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Alu-TV® Conference
Alu-Scout® and Alu-TV® at ICEB 2009 in Dortmund
Alu-Scout®, the specialist portal for the aluminium industry, and Alu-TV®, the innovative TV format, were the media partners of the International Conference on Extrusion and Benchmark, ICEB, in Dortmund, Germany.
This year’s ICEB under the chairmanship of Prof. Dr.-Ing. A. Erman Tekkaya took place on 16-17 September 2009 in the conference centre of the Westfalenhallen Dortmund. Organiser of the conference, which is held alternately every two years in Dortmund and Bologna, Italy, was the Institute of Forming Technology and Lightweight Construction (IUL) of the Technical University (TU) Dortmund in co-operation with the DIEM-Tech Manufacturing Technology Group of the University of Bologna.
The ICEB’s guest of honour was Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Kleiner, President of the German Research Foundation (DFG). In his speech he pointed out that particularly in view of the move from conventional drive systems to electrical ones, lightweight constructions will become ever more popular in the car industry and the automotive components supply industry and thus illustrate the market potential for extruded aluminium.
The fact that about 70% of the more than 150 conference participants were from industry was a clear indication of the large interest shown by companies in the latest research results even in times of crisis. Many companies and exhibitors also took the opportunity to present their new products.
At this year’s conference, Alu-TV® conducted interviews with exhibitors and professors from the participating university institutes and was present when scientific results and progress reports were presented from the following fields:
The large number of papers meant that it was necessary to present them in parallel, for example ‘Simulation of the Quench Sensitivity of the Aluminium Alloy 6082’ in parallel to ‘Simulation of the Coextrusion of Hybrid Mg/Al Profiles’ and a presentation about how efficiently one can produce during the current economic crisis.
In the evening on the first day, the conference participants had the opportunity to visit the IUL laboratory and find out more about the state of the art and other fields of research at IUL. In particular, for many visitors one of the highlights was the operating extrusion plant with its downstream robots for rounding the profiles exiting the extrusion press
The dominating theme on the second day was this year’s benchmark. The Institute of Forming Technology and Lightweight Construction carried out tests with a die for producing two C-shaped profiles and determined typical characteristics such as die deflection, profile curvature, load-displacement diagram, profile length, profile speed, die temperature, container temperature and ram temperature. The C-shaped profiles were chosen because they were expected to cause marked die deflection and thus curvature of the profiles.
The participants in the benchmark, both scientific institutes and companies, were given the task of using FEM simulations to calculate the characteristic values determined in tests carried out at IUL. They presented the results of their simulations on the second day of the conference. It was noticeable here how well the relevant process parameters could be predicted using simulation, i.e. how close they were to the values measured by IUL.
Participants at this year’s International Conference on Extrusion and Benchmark judged it to be a very successful and informative event. The visitors to the conference went back home with plenty of ideas and new findings.
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 Interview: Prof.Dr.-Ing. Matthias KleinerPräsident der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft
 Interview: Prof. Dr. -Ing. A. Erman TekkayaLeiter IUL, Organisator ICEB 2009
 Interview: Prof. Luca TomesaniUniversity of Bologna
 Interview: Dipl. -Ing. Horst GersFachausschuss Strangpressen der DGM
 Interview: Dr. -Ing. Michael MarréGeschäftsführer des SFB Transregio 10
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