Abstract: Metal-polymer-metal laminate is an emerging material that has many potential applications. The laminated structure consists of two outer layers of sheet metal and a polymeric center core. The ...

Abstract: Tube bending is a widely used manufacturing process in the aerospace, automotive, and various other industries. During tube bending, considerable in-plane distortion and thickness variation occurs. ...

Abstract: This paper presents an upper bound approach to analyze axisymmetric extrusion processes. A cylindrical and a spherical coordinate system are defined to represent the die geometry and the velocity ...

Abstract: Deformable coated materials hold promises for numerous new technologies. In this research, extrusion of polymer coated metal rods was investigated. Analytical models based on upper bound method ...