Aluminum alloys are widely used in many industries, including aerospace, automotive, civil,
and electrical engineering. When compared to pure aluminum, most aluminum alloys have …

Additive manufacturing (AM) is known to generate large magnitudes of residual stresses
(RS) within builds due to steep and localized thermal gradients. In the current state of …

In recent years, the machining deformation of titanium alloy frame parts has become a major
research issue in the field of aviation manufacture. Through the generation mechanism, the …

Cold pilgering has been considered as one of the preferred fabrication technologies for high-
strength titanium alloy tube. However, the complex multi-pass thermo-mechanical loading …

Tungsten heavy alloys (WHAs) are metal-metal matrix composites which are suitable
candidates for defence and nuclear applications. In order to meet the geometric complexity …

Machining-induced residual stress is the dominant contributing factor to distortion of Mg-Li
alloy thin-walled parts. Phase transition takes a crucial role on inducing the residual stress …

Hybrid metal and extrusion bonding (HYB) is an emerging solid-state welding technique that
was developed about ten years ago. HYB exploits the fundamental idea of the well …

Manufacturing structural monolithic components for the aerospace market often involves
machining distortion, which entails high costs and material and energy waste in industry …

Monolithic aluminum alloy parts are highly required in the aeronautical industry, but they
show significant geometrical distortion after the machining process. This work investigated …

Welded components contain complex residual stress fields which are important to quantify
when assessing their structural integrity. Often such assessments involve finite element …