Applied Metal Forming
Including FEM Analysis

A professional reference for advanced courses in two of the most common manufacturing processes: metal forming and metal cutting.

Henry S. Valberg (Author)

9780521518239, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 31 March 2010

476 pages, 328 b/w illus. 9 tables 65 exercises
26 x 18.4 x 2.6 cm, 0.96 kg

Applied Metal Forming: Including FEM Analysis describes metal forming theory and how experimental techniques can be used to study any metal forming operation with great accuracy. For each primary class of processes, such as forging, rolling, extrusion, wiredrawing, and sheet-metal forming, it explains how FEA (Finite Element Analysis) can be applied with great precision to characterize the forming condition and in this way optimize the processes. FEA has made it possible to build very realistic FEM-models of any metal forming process, including complex three-dimensional forming operations, in which complex products are shaped by complex dies. Thus, using FEA it is now possible to visualize any metal forming process and to study strain, stresses, and other forming conditions inside the parts being manufactured as they develop throughout the process.

1. Characteristics of metal forming
2. Important metal forming processes
3. FEM-analysis of metal forming
4. Theory
5. Reduction and proportion of plastic zone
6. Deformations from velocity fields
7. Technological tests and physical simulation
8. Flow stress data
9. Formability and workability
10. Friction and friction models
11. Thermal effects
12. Experimental metal flow analysis
13. Theoretical methods of analysis
14. Finite element analysis
15. FEM-analysis of technological tests
16. Forging
17. FEM-analysis of forging
18. Extrusion
19. FEM-analysis of extrusion
20. Rolling
21. FEM-analysis of rolling
22. Drawing of wire, profiles and tubes
23. FEM-analysis of wiredrawing
24. Sheet-metal forming.

Subject Areas: Mechanical engineering & materials [TG], Metals technology / metallurgy [TDM], Industrial chemistry & manufacturing technologies [TD]