Recently several press builders developed gap and straight-sided metal forming presses
that utilise the mechanical servo-drive technology. The mechanical servo-drive press offers …

Mechanical joining processes by plastic deformation such as self-piercing riveting,
mechanical clinching and hemming for aluminium alloy and high strength steel sheets are …

Metal forming process is one of the oldest manufacturing techniques. It has witnessed the
shift from conventional to integration of smart systems for manufacturing of highly complex …

The demand for new processes to produce high strength parts, under appropriate cost and
productivity, has grown with weight reduction and crash safety improvements in automobile …

Stretch flangeability of an ultra high strength steel sheet having small ductility was increased
by improving quality of a sheared edge. The effect of the quality of the sheared edge on the …

Liquid-metal-induced embrittlement (LMIE) of galvanized hot stamping steel occurs due to
the simultaneous application of stress and the presence of a liquid Zn surface layer during …

Tailor die quenching in the hot stamping of quenchable steel sheets was developed to
produce ultra-high strength steel formed parts having strength distribution. Local portions of …

With the development of the modern manufacturing industry, especially that of high-speed
and high-precision machining, higher performances of computer numerical control (CNC) …

Advanced high-strength steels have been widely used to improve the crashworthiness and
lightweight of vehicles. Different from the popular cold stamping, hot forming of boron …

Multiple steel and aluminium alloy sheets were joined by self-pierce riveting. Self-pierce
riveting is attractive for joining multiple and dissimilar sheets, because joining of individual …