International Students Olympiad in Hot Bulk Forging and Extrusion Technologies 2021
      Students of mechanical engineering are invited to take part in the International Students Olympiad in Hot Bulk Forging Technologies, which will take place in April 2021 at universities around the world.
     The competition between students will consist of the following parts: students will get a drawing of an axisymmetric part after machining and should design the hot forged part and die impression for the final forging and then determine necessary technological chain for its manufacturing and then simulate proposed forging process. Students can choose an alternative task for developing technological process of hollow aluminium profile extrusion. Simulation will be performed in QForm software for estimation and verification of the developed technology.
      Organizers are asked to submit a competition entry with a list of applicant students. If the local organizer invites students from multiple universities then each university is limited to 3 participating students so if more are interested in participating, then each university must pre-select 3 most qualified participants. If only one university is involved with a local organizer, then more than 3 students may participate. On the day of the event in April 2021 competing students should arrive to assigned class room and each student will work on a personal computer with QForm simulation and CAD software installed and will have 6 hours to design the technology, to simulate it and to create a report using text editor such as Microsoft Word. Students’ reports should include calculations and justification of the proposed technology, applications and drawings in text file as well as saved QForm FE-simulation file. Each report will have special random number to achieve fair and unbiased judging. The results will be judged by a local committee. Winners will get diplomas and prizes. Then 1st place winners from each country will move on to the Scientific Committee judgment between countries where three best students’ reports from around the world will get special diplomas and prizes.
      Designed technology will be judged by the following criteria:
  • computation of hot forged part drawing;
  • justification of designed bulk forging technology;
  • effectiveness and efficiency of proposed technology based on the results of simulation in QForm. Optimally designed technology should provide no defects, complete filling of the die impression, consist of minimum number of technological chain steps with high forging energy efficiency and high material consumption efficiency with optimal grain flow.
      Basic language of the Olympiad is English. Each Organizer may use different languages for reports but the students’ reports for International Committee judgment have to be translated into English.
      Deadlines:
  • January 29, 2021: Organizational Committee membership confirmation (including contact person) to [email protected]
  • January 29, 2021: Competition entry from universities (including request for QForm license if needed)
  • March 10, 2021: List with applicant students
  • April 17, 2021: Recommended date of the Olympiad at universities
       Additional conditions:
     All universities taking part in the Olympiad will get a free 3-month network QForm software license for 3 places to practice before the Olympiad by request. The universities will also get the solved example from the previous Olympiad for review as well as a training course of simulation in QForm.
Сoordinator
Scientific Committee
Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Hungary)
Department of Material Science and Engineering
www.bme.hu
PhD student, József Bálint Renkó
Bauman MSTU (Russia),
Department of Metal Forming
www.bmstu.ru/en/
Ph.D., Asst. Professor Yuri Gladkov
AGH University of Science and Technology (Poland),
Department of Metal Forming WlMilP
www.ppm.agh.edu.pl 
Ph.D., Associate professor, D.Sc. Eng. Aneta Łukaszek-Sołek
Universität Stuttgart (Germany),
Institut für Umformtechnik
www.ifu.uni-stuttgart.de
Head of Institute, Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h. c. Mathias Liewald
Politecnico di Torino (Italy),
Department of Management and Production Engineering
www.polito.it
Professor Manuela De Maddis
University of Belgrade (Serbia)
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Production Engineering Department
www.bg.ac.rs
Ph.D., Associate professor Mihajlo Popović
Technical University of Sofia (Bulgaria),
Department of Materials Science and Technology
www.tu-sofia.bg
Head of Department, Ph.D., Asst. Prof. Valentin Kamburov
University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest (Romania),
Materials Processing and Ecometallurgy Department
www.upb.ro
Vice President of the Romanian, Forging Association, Assoc. Prof. PhD. Nicolae Serban
OmSTU (Russia),
Institute for Continuing Professional Education
www.omgtu.ru
Head of Institute, Ph.D., Asst. Professor Igor Markechko
University of Ljubljana (Slovenia),
Chair of Manufacturing technologies and systems
Faculty of mechanical engineering
www.uni-lj.si
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tomaž Pepelnjak
PHCET, Rasayani (India),
www.phcet.ac.in
Dr. R. C. Prasad, Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering
QuantorForm LLC
www.qform3d.com
CEO, Ph.D. Sergey Stebunov