Info-Day PC6 Priority no. 3

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Teaching Forging Excellence
Info-Day PC6 Priority no. 3 ROMNET-ERA
January 17, 2005
University Dunarea de Jos of Galati UGAL -
Partner no. 38 Mechanical Engineering Department
(Team Dr. A. Epureanu, Dr. D. Nicoara, Dr. C
Maier, Dr. M. Banu, Dr. V. Marinescu, Dr. V.
Paunoiu, Dr. O. Ciocan) - Coordinator and
contractor of 5 TEMPUS Programmes, 2 RD
Programmes financed by EU (COPERNICUS and PECO),
over 30 national research contracts in the field
of metal forming. - 3 equipped laboratories for
metal forming research and advanced computation
of mechanical processes.
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Project full title Virtual Intelligent Forging
Project acronym VIF CA Contract no.
507331 Creation of knowledge communities in
production technologies, July 2004 - July
2008 Coordinator CEMEF Centre de Mise en Forme
des Materiaux, France Description - The strategy
is to create a forging knowledge community
through several scientific, technological,
training and educational activities. These
activities are designed to - identify current
industrial and societal needs, analyse and use
the existing knowledge to solve these problems
(WP 1) - define, validate and use reference
benchmarks for virtual process simulations and
materials testing (WP 2) - create an e-Forging
environment (WP 3) - determine the needs for
material data and define a blueprint for an
e-Database (WP 4) - design a structure for the
virtual integration of process simulations from
raw materials to product design (WP 5) -
promote transversal educational programmes and a
roadmap for an e-learning forging platform (WP
6) - organise workshops for gathering the
current necessary knowledge and disseminate the
results of the project (WP 7) - promote
programmes for mobility of researchers, students
and industrial staff. (WP 8). - The consortium
gathers educational and research organisations,
experts in the various scientific areas, and a
large number of forging, software and IT
industries from 17 European countries. The
Deliverables include a Book of forging, projects
for an e-Database and an e-learning platform,
benchmarks for process simulations and materials
testing, and a structure for a virtual supply
chain. 49 Partners CEMEF France, IVF Sweden,
SCC France, DIMEG Italy, CIMNE Spain, IFUM
Germany, AGH Poland, Bath Poland, ULG Belgium,
CENAERO Belgium, BJC Denmark, DTU Denmark, IPU
Denmark, VTT Finland, CROMEP France, TSV France,
PSA France, ADH France, CETIM France, LAMCOS
France, LAMIH France, LFT Germany, PtU Germany,
CPM Germany, DCAG Germany, UM DME Hungary,
DTMPIG Italy, ORD Turkey, TBM Italy, FOMAS Italy,
TEKFOR Italy, TWENTE Nederland, CEMAL Poland,
IFM Poland, IDMEC Portugal, GDTech France, UGAL
Romania, UTCN Romania, FTN Serbia, NTF Slovenia,
BLAJ Slovenia, C3M Slovenia, METU Turkey,
Bournemouth Univ. UK, NPL UK, QUB UK, UBRUN UK,
STRATH UK, UoB UK.
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UGAL participates in WP2 - Existing documents,
Reference Data - and WP5 Teaching Forging
Excellence within the following actions State of
the art of the mechanical testing techniques and
physical parameters determination techniques, E-
metal forming portal with the results of UGAL
team, Releasing the teaching materials introduced
in ARIADNE network, Master curricula in Virtual
Intelligent Metal Forming within continuing
education system, Organizing a summer school on
Metal Forming Processes subject.
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