Dear Colleagues,

It is a great honor to serve as the Guest Editor of a Special Issue of Materials that focuses on Forming Technologies and Mechanical Properties of Advanced Materials (2nd edition). I am pleased to inform you of the opportunity to submit a research or review paper to this Special Issue.

The plastic working of metallic and polymeric materials is today's ’most efficient and important manufacturing technology in industry. Lightweight materials, such as titanium alloys, aluminium alloys, ultra-high-strength steels, composites and polymers, are extensively used in automotive, aerospace, transportation, and construction industries, leading to increasing demand for advanced innovative forming technologies. Today, numerical simulation is highly focused and offers a better understanding of innovative forming processes. The computational methods and numerical analysis, coupled with the modeling of the structural evolution, allow us to reduce the time spent and eliminate experimental tests.

The aim of this Special Issue is to present the latest achievements in various modern forming processes and the latest research related to the computational methods for forming technologies. Research articles that focus on new developments in the formation of advanced materials are welcome for consideration of publication. I truly believe that this Special Issue will help the research community to enhance their understanding of the present status and trends of modern material-forming processes. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Aerospace and automotive metal-forming technologies,
• Computational techniques for metal-forming processes,
• Constitutive modeling of engineering materials,
• Durability and wear resistance of tools,
• Formability of materials,
• Friction and lubrication in metal-forming processes,
• High-speed forming technologies,
• Hydroforming processes,
• Microstructure and mechanical properties of advanced materials,
• Technology of incremental sheet forming.

Prof. Dr. Tomasz Trzepieciński
Prof. Dr. Valentin Ştefan Oleksik
Dr. Sherwan Mohammed Najm
Guest Editors

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• computational methods
• constitutive modeling
• finite element method
• friction
• incremental sheet forming
• lubrication
• material characterization
• metal forming
• microstructure
• plastic working
• sheet metal forming
• superplasticity