Plastic forming processes in metals
Also listed as: מבוא לתהליכי ייצור פלסטי במתכות
Plasticity applied to forming: forging, rolling, extrusion, drawing and sheet work, with the force models and the limits that decide whether a part can be made at all.
- Semester
- Semester B
- Weekly hours
- 3h
- Counts as
- Department electives
- Interest areas
- Structures and computational mechanics · Mechanical design
Comes after
- Mechanics of solids 1
Opens up
Nothing in this catalogue lists it as a prerequisite.
What it covers
Topics
- Plasticity fundamentals: yield criteria, flow rules, strain hardening, effective stress and strain
- Bulk forming: forging, rolling, extrusion, wire drawing
- Force analysis by slab, upper-bound and slip-line methods
- Sheet forming: deep drawing, bending, stretching
- Forming limit diagrams and formability
- Friction and lubrication in forming
- Hot against cold work, defects and tooling
Results worth carrying out
Flow curve
von Mises effective stress
Rolling force, slab analysis
Figures worth knowing
- Forming limit diagram
- Slip-line fields
- True stress-strain curves
- Process schematics
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