This short report summarises the proceedings of the international symposium "Precincts, people and places - forging new partnerships", held in Brisbane on 24 and 25 July 2009.

Labour economics is often taken by vivid discussions about the specificity of the labour market and the need to develop a different approach, away from the current standard microeconomics. What is often forgotten is that this was not always the case. Labour research in the interwar years was quite different from what we regard presently as labour economics, being much more broadly and loosely d...

This paper describes new conditions on parameters selection that lead to an efficient algorithm for forging ElGamal digital signature. Our work is inspired by Bleichenbacher’s ideas.

Oxygen content in aluminium alloys Al-3Fe or Al-8Fe-lZr (wt%) maked from air atomized powders by a sinter-forging

Abstract Forgings are produced in several process steps, the so-called forging sequence. The design of efficient sequences is a very complex and iterative development process. In order to automate this reduce time, method presented here, which automatically generates multi-stage for different geometries on basis component geometry (STL file). was developed closed die forging. individual modules...

In a closed die forging process, it is impossible to form complex shapes in one stage, and thus it becomes necessary to use preform dies. In the present study, Backward Deformation Method and FE simulation via ABAQUS software has been used in order to design preform die of the H-shaped parts. In the Backward Deformation Method, the final shape of the part is considered as a starting point and u...

The paper reports an investigation into the forging of solid powder circular disc with large slenderness ratio, between two flat dies. The deformation pattern during the operation is influenced by many factors, which interact with each other in a complex manner. The decisive factors are the interfacial conditions, initial relative density of the preform and the geometry of the preform. An attem...

BACKGROUND This paper describes the shaping of freestanding objects out of metallic structures in the nano- and submicron size. The technique used, called nanoforging, is very similar to the macroscopic forging process. RESULTS With spring actuated tools produced by focused ion beam milling, controlled forging is demonstrated. With only three steps, a conical bar stock is transformed to a fla...

Three important parameters in designing a closed die for forging process are ratio of width to flash thickness, ratio of  height to billet diameter and the friction factor. In this paper the influences of these parameters on the required force for the forging and percentage of die filling were investigated. It was found that by controlling the flash dimension, the material loss is reduced and t...