Metal Forming—Hot Forming Technologies of Light Alloy Tubes and Sheets
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Metal Casting, Forming and Heat Treatment".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2022) | Viewed by 19163
Special Issue Editors
Interests: novel processes of tubes; hot fluid forming; light alloys; constitutive modeling
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Tubular and panel structures of light alloys are extensively used in the body structures of transportation, gaining increasingly interest driven by fuel efficiency. These thin-walled parts are preferably hot formed due to the poor ductility of light alloys and springback of conventional cold forming. This Special Issue aims to publish the latest research on the novel processes and fundamental work of hot forming light alloy tubes or sheets. The materials can be aluminum alloys, magnesium alloys, titanium alloys or ultra-high strength steels. Composites are also within the scope of this Special Issue. Innovative techniques in the process, such as processing, tooling, and equipment, are strongly encouraged. In addition, constitutive modeling, numerical simulations, and fundamental testing, i.e., forming limit, are welcomed, but pure FE or theoretical work without experimental validation is not within the margin of this issue.
Prof. Dr. Zhubin He
Prof. Dr. Kailun Zheng
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- hot forming
- tubes
- sheets
- processes
- model
- microstructure
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