The Latest Developments and Events at GMT: Stay Informed!

From April 17th to 18th, 2024, our annual QForm UK User Meeting took place in the inspiring MotorWorld Munich. Nearly 30 participants from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland tested the advantages and improvements of the latest version, QForm UK 11.0.2, under the guidance of Dr. Nick Biba (Director Micas Simulations Ltd.) and Dmitry Gerasimov (Product Manager for D/A/CH at the QForm Group). They discussed new features in workshops and attentively followed the presentations and reports of QForm UK users from various fields, sharing their experiences with QForm UK in a relaxed atmosphere. Many thanks to prosimalys for organizing the event!

On September 21, 2023, Forum Umformtechnik Stuttgart e.V. hosted its Autumn Forum 'Conversations' and welcomed more than 50 participants from the industry and research. This provided a unique opportunity for exchanging experiences. We also participated in person for the first time and look forward to the event next year to establish new connections and strengthen existing ones.

The materials database MatILDa® now also supplies material data to the FEM software QForm UK via a newly developed interface. Users can select required material data via this standard interface and import it into their FEM project. In the use of experimentally determined material data with consideration of the stress state in the forming process (tension, compression, torsion) a considerable potential for the improvement of the representation of a forming process in a FEM simulation is identified. The further development was carried out in cooperation of GMT mbH with QForm UK and promises highly precise simulation results to the users.

Meet us at the ALUMINIUM 2022 exhibition in Düsseldorf from September 27-29, 2022, at our booth 4G14 in exhibition hall 4! We will present the forming simulation programs QForm UK Extrusion and QForm UK. We invite you to visit our numerous mini-seminars at the booth (seminar program will follow soon) and learn more about the performance of the QForm UK products.

Today, FEM simulation is a widely used tool for modelling forming and heat treatment processes. The exact simulation has been continuously optimized in recent years, so that process and boundary conditions are specified with increasingly higher accuracy. In the use of material data, however, compromises are often made and similar alloys or standard literature values are used. In this case, exact material data adapted to the stresses of the forming process in question (tension, compression, torsion) can significantly increase the accuracy of the FEM simulation results!

19th to 23rd June, 2022: “Steels in Cars and Trucks” conference in Milan (Italy). Topic: Performance leaps through intelligent technology solutions. GMT and KOCKS presented three key solutions regarding sustainability, flexibility and digitization: The innovative HDQT® technology – implemented in collaboration with the Steeltec group on an industrial scale as XTP® technology – applies a thermomechanical treatment of bar materials to improve toughness and durability of standard steel grades without the addition of alloying elements. The ma-terial database MatILDa® supports users in material optimization and is one tool GMT relies on to assist with intelligent plant control regarding the inductive heating of long products. The KMS® technology provides process simulation and permits precise setting of local component properties, thus saving resources.