Several authors described experiments aimed particularly at determination of demandingness of piercing processes, namely with respect to piercing mandrels or their stress load, similarly as e.g. at technology of piercing of extremely high blanks Skripalenko et al. 1 or piercing of continuously cast ingots from alloyed steel 2 . Komori 3 dealt with mathematical simulation of piercing according t...

There are a wide range of important applications for metal tube materials in various fields. The production process of high-frequency longitudinally welded pipe includes first using a roller to coil the long steel strips of a certain size into a cylinder shape, and then join them by heating the steel materials at the welding edge with a high-frequency welding machine — Fig. 1. The processes inc...

This paper refers to some simulation tests concerning the formability and springback of a U-shaped part manufactured from tailor welded stripes. The final geometry of the obtained part is seriously affected by springback phenomenon. This paper work is trying to prove out the important role samples dimension has on the springback phenomenon. The influence of the samples width on the tailor welde...

Two welded (respectively virtual) link diagrams are homotopic if one may be transformed into the other by a sequence of extended Reidemeister moves, classical Reidemeister moves, and self crossing changes. In this paper, we extend Milnor’s μ and μ̄ invariants to welded and virtual links. We conclude this paper with several examples, and compute the μ invariants using the Magnus expansion and Pol...

Two welded (respectively virtual) link diagrams are homotopic if one may be transformed into the other by a sequence of extended Reidemeister moves, classical Reidemeister moves, and self crossing changes. In this paper, we extend Milnor’s μ and μ̄ invariants to welded and virtual links. We conclude this paper with several examples, and compute the μ invariants using the Magnus expansion and Pol...

†Hoogovens Research and Development, Product Application Centre, P.O. Box 10000, 1970 CA IJmuiden, The Netherlands, e-mail: [email protected] *University of Twente, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands, e-mail: [email protected] Automotive Tailored Blanks, P.O. Box 505, 3750 GM Bunschoten, The Netherlands, e-mail: bstokman@automoti...

For the fatigue design of a large scaled welded structure, the readily accessibility of various engineering tools is required for the static, fatigue, dynamic analysis and parametric study. In this paper, a multi-agent system is suggested for the development of distributed, open and intelligent design system. The developed design system is applied to assess cumulative fatigue damage on the weld...

The detection and classification of the defects in the welded components are very important in order to ensure the structural integrity of the fabricated components of the test blanket module (TBM). RAFM steel is used as structural material for the TBM, therefore ultrasonic based technique are the most suitable for high sensitive defect detection. In this work ultrasonic pulse echo technique is...

For hot extrusions of magnesium alloy sheets, Dissimilar AZ80 and AZ31 were used, in which AZ80 was placed on advancing side and AZ31 on retreating side, using friction stir butt welding with different process parameters. Some defect-free welded joints with good weld surfaces could be obtained with some suitable welding conditions. The maximum tensile strength of welded joint which is 225.5 MPa...