Advances in Material Forming: 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

We cordially invite you to submit your research to this Special Issue of the Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing published by MDPI on “Advances in Material Forming: 2nd Edition”. Recent advances made in the field of materials such as advanced high-strength steel, higher grades of aluminum, and Inconel alloys are directing current research trends toward more efficient, cost-effective, and novel forms of manufacturing. In addition, the automotive and aerospace industries are driving the need for new lightweight parts. This is has led to the creation of new manufacturing processes, i.e., non-traditional approaches to manufacturing and forming such parts. There are challenges to deforming high-strength materials using these non-traditional approaches which result in different stress states compared to conventional processes and can change the characterizations of these materials. Therefore, there is a significant need for experimentation, analysis, and simulation to formulate and evaluate theories which can address these new processes and materials.

For this Special Issue, we invite researchers to submit their new and precious work related to the use of novelty in manufacturing processes, uncovering the mechanics, and carrying out computational analyses, process development, and characterization of the processing materials used within the formation of metals and materials. The work should include theoretical, numerical, or experimental approaches, either separately or in combination, to provide solutions to the challenges outlined above.

We encourage you to submit work related to the following research areas:

• Materials testing and characterization;
• Sub-specimen characterization;
• Testing of additively manufactured materials;
• Defects in high-strength material forming;
• Limits in material forming;
• Constitutive modeling;
• Multiscale forming/simulations;
• Damage modeling;
• Rolling and preforming processes;
• Sheet metal forming and challenges;
• Tube forming;
• Bulk metal forming, including forging, wire drawing, and extrusion;
• Novel processes including hybrid forming processes;
• Non-traditional approaches such as die-less, electric-assisted, high-speed forming, and additive manufacturing;
• Warm and hot forming;
• Dynamic testing and crash analysis;
• Process monitoring, optimization, and control;
• Data-driven forming 4.0.

Prof. Dr. Chetan P. Nikhare
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1800 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• forming
• rolling
• forging
• wire drawing
• extrusion

• Advances in Material Forming in Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing (18 articles)