Residual stresses are considered critical to quality in conventional manufacturing strategies. This is where the DFG’s Priority Programme 2013 comes in, looking instead at the opportunities and possibilities for improving the properties of components by targeted use of residual stresses. In the years 2017 to 2023, research teams from all over Germany were able to prove the stability, controllability and usefulness of residual stresses in flat and solid forming manufacturing processes of metallic components. In addition, the cross-project working groups achieved many insights into the fundamental understanding, simulation and, in particular, industry-oriented measurement of residual stresses. The extensive results of these six years of research activities are presented in this final report.

List of Authors (in alphabetical order): Muhammad Junaid Afzal, Nikolas Baak, Markus Baumann, Bernd-Arno Behrens, Tim Bergelt, Markus Bergmann, Lempoi Isedore Besong, Thomas Böhlke, Dominik Brands, Alexander Brosius, Johannel Buhl, Dhia Charni, Jérémy Epp, Hannes Erdle, Alessandro Franceschi, Jens Gibmeier, Ines Gilch, Peter Groche, Christina Guilleaume, Marlon Hahn, Ramin Hajavifard, Kay Hameyer, Christoph Hartmann, Pascal Heinzelmann, Sonja Hellebrand, Gerhard Hirt, Holger Hoche, Katja Holzer, Fabian Jäger, Andreas Jobst, Martha Kalina, Markus Kästner, Christoph Kock, Maximilian Krause, Verena Kräusel, Bernd Kuhfuss, David Kühne, Thomas Lampe, Lasse Langstädtler, Jose Lara, Nora Leuning, Mathias Liewald, Fabian Maaß, Thomas Mehner, Marion Merklein, Daniel Müller, Tobias Neuwirth, Anian Nürnberger, Matthias Oechsner, Pavlo Pavliuchenko, Maximilian Plötz, Stefanie Prauser, Erwin Reberger, Walter Reimers, Kim Rouven Riedmüller, Aron Ringel, Benedikt Schauerte, Christian Schenck, Tom Schneider, Jörg Schröder, Michael Schulz, Simon Sebold, René Selbmann, Christian Siedbürger, Nicola Simon, Karsten Stahl, Paul Steinmann, A. Erman Tekkaya, Thomas Tobie, Wolfram Volk, Frank Walther, Hendrik Wester and Lisa Winter.