Special Issue "Advanced Forming Technologies: Status Quo, Challenges and Prospects"

Dear Colleagues,

Throughout the development history of material processing, plastic processing has comprehensively developed from forging to stamping, extrusion, rolling, and spinning. The forming medium has developed from solid to liquid to a gaseous state. The processes have developed from single-step to multi-step forming, and to incremental forming. The forming conditions have gradually developed from a single temperature field to multi-energy coupling environments, such as electric fields, vibration fields, and magnetic fields. Additionally, forming process simulation has gradually developed into a macro-meso-micro-dimension and organization–property–size-integrated process. In the future, faced with the world’s technological development and human progress, advanced forming technologies will be further explored in such key fields as extreme forming, composite forming, and intelligent forming. All of these issues shall be the focuses of researchers in advanced forming, acting as an important support for transforming the world’s science and technology in the future.

This Special Issue will focus on metal forming technology, some new metal forming processes, multi-scale modeling, material failure behavior, microstructure and performance, and studies on the influence of process parameters on the forming process will be welcomed.

Prof. Dr. Tao Wang
Guest Editor

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• extreme forming
• composite forming
• intelligent forming
• numerical simulation
• microstructure and performance