On 17 and 18 June 2015, the IKV specialist conference “Material and Process Combinations for Composite-Based Lightweight Automotive Components – Trends, Materials, Plant and Process Engineering” (“Werkstoff- und Prozesskombinationen für composite-basierte Automobil-Leichtbauteile – Trends, Werkstoffe, Anlagen- und Verfahrenstechnik”) takes place in Aachen. Owing to increasing demands for resource efficiency, cost-effective lightweight construction is a key technology, particularly for automotive engineering. This is because fibre-reinforced plastics offer particularly great potential for reducing the weight of vehicles. The targeted combination of different materials in integral components offers opportunities to optimise component properties under economic constraints. The particular challenges here are the simulation-based prediction of the properties of the hybrid components and the plant and process engineering.
IKV is therefore hosting this successful specialist conference for the second time, at which experts from industry and from IKV present the most important processes and perspectives for combining different materials. The conference is chaired and moderated by Dipl.-Ing. Martin Würtele of KraussMaffei Technologies GmbH, Munich.
As part of this conference, Dr.-Ing. Hans Wobbe gives a talk on “Combination Technologies with Lightweight Potential” (“Kombinationstechnologien mit Leichtbaupotenzial”).
The detailed programme with all further information for download: Conference programme Automotive Lightweight Construction 2015 (PDF)
