. Volk a few weeks ago at the SPP2013 industry colloquium in Garching.

In the meantime, a wide variety of discussions are underway with relevant industrial partners. The mood is positive and highly motivated to apply the research in practice.

They also want to use the findings for teaching

In the technical circles:

• Production engineering thin-walled
• mechanics and simulation
• Metrology

relevant topics were defined, which are to be illustrated on teaching slides.

The target group for the slides are male and female students in the bachelor course of studies 5th semester.

Final report to be published in 2023

Of course, the findings of the overall project are to be used in a variety of ways and made known. At the end of project phase 3, a final report with the same title

"Targeted use of forming-induced residual stresses in metallic components" will be published in the course of 2023. More on this shortly.

Presentation of the projects of SPP2013 from 25-28.10.2022 at the EuroBlech in Hannover. 
Visit us at the EFB joint booth in hall 11 booth B08 !!!