Advanced Methods in Material Forming

Constitutive Modeling for Metals.- Material Forming and Dimensioning Problems: Expectations from the Car Industry.- Optimization of the Phenomenological Constitutive Models Parameters Using Genetic Algorithms.- A Metamodel Based Optimisation Algorithm for Metal Forming Processes.- Modelling of Permeability and Mechanical Dispersion in a Porous Medium and Comparison with Experimental Measurements.- Three-Dimensional Bending of Profiles by Stress Superposition.- Specimen for a Novel Concept of Biaxial Tension Test - Design and Optimisation.- Applications of a Recently Proposed Anisotropic Yield Function to Sheet Forming.- Modelling of the Forming Limit Diagrams Using the Finite Element Method.- Recent Advances in Process Design for Sheet and Tube Hydroforming.- Evaluating the Press Stiffness in Realistic Operating Conditions.- Fast Material Working: Wire Drawing.- 3D-ECAP of Square Aluminium Billets.- Computer-Aided Tool Path Optimization for Single Point Incremental Sheet Forming.- Study on the Achievable Accuracy in Single Point Incremental Forming.- On the Finite Element Simulation of Thermal Phenomena in Machining Processes.- Numerical Simulation of Wire Coating Pseudoplastic and Viscoplastic Fluids.- Experimental Study on Behaviour of Woven Composites in Thermo-Stamping Under Nonlinear Temperature Trajectories.- Thixoforming of Steel: Experiments on Thermal Effects.- Study of the Liquid Fraction and Thermophysical Properties of Semi-Solid Steels and Application to the Simulation of Inductive Heating for Thixoforming.- Simulation of Secondary Operations and Springback - The Implicit Shell Provides a Precise and Rapid Solution.