Waterloo Forming and Crash Laboratory
200 University Ave W, Waterloo, ON N2L3G1
Focus Areas
Constitutive characterization of lightweight materials (tensile and compressive testing at room and elevated temperatures); High strain rate material characterization (strain rates up to 1, 000/s);
Sheet metal formability characterization at warm and elevated temperatures; Hot stamping (press hardening) of ultra-high-strength steels; Large-scale crashworthiness testing of components, sub-assemblies and structures; Numerical simulation and material model development for all of the above topics (focus is on using LS-DYNA and AutoForm)