Applied Metal Forming

Including FEM Analysis

Henry S. Valberg

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN:
  9780521518239
• eBook ISBN:
  9780511730894
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Engineering General
• Index: Technology & Engineering

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Applied Metal Forming
• 1 Characteristics of Metal Forming
• 2 Important Metal Forming Processes
• 3 FEA of Metal Forming
• 4 Theory
• 5 Reduction and Proportions of the Plastic Zone
• 6 Deformations from the Velocity Field
• 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 FEA of Technological Tests
• 16 Forging
• 17 FEA of Forging
• 18 Extrusion
• 19 FEA of Extrusion
• 20 Rolling
• 21 FEA of Rolling
• 22 Drawing of Wire, Profiles, and Tubes
• 23 FEA of Wiredrawing
• 24 Sheet-Metal Forming
• Index