Product miniaturization is an emerging trend for facilitating product usage, enabling unique
product functions to be implemented in micro-scaled geometries and features, and further …

Plastic deformation at the macroscopic scale has been widely exploited in industrial practice
in order to obtain desired shape and control the requested properties of metallic alloy parts …

Pure copper is widely used in the industry as the base metal for heat transfer and
electromagnetic applications, thanks to its superior electrical and thermal conductivity …

The demand on micro-parts is significantly increasing in the last decade due to the trend of
product miniaturization. When the part size is scaled down to micro-scale, the billet material …

In meso/micro-scaled plastic deformation, material deformation and ductile fracture are quite
different from those in macro-scale. The roughness of the free surfaces of workpiece …

Crystal structure determines the distinct deformation mode of crystalline materials and thus
plays a critical role in micro-scale deformation. The micro-deformation mechanism at grain …

Microforming process is a promising micromanufacturing technology for producing
microparts due to its high efficiency, low production cost and good product quality. The …

In this research, the interactive effect of grain and specimen sizes on the flow stress of sheet
metal in microforming is investigated via the tensile test of pure copper and numerical …

The springback behavior has been revealed to affect the dimensional accuracy of sheet
metal products significantly in the forming process. As the forming scale decreases to …

When the feature dimension of metal forming parts is scaled down to micro-scale, size
effects occur and the understanding of micro-forming becomes complex. In this paper, the …