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Industrial manufacturing needs to be competitive to persist, often on a global market. Research in the Production Technology group addresses the technical issues of new products and new processes. The group focuses on the optimisation of both the manufacturing process and the performance of lightweight materials in structural applications.

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Muhammad Niazi wins the ESAFORM PhD Prize for Industrial Research

Dr. M.S. Niazi has been awarded with the ESAFORM PhD Prize for Industrial Research. He successfully defended his PhD last year in December from the Faculty of Engineering & Technology, University of Twente.

The ESAFORM PhD Prize for Industrial Research intends to distinguish a confirmed researcher/designer or a group of industrial researchers/designers, who have brought an outstanding contribution in the field of industrial materials forming. This contribution may lead to a (potential) innovation in design, control or performance of industrial materials processing.

The PhD of Dr. M.S. Niazi relates to continuum damage modeling for sheet metal forming applications in Advanced High Strength Steels (AHSS). Development of AHSS is an important step in reducing the automobile weight. However, plastic deformation induces damage in AHSS. Damage development is anisotropic by nature and shall be considered anisotropic for accurate failure predictions. In this research, anisotropy in damage has been classified into two categories; Material Induced Anisotropy in Damage (MIAD) and Load Induced Anisotropy in Damage (LIAD).

MIAD is related to the anisotropy in distribution and shape of second phase particles or impurities and is governed by void/crack nucleation. LIAD is related to the loading direction of the material. The phenomenon of MIAD was discovered during this research. This is the first research showing the occurrence of MIAD in AHSS. The Modified Lemaitre’s (ML) anisotropic damage model was developed to account for both kind of induced anisotropies. The model was validated with experiments.

Sebastiaan Haanappel will defend his PhD thesis on Friday the 12^th of April!

Sebastiaan Haanappel will finalise his UTwente and TPRC route on the 12^th of April by defending his PhD thesis ‘Forming of UD fibre reinforced thermoplastics: A critical evaluation of intra-ply shear’. This thesis lies in the line of the press-forming related research initiated by Remko Akkerman, which has led to the thesis of Edwin Lamers, Sebastiaan Wijskamp and René ten Thije. It is worth adding that this is the first PhD Thesis within TPRC. After both a master and a PhD within the chair of Production Technology, Sebastiaan will continue his career within Aniform, our very favorite spin-off (03-2013)

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Bo Cornelissen will defend his PhD thesis on Friday the 25^th of January!

Bo Cornelissen will finalise his UTwente route on the 25^th of Januari by defending his PhD thesis ‘The Role of Friction in Tow Mechanics’. Tow mechanics is the key to refined composite processing simulations. Within this broad topic, Bo has focused on the inter-tow friction as well as the tow-mould friction in the dry state. After both a master and a PhD within the chair of Production Technology, Bo will continue his career at Teijin Aramid (01-2013)

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PhD Wouter Grouve with distinction

August 31^st Wouter Grouve MSc. successfully defended his thesis “Weld strength of laser-assisted tape-placed thermoplastic composites”. The committee was very satisfied with the quality of the research and the defense that he was granted the title with distinction. Dr. Wouter continues his career within TPRC. (08-2012)

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Ted Ooijevaar visiting PhD at NASA

Ted Ooijevaar is working for a 6 month period at NASA Langley! A project has been defined with researcher at Langley and fits within his PhD project on Vibration based Structural Health Monitoring of composite structure.

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Opening TPRC laboratory and visiting center

On Tuesday June 26, the partners in the TPRC ThermoPlastic composites Research Centre have opened the new TPRC laboratory and visiting center on the Innovation Campus in Enschede. Founding partner of TPRC are Boeing, Fokker, Ten Cate and UT-ProductionTechnology. Research director is Remko Akkerman. (06-2012) Readmore

TPRC Partners Have Opened The New Laboratory and Visiting Center

Program Update Opening TPRC Laboratory and Visiting Center

Green Team Twente wins Shell Eco Marathon

Green Team Twente won the Shell Eco Marathon in the urban concept class with a hydrogen propelled fuel cell. This year the team, consisting of 11 mechanical engineering students, joined the competition for the first time. With great passion, enthusiasm and perseverance their UTmotive consumed the least amount of fuel.

Laurent Warnet en Gert Jan Nevenzel of the Production Technology group assisted them with materials selection and manufacturing of the suspension wings; Ton Bor supported the team by guidance of the project. (05-2012)