Optimization for structural crashworthiness and energy absorption has become an important
topic of research attributable to its proven benefits to public safety and social economy. This …

Tailored Blanks is the collective for semi-finished sheet products which are characterised by
a local variation of the sheet thickness, sheet material, coating or material properties. With …

The word “Waste” normally emphasis something around us which should be re-cycle, re-
used, reduced or even eliminated, if possible. A giant amount of waste, such as …

Flexibility in metal forming is needed more than ever before due to rapidly changing
customer demands. It paves the way for a better control of uncertainties in development and …

The purposes of this review are to summarize the historical progress in the last 60 years of
lightweight metal forming, to analyze the state-of-the-art, and to identify future directions in …

Use of laser welded blanks of multiple sheets of material prior to forming is one of the current
interests of automotive industries as it reduces manufacturing cost and weight and also …

Influence of tempers on the hole-expansion formability of an AA7075 aluminum sheet is
investigated for-T6 (as-received) and-W tempers (super saturated by the solution heat …

In this paper, the multi-scale strain characteristics of AA2219 alloy friction stir welded joints
deformation at cryogenic temperature were analyzed quantitatively. The macro strain …

Strain localization and premature splitting in the vicinity of outer heat affected zone is a
major concern in the formability performance of laser welded similar material dual phase …

This paper aims to investigate the crushing behaviors of tailor-welded blank (TWB) thin-
walled structures. A series of TWB high-strength steel (HSS) square tubes with different weld …