Plasticity and Metal Forming

Dear Colleagues,

Plasticity and metal forming are important methods of metal processing in the modern manufacturing industry. The progress of plasticity and metal forming and processing, including the control and characterization of materials in all processing steps and their final performance analysis, is the scope of this Special Issue. Nowadays, with the extensive use of new materials and composite materials in the manufacturing industry, the requirements for plasticity and metal forming processes are continuously increasing to meet the requirements of lightweight products. At the same time, breakthroughs have been made in the development of a series of technologies related to plasticity and metal forming, such as numerical control processing, artificial intelligence, and integrated manufacturing, and new technologies and processes for plasticity and metal forming are constantly emerging.

This Special Issue welcomes articles that focus on new plasticity and metal processing and manufacturing methods and their impact on the performance of end products. Fully controllable fast and low-cost processes especially remain of interest, with a high implementation potential in plasticity and metal forming that allows producing high-performance products.

Dr. Gaoshen Cai
Dr. Yao Wang
Guest Editors

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