Electrically Assisted Forming Modeling and Control /

• Main Authors: Salandro, Wesley A. (Author), Jones, Joshua J. (Author), Bunget, Cristina (Author), Mears, Laine (Author), Roth, John T. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing,
• Subjects: Engineering.; Manufacturing industries.; Machines.; Tools.; Industrial engineering.; Manufacturing, Machines, Tools.; Operating Procedures, Materials Treatment.

Maximizing reader insights into the latest research findings and applications of Electrically-Assisted Forming (EAF) – whereby metals are formed under an electric current field – this book explains how such a process produces immediate improved formability of metals beyond the extent of thermal soft...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction to Electrically-Assisted Forming
• Bulk Modeling Methodology for Electrically-Assisted Manufacturing
• The Electroplastic Effect
• Comprehensive EAF Modeling
• Experimental Findings for EAF
• Contact Effects of EAF
• Microstructural Effects on EAF
• Phase distribution Effects on EAF
• Analysis of EAF Modeling Sensitivity and Robustness
• Broader Impacts of EAF
• Tooling design considerations
• Additional Applications of Electrically-Assisted Manufacturing (EAM)
• Control design for Electrically-Assisted Forming
• Cost and Energy Analysis.