Product miniaturization is an emerging trend for facilitating product usage, enabling unique
product functions to be implemented in micro-scaled geometries and features, and further …

Micro-manufacturing has received good attention globally in terms of its manufacturing
methods/processes. One of the most popular micro-manufacturing processes is micro …

Surface roughening is one of the most fundamental issues which greatly affects the plastic
deformation and ductile fracture behavior of ultra-thin sheet materials. The present study …

Plastic deformation at the macroscopic scale has been widely exploited in industrial practice
in order to obtain desired shape and control the requested properties of metallic alloy parts …

With the increasing demand for light weight design in industries such as aerospace and
automotive, sheet metallic materials with high strength and low density have been …

When the geometry of metal deformed part is scaled down to micro-scale, the understanding
and prediction of micro deformation behaviour becomes difficult. This is because the …

To clarify the fracture mechanism of metal foils, the ductile fracture and the free surface
roughening behaviors for pure copper foils are focused on in this study. Pure copper foils …

There are various processes practiced in a market for manufacturing axisymmetrical cup
with significant forming depth among which deep drawing process is most prompt. The deep …

Microforming process is a promising micromanufacturing technology for producing
microparts due to its high efficiency, low production cost and good product quality. The …

When the feature dimension of metal forming parts is scaled down to micro-scale, size
effects occur and the understanding of micro-forming becomes complex. In this paper, the …