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Mg-wrought alloys recently became an engineer material of constantly increasing interest. The mechanical properties of extruded Mg-feedstock of the alloys AZ80 and AZ31 indicate their suitability for automotive applications in form of high-quality forgings. Therefore a detailed knowledge about the forming behaviour is of particular importance. In order to compare mechanical properties of available Mg-feedstock qualities compression tests at room temperature have been carried out by applying batches of AZ31-and AZ80-feedstock. Cylindrical specimens were made out of received continuously casted as well as extruded AZ31-and AZ80 -rods. A quantitative analysis of Mg-feedstock's microstructure has been carried out. The characterization of the deformability of applied Mg-feedstock under hot working conditions could be performed by means of uniaxial plain strain upsetting tests at temperatures between 300 and 450 C as well as logarithmic strain rates of 10 -1, 1 and 10s. It is shown that the chosen parameter range ensures an enhanced deformability of continuously as well as extruded Mgfeedstock. The subsequently carried out determination of microstructural evolution could be related to obtained flow stress curves of applied batches of Mg-feedstock. Furthermore, FVM/FEM-systems have been employed in order to design a simplified geometry of heated forging dies suitable for forging tests. The tests have been carried out by means of a hydraulic press. During the tests their punch velocity has been varied between 1 and 40 mm/s. Hence numerically simulated results could be confirmed by practical tests. Exemplary forgings of a simplified shape were made out of all applied batches of Mg-feedstock. No remarkable failures have been detected.

Structured sheet metals with regular bumps offer higher stiffness compared to smooth sheet metals. They can be produced by a hydroforming process. The application of the structured sheet metals, however, is inhibited by the lack of knowledge for the subsequent processing steps. In this paper, the force and power requirements for air bending of structured sheet metals are calculated with a Finite Element Simulation (FE) and an analytical approach. In the first step, the hydroforming manufacturing process of the structured sheet metals is simulated in order to predict the exact geometry and the change in the material properties. Following, air bending simulations have been done taking into account the results of the hydroforming simulation. The FE-Simulations have been carried out with the software package LS-DYNA. The simulation models are validated with the optical displacement measuring system ARGUS and by a series of bending tests. For the analytical calculation the model based on the bending theory is adapted by simplifying the cross section of the structured sheet metals. The results of the FE-Simulation, the analytic calculation and the experiments are compared. The advantages and disadvantages as well as the application areas of the considered methods are indicated.