25.10.2024
International
Success at the 80th Hardening Congress: The Paul Riebensahm Prize goes to the Leibniz Institute for Materials Engineering – IWT again in 2024. The young talent award for the best scientific lecture is presented annually at the HK, the largest European congress for materials engineering and heat treatment, manufacturing and process engineering.
The Heat Treatment Congress (HK), which is organised annually by the German Society for Heat Treatment and Materials Technology, took place for the 80th time as a combined trade fair and congress. More than 180 exhibitors and several thousand guests were welcomed to this event at the Cologne Trade Fair. On the last day, the announcement of the jury for the best scientific lecture marked the end of the three-day event. This year, Gabriel Ebner, research associate in the heat treatment department within the materials engineering programme area at Leibniz-IWT in Bremen, was delighted to receive the award.
On the first day of the congress, Mr Ebner gave a lecture on wave distortion during oil quenching in an industrial quenching bath. He reported on his current research project, in which the exact relationships between local flow inhomogeneities and the distortion of transmission shafts are being investigated, as well as the acquisition of a deeper understanding of the associated processes. The presentation was supplemented by the results of laboratory tests that specifically examined the role of rewetting in the formation of distortion.
Prof. Rainer Fechte-Heinen, Chairman of the Board of Directors at Leibniz-IWT, congratulated after the announcement: ‘It was also a real pleasure for me to follow Mr Ebner's presentation at this year's HK. He has succeeded in presenting the sometimes very complex relationships between the flow field and distortion in a highly comprehensible way. I therefore warmly congratulate Mr Ebner on this well-deserved success and look forward to continuing to follow his work’.
The renowned Paul Riebensahm Prize is endowed with 2,000 euros and will be presented at the following year's Heat Treatment Congress. In 2023 and 2022, Leibniz-IWT was already pleased to receive an award from its employees in this competition.