Modeling and Experimental Analysis of Metal Forming and Cutting: 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

Metal forming and cutting processes have been a very important branch of industries for many years. Recently, in addition to the already-known methods, new technologies have been introduced into production. The products after these processes are used in almost all areas of our lives, from cars, ships, and aircraft to washing machines and computers and knee and hip joint prostheses. Increasingly, products made with traditional treatments, such as turning and grinding, are being replaced by plastically deformed products.

The development of metal forming and cutting technology in recent years has necessitated the improvement of analysis methods applied for these processes. For a long time, difficulties associated with the strongly nonlinear nature of such a process did not allow us to reach precise and universal methods of its analysis. One of the basic practical problems is to determine the optimal parameters of the forming and cutting processes to obtain a high-quality product with minimum manufacturing costs. In recent years, extremely rapid development has been taking place in the field of continuous media theory, plasticity theory, and numerical methods of mechanics, with the progress of computational systems and specialized software. New methods of analysis of physical phenomena accompanying the deformation process are being introduced, which allow states of displacement, strain, and stress to be determined with greater accuracy, both during and after processing. New metals and alloys are being introduced into production, as well as newer methods of determining material constants and new algorithms for approximate solution of motion equations and nonlinear contact. This creates conditions in which analyzing complex problems of plastic forming has become possible.

Therefore, metal forming and cutting processes are of interest to scientists and researchers from universities, research institutes, and industry from all over the world. The first edition of the Special Issue “Modeling and Experimental Analysis of Metal Forming and Cutting”, which was successfully closed, has proved that. We are now organizing a second edition of the Special Issue and hope it continues to serve as a forum to present the state of the art and disseminate the latest developments, innovations, and progress in this field of science and technology.

Original papers are solicited on various technologies and processes of metal forming, such as rolling; forging; sheet forming; incremental forming; extrusion; drawing; joining, hydroforming, micro- and nano-forming, and mechanical cutting—shear-slitting—punching, and guillotining; and non-mechanical cutting, such as laser cutting. Articles and reviews dealing with the results of a very wide spectrum of research with material modeling, constitutive models, contact problems, deformation mechanics, process and system modeling, numerical solutions and simulations, modeling and measurements of physical phenomena during manufacturing processes to predict and evaluate product quality, material behavior during deformation, and properties of the final products after deformation are very welcome.

Prof. Dr. Leon Kukiełka
Guest Editor

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• metal forming
• cutting
• constitutive models
• contact mechanics
• FEM
• SPH
• plasticity
• deformation mechanics
• modeling and testing of material properties
• process and system modeling