Abstract: Despite the tremendous effort of researchers and manufacturing engineers in improving the predictability of the air bending process, there is still a strong need for comprehensive and dependable prediction models. Currently, ...

Abstract: Traditionally, industrial sheet metal forming technologies use rigid metallic tools to plastically deform the blanks. In order to reduce the tooling costs, rubber or flexible tools can be used together with one rigid ...

Abstract: This paper presents a study on cold microdrawing of pure magnesium for biomedical applications, where hollow sinking drawing of microtubes of 820 μm diameter and wall thickness around 100 μm was used, varying drawing speeds ...