Press release

06/05/2020 | Together with ten project partners, coordinated by Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. KG, Bamberg, scientists from the Laboratory for Material and Joining Technology (LWF) at the University of Paderborn are developing a combined physical and virtual…

03/09/2020 | More than 215 participants from industry and research met at the 20th colloquium "Joint Research in Bonding Technology" on 03 and 04 March 2020 in the Marienberg Fortress in Würzburg.   The LWF was prominently represented at the most important…

02/28/2020 | Within the master lecture "Thermal Joining Processes" a one-day excursion to Tucker GmbH STANLEY Engineered Fastening was offered on 20.02.2020. After arriving by bus, the participants were welcomed by the plant manager and head of R&D during a…

11/04/2019 | On 3 and 4 December 2019 the 9th Symposium " Mechanical Joining Technology Research" will take place in Braunschweig. This year's event will be hosted by the Niedersächsisches Forschungszentrum Fahrzeugtechnik (NFF) in Braunschweig in cooperation…

10/23/2019 | University research is predominantly financed by third-party funding from research communities, foundations, federal and state ministries, either directly or through funding organisations such as the Federation of Industrial Research Associations…

09/26/2019 | At this year's FOREL Colloquium, the Research and Technology Centre for resource-efficient lightweight structures in electric mobility brought together scientists and industry representatives from the lightweight design and vehicle industry sector.…

07/22/2019 | Every year, the International Institute of Welding (IIW) organizes a conference at which approximately 500-750 scientists from the field of joining technology meet and exchange information on current research topics. This year the conference took…

06/11/2019 | At the Laboratory for Material and Joining Technology (LWF), a new research project is starting with the project "DigiBody - Digital Process Chain for the Design and Optimization of Joining Technology in Structural Bodies".

06/11/2019 | Vom 25. bis zum 28. Juni 2019 traf sich der gesamte Lehrstuhl des LWF® zum jährlichen Strategiemeeting in Göteborg. Im Zuge dessen erarbeiteten die Fachgruppen, gemeinsam mit Lehrstuhlinhaber Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerson Meschut, die strategische…

05/24/2019 | At the University of Paderborn, a new Collaborative Research Centre/Transregio (SFB/TRR) has been established in the field of product manufacturing with "Method development for mechanical joining in versatile process chains". The German Research…

04/24/2019 | This year's EFB project award goes to Mr. Sebastian Meyer (LWF) and Mr. Hendrik Vogt (IFUM) for the project "Introduction of functional elements during hot forming of 22MnB5" (18483N, EFB Research Report 498).

03/20/2019 | More than 240 participants from industry and research met at the 19th colloquium "Joint research in bonding technology" on 12 and 13 February 2019 at the Maternushaus in Cologne.

02/06/2019 | As part of the master lecture "Thermal Joining Processes", a one-day excursion to Tucker GmbH STANLEY Engineered Fastening in Gießen was offered on 21.01.2019.

01/14/2019 | Im Rahmen des FAT-Projektes „Leichtbaubatteriegehäuse“ wird vom LWF der Universität Paderborn und dem ika der RWTH Aachen eine integrative, gewichtsoptimierte Batteriegehäusestruktur für Volumenfahrzeuge entwickelt.

11/30/2018 | Completion of the research project "Method development for the simulation of the thermomechanical behaviour of adhesive layers in hybrid joints during the curing process"