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The IUL team is available for you. Please contact us by phone or email. All teaching and research work is carried out regularly in the experimental hall, explicitly taking the infection control measures into account. On December 17, 2020, the hall lecture at the IUL was held digitally for the first time. This special lecture is held every winter semester as part of the lectures Fundamentals in Forming Technology and Forming Technologies II in order to provide students with a practical insight into the experimental area. After a short welcome and introduction to the institute by Prof. Tekkaya, the approximately 100 students attending the Zoom meeting were able to participate in a virtual tour through the hall, while at the same time experiments on four experimental stands were streamed live. IUL staff members conducted experiments on parameter identification, rotary draw bending, incremental sheet forming, and adiabatic blanking. The students had the opportunity to ask questions and comment on what they had seen at any time. In the SFB / TRR188 Damage-Controlled Forming Processes, research on the paradigm shift in forming technology can be continued until 2024. The German Research Foundation (DFG) has decided to continue funding the Collaborative Research Center Transregio (TRR) 188. For the second funding period until the end of 2024, 11.4 million euros were approved. As initiator and spokesperson of the Collaborative Research Center, Prof. A. E. Tekkaya will regularly hand over the management to Prof. G. Hirt from the IBF at RWTH Aachen University starting from January 2021. Other institutions involved in the second funding period are the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung in Düsseldorf and the Institute for Applied Materials Section Materials and Biomechanics at KIT in Karlsruhe. Internal material damage occurs when metal is formed. Under the guiding principle that damage is controllable and not a failure, the CRC/TRR 188 investigates how this affects the product properties. Within the interdisciplinary ...