Advances in Sheet Metal Forming and Structures
A special issue of Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing (ISSN 2504-4494).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2021) | Viewed by 6269
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recent developments in the field of sheet metal focus on emerging forming techniques to produce parts with non-traditional operations, both in terms of the forming process and the produced structure’s design and material. The global efforts in manufacturing energy reduction have directed research efforts towards sheet metal forming processes without major dies and encouraged the exploration of non-traditional forming operations. In addition, the continuously evolving computational capabilities have enabled better analysis and understanding of the sheet metal material, structure, forming forces and limits, as well as the manufacturing process parameters.
The need to establish metamorphic manufacturing schemes to meet customized demand led to the development of sheet metal structures that can shift shape in different stages of the production. As a result, the manufacturing processes need to be as flexible and as accommodating as possible.
This Special Issue is dedicated to shedding light on recent developments in the field of sheet metal forming and structures, with a focus on emerging manufacturing processes along with the computational and modeling tools utilized to facilitate such advancements.
We are particularly interested in (but not limited to) contributions that focus on topics such as:
- Die-less sheet metal manufacturing processes;
- Metamorphic manufacturing in sheet metal operations;
- New sheet metal structures design, including adaptive sheet metal;
- New approaches to modeling and analyzing forming limits;
- Functional-based design and fabrication of sheet metal;
- Strategies to increase geometrical forming accuracy;
- Hybrid sheet metal forming operations that employ additive manufacturing.
Dr. Ala Qattawi
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- finite element analysis
- die-less fabrication
- feature-based metal fabrication
- adaptive sheet metal structures
- formability limit
- hybrid sheet metal operations
- metamorphic manufacturing
