KIMS | Materials Processing Innovation Research Division

Development of precision warm forming process for microstructure control of steel driving components.
Prediction of high temperature deformation behavior of hardly deformable high strength material and development of plastic deformation process.
Development of cold drawing process for the high-strength stainless steel and multi-component alloys.
Development of precision forming technology for lightweight metals (Al, Mg and Ti) with new constitutive modeling.
Design and analysis of electromagnetic forming and joining process.
Development of the roll bonding process for dissimilar metallic materials together with simultaneous improvement of both bonding strength and formability
Development of design and manufacturing process for lightweight and multi-functional periodic cellular metals(PCM).
Development of porous structure based materials by additive manufacturing technology.

Microstructure prediction based on CA-FEM, CPFEM etc.
Simulation of grain nucleation/recrystallization/grain growth/flow stress based on empirical and physical modeling in metal forming
Metallurgical-thermo-elasto-plastic finite element analysis
Development of texture controling process and texture analysis

Aerospace material and process develoment
Aerospace additive manufacturing
Data base of design allowables for aerospace design
Highly efficient fuel cell stack for drone
Carbon (ta-C, a-C, and a-C:H) thin and thick film coatings for tribology applications using Filtered Cathode Vacuum Arc (FCVA technology)