Special issue: Design, control and maintenance of sheet metal forming processes

International Journal of Materials and Product Technology 32(4) 2008

• On the inferences from the analyses of strain distributions in drawn sheet metal products
• Influence of media on process stability in sheet metal hydroforming
• Single point incremental forming
• Simulation of cage roll forming process of ERW pipes
• Study on the influence of mandrel type on copper tube rotary draw bending
• Versatile microforming press
• Plastic instability in complex strain paths and finite element simulation for localised necking prediction in sheet metal forming technology
• Architecture for a neural expert system for condition-based maintenance of blanking
• A method for force reduction in heavy duty bending
• Intelligent control scheme of divided blank holder for square-cup deep-drawing process