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Mihaela Oleksik is a dedicated researcher in the field of advanced manufacturing, with a primary focus on **single point incremental forming (SPIF)**—a flexible sheet metal forming process that offers significant advantages over conventional methods like deep-drawing. Her work centers on understanding and optimizing the mechanical behavior of materials during SPIF, particularly the critical challenges of **springback prediction, thickness reduction, and forming forces**. Oleksik’s major contributions include a 2019 study that provides an optical method for predicting springback and analyzing force variations, as well as experimental investigations into the formability of polymeric materials such as PA and PE sheets (2021). She has also conducted comparative analyses of different experimental SPIF layouts (2018) and applied the **Taguchi method** to systematically analyze forming forces (2022). While her citation counts are modest—ranging from 2 to 4 per paper—her work is foundational for researchers seeking to improve process reliability and expand SPIF applications to new materials. Oleksik’s research is particularly valuable for students and engineers interested in incremental forming, offering practical insights into process parameters and material behavior that bridge experimental design and industrial applicability.