Publisher's Synopsis
Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).The collection of 282 peer reviewed papers aims to promote the interest for all types of materials and all topics connected to Material Forming. The papers are grouped as follows: Chapter 1: Formability of Metallic MaterialsChapter 2: Forging and Rolling; Chapter 3: Composites Forming Processes;Chapter 4: Semi-Solid Processes; Chapter 5: Light Weight Design and Energy Efficiency in Metal Forming; Chapter 6: New and Advanced Numerical Strategies for Material Forming; Chapter 7: Extrusion and Drawing; Chapter 8: Friction and Wear in Material Processing; Chapter 9: Nano-Structured Materials and Microforming; Chapter 10: Inverse Analysis Optimization and Stochastic Approaches; Chapter 11: Innovative Joining by Forming Technologies; Chapter 12: Multiscale & Continuum Constitutive Modelling; Chapter 13: Incremental and Sheet Metal Forming; Chapter 14: Sheet-Bulk-Metal Forming; Chapter 15: Heat Transfer Modelling; Chapter 16: Structures, Properties and Processing of Polymers; Chapter 17: Non-Conventional Processes;Chapter 18: Machining and Cutting; Chapter 19: Integrated Design, Modelling and Reliability Assessment in Forming (I-DMR);Chapter 20: Finite Element Technology and Multi-Scale Methods for Composites, Metallic Sheets and Coating Models; Chapter 21: Intelligent Computation in Forming Processes.
