HIGHLIGHTS

Best Communication Award 2025

Starting from 2020, ESAFORM presents a “Best Communication Award” for papers and presentations at the annual ESAFORM conference. The aim of this award is to promote research activities in material forming and young researchers, engaged in a PhD activity, to help them...

The second Esaform webinar of the 2025 series

The second Esaform webinar of the 2025 series will be held on June 13, 2025 (3:00 p.m., CET) by Prof. Livan FRATINI on “Circular engineering of aluminum alloy chips through friction stir based processes”. For details of the speaker and the talk's abstract, please...

Best Communication Award 2024

The first Esaform webinar of the 2025 series

The first Esaform webinar of the 2025 series will be held on April 4, 2025 (11:00 a.m., CET) by Prof. Francisco Chinesta on “Digital Twins empowering engineering design and operation”. For details of the speaker and the talk's abstract, please download the...

The fourth Esaform webinar of the 2024 series

The fourth Esaform webinar of the 2024 series will be held on October 4, 2024 (3:00 p.m., CET) by Dr. Fabrice Pierron on “Material Testing 2.0 for anisotropic plasticity”. For details of the speaker and the talk's abstract, please download the announcement. The...

What we do

The European Scientific Association for material FORMing -ESAFORM- is a non-profit scientific association. It was founded in January 1997 with the aim to propagate interest for all types of materials and all topics connected to Material Forming.

Next Conference

The 29th International ESAFORM Conference on Material Forming (ESAFORM 2026) will be jointly hosted by Prof George Vosniakos (National Technical University of Athens) and Prof Nikolaos Michailidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki). It will be held in Thessaloniki (Greece), at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall between 27-29 April, 2026.

Material Forming

Within the association, forming has an open definition and includes any process that changes a materials’ shape.

International

ESAFORM in the recent years has established protocols of cooperation with national and international associations related to Material Forming.

Scientific Committee

The Scientific Committee safeguards the scientific quality of the ESAFORM conferences.

Prizes and Awards

ESAFORM offers a wide range of prizes awarding its members with great contribution to the field for researchers, industrial relevant doctors, and doctoral students.

Board of Directors

The Board of Directors is responsible for leading the association and is partly renewed every other year.

Publications

In cooperation with Springer, Esaform launched the International Journal of Material Forming in 2007 and the ESAFORM Book series in Material Forming in 2014.

ESAFORM Grants

ESAFORM offers a wide range of supporting grants for its members ranging from financial support in writing EU proposals over traveling of young researchers to workshop funding and support in the execution of benchmarks.

Our objectives

We connect researchers in academic and industrial research laboratories.

We stimulate applied research and spread scientific information on material forming. We promote the interests of the material forming research community.

ESAFORM statutes

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Membership

Participation in the annual conference includes a one-year membership. A direct application for membership, without conference participation, can be submitted here.

BOOKS

ESAFORM Bookseries in Material Forming

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This series publishes monographs and carefully edited books on every aspect covered by the European Scientific Association for Material Forming (ESAFORM). Like its supporting association, this collection acts as a tool for promoting applied research in University and Industry, spreading scientific information, and developing education in all aspects related to material forming in its broadest sense. Read more…

Subscribe on Springer

One of the major achievement of the ESAFORM association was the launching of an international journal. The International Journal of Forming Processes (Lavoisier) was for many years (1998-2007) the official journal of the ESAFORM association. However, the ESAFORM Board of Directors decided in 2007 to launch a new journal trying to enhance the international visibility and impact of published papers. Read more…

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The International Journal of Material Forming

2018 Impact Factor: 1.750

The International Journal of Material Forming is the official Journal of the European Scientific Association for material FORMing (ESAFORM) (www.esaform.org).

The Journal publishes and disseminates original research in the field of material forming. The research should constitute major achievements in the understanding, modeling or simulation of material forming processes. In this respect ‘forming’ implies a deliberate deformation of material.

The journal establishes a platform of communication between engineers and scientists, covering all forming processes, including sheet forming, bulk forming, powder forming, forming in near-melt conditions (injection moulding, thixoforming, film blowing etc.), micro-forming, hydro-forming, thermo-forming, incremental forming etc. Other manufacturing technologies like machining and cutting can be included if the focus of the work is on plastic deformations.

All materials (metals, ceramics, polymers, composites, glass, wood, fibre reinforced materials, materials in food processing, biomaterials, nano-materials, shape memory alloys etc.) and approaches (micro-macro modelling, thermo-mechanical modelling, numerical simulation including new and advanced numerical strategies, experimental analysis, inverse analysis, model identification, optimization, design and control of forming tools and machines, wear and friction, mechanical behavior and formability of materials etc.) are concerned.

Papers should describe new forming processes, experiments, models or modelling techniques, related to forming or the relation between process conditions and product properties. In general, simulation results should be validated by experiments unless the focus is purely on novel modelling techniques. New models or modelling techniques should have a broad applicability in forming simulations and should not be restricted to one particular shape.

Results of analytical or numerical models that are not translated into new knowledge or are not supported by experimental validation will not be accepted. Similarly, submissions that describe experimental results without thorough evaluation and conclusion and thus not leading to new knowledge, will be rejected. The relevance for forming technologies and the novelty of the work should be clearly described in the abstract.

F. CHINESTA Editor-in-Chief