To meet the various and critical manufacturing requirements including high precision, low
cost, good manufacturability, and more demanding from product service and performance …

Increasingly strict fuel efficiency standards have driven the aerospace and automotive
industries to improve the fuel economy of their fleets. A key method for feasibly improving the …

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 …

This review presents a thorough survey of the roll bonding process with a focus on the
bimetallic bars/tubes as well as the bonding models and criteria. The review aims to provide …

Electrically assisted solid-state joining (or electrically assisted pressure joining, EAPJ) of
dissimilar stainless steel 316L (SUS316L) and Inconel 718 (IN718) alloys is experimentally …

Functionally graded materials synergistically combine dissimilar components and can be
engineered to exhibit gradual controlled variations in composition, structure, or properties …

Nowadays, manufacturing of multi-material structures requires a variety of mechanical
joining techniques. Mechanical joining processes and joining elements are used to meet a …

This study presents an electrically assisted diffusion bonding (EADB) process as a variation
of solid-state diffusion bonding to obtain a wider dissemination of this technique. This …

Many electrically assisted processes have been reported to induce changes in
microstructure and metal plasticity. To understand the physics-based mechanisms behind …

Although laminated metal composites fabricated by accumulative roll bonding (ARB)
undergo kink-band formation, there are no guidelines for optimizing their fabrication to avoid …