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European Aluminium Congress 2013 – The programme is ready
The programme for the EAC – European
Aluminium Congress 2013 is ready. The
international congress with its theme
‘Aluminium Automotive
Applications –
Tomorrow’s Design and
Sustainable Performance’
will be held by the German
Aluminium Association
GDA in Düsseldorf
on 25 and 26 November
2013. The programme
of the EAC 2013 shows
presentations on possible
applications of aluminium
in motor vehicle manufacturing,
but also presentations
on further developments
with potential for
making vehicles of the
future even lighter and
more energy efficient.
Aluminium has become an
indispensable material in the motor car: castings
for engine housings, cylinder heads, and
gearbox housings or for structural parts in the
auto body. Today this is state-of-the-art. But
semi-finished products in the form of sheets,
extruded profiles and forgings
are also being used more and
more in vehicles. Some examples
of this are car body structural
parts, sheets for the outer
shell or crash-related parts,
such as bumper crossbeams or
longitudinal beam structures.
Even more examples can be
found in the form of extruded
profiles used as decorative
strips for visual enhancement,
or as safety related parts in the
area of the chassis.
The increasingly intensive
competition between the different
materials has prompted
car manufacturers and aluminium
suppliers to work
more closely together. With
its investments in application-oriented
research and development, the
aluminium industry has repeatedly improved
the characteristics of its material, developed
new products, and optimised production processes.
Innovations in processes and materials
are strong drivers behind the development of
efficient lightweight construction solutions
and their implementation in series production,
such as energy-saving components for chassis,
engine and gearbox.
The EAC congress ‘Aluminium Automotive
Applications’ is divided into a total of
five sessions, dealing with the subjects design,
body structure, subframes, process technologies,
joining technologies and surfaces as well
as markets, recycling and sustainability. Notable
speakers from international companies
will offer information and real-life examples
in all the sessions of the congress.
Conference language is English. All presentations
will be simultaneously translated into
German. More information on the congress
website at www.aluminium-congress.com.
Your contact at organiser GDA:
Georg Grumm
Phone: +49 (0)211 4796 160
E-mail: georg.grumm@aluinfo.de
ICEB – Intl Conference on Extrusion and Benchmark, 8-9 October 2013
The International Conference on Extrusion
and Benchmark (ICEB) has become
the biggest event in Europe related to
the recent developments on extrusion
technologies and their analysis by FEM
simulation. The fourth edition is planned
for 8-9 October 2013 in Dortmund, Germany.
More than 150 delegates attended the
2011 edition, with participants from over
27 countries including America and the Far
East. With two-thirds of the participants
coming from the industry and with representatives
from all the multinationals of
aluminium, a strong interest was evidenced
in getting and sharing knowledge on these
topics of technological frontier. The aim of
the conference is to join together technical
and scientific experts, to widespread their
knowledge and to form an international
community for the discussion of state of
the art, as well as future developments, in
the field of extrusion and in its most powerful
tool, the numerical simulation.
ICEB is a two-in-one event, merging a conference
on the ‘Latest advances in the extrusion
of light alloys’ with an industrial worldwide
contest: ‘FEM codes Benchmark’.
• In the conference sessions invited papers
from academia as well as from industries will
describe the most recent developments in the
analysis, optimisation and research of the light
alloys extrusion processing.
• In the benchmark sessions, participants
will be asked to simulate the extrusion of an
industrial case (a specially designed die for
emphasising selected process-related issues),
on the base of die geometries, material properties,
ram speed and tools temperatures, as
they were monitored by the organisers. Only
during the conference the blind simulations
results will be discussed and compared to
the data recorded during experimental trials,
thus allowing a clear and equal comparison
of different FEM codes and simulating approaches.
This two-in-one event provides a unique
opportunity to:
• learn about innovation and simulation
capabilities in the extrusion of light alloys
• get guidelines for best process analysis
and product optimisation
• understand the potential of your current
simulation tool
• have the widest possible range of information
on extrusion simulation today.
The conference heads toward extruders
(technicians, R&D divisions, production
managers), extruded profile users, academic
and industrial researchers, die makers,
alloys specialists, software houses and software
distributors, press and equipment builders.
More information at www.ice-b.net. ■
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