Books by Keyword: Formability

Description: The 29th International ESAFORM Conference on Material Forming (ESAFORM 2026, Thessaloniki, Greece, from 27 to 29 April 2026) is a joint scientific event of the oldest and most prestigious Mechanical Engineering academic schools in Greece, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the National Technical University of Athens, respectively. The conference publication contains sixteent chapters the topicaly related with 16 Mini-Symposia around the following topics: additive manufacturing, composites forming processes, extrusion and drawing, forging and rolling, formability of metallic materials, friction and wear in metal forming, incremental and sheet metal forming, innovative joining by forming technologies, optimization and inverse analysis in forming, machining, cutting and severe plastic deformation, material behaviour modelling, new and advanced numerical strategies for material forming, non-conventional processes, polymer processing and thermo-mechanical properties, sustainability in material forming, and advanced metal casting. The edition will be useful for a wide range of specialists in structural materials forming processes.

Description: Topics covered by this special edition include to: Development of new and optimization of existing forging and hot forming; mathematical description and parameterisation of flow, damage and fracture behaviour of new workpiece and tool materials; mathematical description and parameterisation of friction, heat transfer and wear in forging and rolling; development of numerical methods, formulations and algorithms for simulation of forging and rolling processes; validation of simulation models on industrial examples; computer-aided process control. Furthermore, the results of the Collaborative Research Centre 1153 on Tailored Forming are presented. This edition, without a doubt, will be of great benefit to the rich daily machinery engineers and researchers whose activities are related to metalworking.

Description: The main topics of this special edition are: mechanical fastening operations; joints based on friction welding; hybrid joining processes; innovative joining processes, including the forming or pre-forming of the materials to be joined; computational methods for joining process simulation; applications of inverse analysis to material characterisation in joining conditions, etc. The edition will be helpful for specialists in mechanical engineering.

Description: This special edition presents a collection of contributions addressing the formability of metallic materials, with particular attention to their capacity to undergo plastic deformation while minimising damage and defects in the final product. The mechanisms influencing forming processes, such as plastic flow localisation, fracture, and springback, are presented among other phenomena of interest. The contributions encompass experimental, theoretical, and numerical investigations aimed at advancing understanding of the interplay among material properties, mechanical and thermal loading conditions, and other environmental constraints that govern the formability of metallic materials. The edition will be of interest to many specialists in mechanical engineering.

Description: In metal forming, friction, lubrication, and wear are of utmost importance. On that account, for optimum process design, improving formability and enhancing tool life, a better understanding and an accurate prediction of friction/wear in forming processes are necessary. In this special issue, different aspects of tribology in cold/hot sheet metal forming, forging and rolling are discussed. The book will be helpful to specialists in metal forming technologies.

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This book contains papers presented at the 25th International Conference on Material Forming (ESAFORM 2022, 27-29 April 2022, Portugal). The European Scientific Association for material FORMing - ESAFORM - is a non-profit scientific association founded in January 1997 with the aim of propagating knowledge and advances in topics connected to forming processes for all types of structural materials. The present volume covers a wide range of research results and engineering solutions in technologies of materials forming and will be useful for many researchers and engineers from the machinery production area.

Description: This special volume includes the papers presented at the First Asia Pacific Symposium on Technology of Plasticity (APSTP 2017, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, November 22-25, 2017) and covers the results of research and development in the area of the metal plasticity, metal forming processes and related technologies.

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This volume of Key Engineering Materials contains papers presented at the 16th Metal Forming International Conference held in Kraków, Poland on September 18-21, 2016. Metal Forming 2016 is the 16th in a series of International Conferences organized by AGH University of Science and Technology since 1974. From 1994 to 2010 the Conference was organized biannually, jointly with the University of Birmingham, UK. The latter was replaced by the University of Toyohashi in 2010, when the Conference went, for the first time, to Japan. Metal Forming 2012 was organized in Kraków by AGH University of Science and Technology, together with the University of Toyohashi and, for the first time, by the University of Palermo, Italy, which had joined the Organization team, and hosted the Conference in 2014.

The papers published in this volume represent the state-of-the-art in the field of metal forming science and technology. The contents of papers submitted by authors representing universities, research institutes and industry from all over the world demonstrate the results of a very wide spectrum of research topics, from micro- and nano- forming, to the numerical modelling of processes and systems. Manuscripts cover a wide range of materials from metal powders, titanium and magnesium alloys to advanced high strength steels and multiphase materials.

Description: Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 18th International ESAFORM Conference on Material Forming (ESAFORM 2015), April 15-17, 2015, Graz, Austria.
The 252 papers are grouped as follows:
Chapter 1: Formability of Metallic Materials;
Chapter 2: Forging and Rolling;
Chapter 3: Composites Forming Processes;
Chapter 4: Friction and Wear in Material Processing;
Chapter 5: Continuum Constitutive Modelling and Scale Transition Modelling;
Chapter 6: Nano-Structured Materials and Micro Forming;
Chapter 7: Additive Manufacturing and Non-Conventional Processes;
Chapter 8: Structures, Properties and Processing of Polymers (and Biomass Based Materials);
Chapter 9: Integrated Design, Modelling and Reliability Assessment in Forming (I-DMR);
Chapter 10: Small Scale Plasticity, Damage and Fracture;
Chapter 11: Intelligent Computation in Forming Processes;
Chapter 12: Incremental and Sheet Metal Forming;
Chapter 13: Machining and Cutting;
Chapter 14: New and Advanced Numerical Strategies for Material Forming;
Chapter 15: Optimization and Inverse Analysis in Forming;
Chapter 16: Innovative Joining by Forming Technologies;
Chapter 17: Heat Transfer Modelling;
Chapter 18: Semi-Solid Processes;
Chapter 19: Extrusion and Drawing;
Chapter 20: Energy Efficient Solutions in Material Forming

Description: Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 15th International Conference on Metal Forming 2014, September 21-24, 2014, Palermo, Italy .
The 159 papers are grouped as follows:
1. COATINGS AND SURFACES,
2. EXTRUSION AND DRAWING,
3. FORGING,
4. FORMABILITY,
5. INCREMENTAL FORMING,
6. JOINING AND BONDING,
7. MAGNESIUM FORMING,
8. NUMERICAL MODELLING,
9. TUBE AND HYDRO FORMING,
10. OPTIMISATION,
11. OTHER PROCESSES,
12. POWDER AND ADVANCED MATERIALS,
13. ROLLING,
14. SHEARING,
15. SHEET METAL FORMING,
16. TITANIUM FORMING