The springback phenomenon that occur in thin metal sheets after forming is mainly a stress driven problem, and the magnitude is roughly proportional to the ratio between the magnitude of the residual stresses after forming and Young’s modulus. An accurate prediction of residual stresses puts, however, high demands on the material modeling. A phenomenological plasticity model is made up of sever...

The fundamental mechanical formulation is recalled for simulation of metal forming processes. The basic principles of 3-dimensional finite element discretization and of time integration are summarized. Several important numerical developments for efficient computation of large plastic deformation are briefly described. Various fields of applications to real processes are reviewed. Illustrative ...

Thermoforming is a well-known manufacturing process in the productions of various plastic household and industrial solutions. The heating of a plastic sheet allows the plastic to soften and within its forming window temperature the sheet can replicate a required shape when pressed against a mould. Hence, the heating process is an important thermoforming stage that determine uniformity of the ma...

We employ x-ray scattering on sheared colloidal suspensions and mode coupling theory to study structure factor distortions of glass-forming systems under shear. We find a transition from quadrupolar elastic distortion at small strains to quadrupolar and hexadecupolar modes in the stationary state. The latter are interpreted as signatures of plastic rearrangements in homogeneous, thermalized sys...

Increasing of strain rate during forming of semi products or products is one of the ways of production intensification. Therefore an attention is paid to the study of the influence of the strain rate on the material behaviour in the deformation process, but also on the methodology of evaluation of formability at increased strain rates (including impact) 1,2 . In general, it applies that increas...

Suspensions of the faecal indicator bacteria Escherichia coli and Enterococcus faecalis were incubated in full sunlight in plastic bottles containing either (i) air-equilibrated (oxygenated) water or (ii) anaerobic (deoxygenated) water. A rapid decrease in cfu ml-1 was observed for actively growing and stationary phase cells of both types of faecal bacteria when illuminated under aerobic condit...

electromagnetic forming is a high energy rate forming process. in this process, an electromagnetic lorentz body force is used for deformation of products. in this article, electromagnetic forming process was simulated for assembly of parts as an innovative method. in this research work, the effect of important parameters of process such as discharge energy, radius and width of rectangular groov...

Fiber reinforced plastics (FRPs) are increasingly being used to reinforce the steel or aluminum automotive structure components. Currently, these multi-material applications realized in general by a multi-stage manufacturing with considerable cost increase. To avoid this, new hybrid forming method has been proposed and developed. It uses half liquid FRP as pressure media hydro-form sheet metals...