Aluminium alloys are being increasingly utilised in the automotive and aerospace industries
to reduce the weight of vehicles. Extensive research has been conducted to overcome the …

This paper reviews the most recent models for description of the anisotropic plastic behavior
and formability of sheet metals. After a brief review of classic isotropic yield functions, recent …

The demand for new processes to produce high strength parts, under appropriate cost and
productivity, has grown with weight reduction and crash safety improvements in automobile …

High strength aluminum alloys have drawn much attention as the requirement for lightweight
vehicle design increases in the automotive industry. However, inferior formability due to …

An FE model of the solution heat treatment, forming and in-die quenching (HFQ) process
was developed. Good correlation with a deviation of less than 5% was achieved between …

A new generation of fluid pressure forming technology has been developed for the three
typical structures of tubes, sheets, and shells, and hard-to-deform material components that …

The occurrence of wrinkling and splitting in forming integral aluminum alloy thin shells using
traditional forming processes is extremely difficult to preclude. Accordingly, a novel forming …

The hot tensile and fracture behavior, as well as damage mechanisms of Ti6Al4V alloy are
investigated by the hot tension tests and microstructure observation experiments. For …

In metal-forming processes friction leads to the generation of heat, adhesion and the pick-up
of work material, tool wear, inhomogeneous deformations, defects and a poor surface …

In analysing metal forming processes the deformation mechanism map (elastic-plastic,
elastic-viscoplastic, or creep type behaviour) for a particular process is commonly built solely …