Materials

• New advanced materials: sheet and tools materials
• Light materials for aeronautical, automotive, packaging and other applications
• Materials models

Processes and Tooling

• Innovative and new forming processes
• Numerical modelling and simulation in forming processes
• Optimal design & Intelligent Forming
• Rapid Design & Prototyping
• Process Control and Monitoring

Testing

• Materials testing issues in sheet metal forming
• Formability 
• Wear, friction and tribological aspects
• Modelling and simulation in testing