The research is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China ((No. 50205013 and No. 50175060). Special thanks are expressed to the Mr. Guoji Li from Science Forming Technology Corp. (SFTC) for his assistance and advice on the simulation work of.this paper.
Based on rigid-plastic finite element method, a skew rolling process of stepped part is simulated. Considering nodesaving and effective remeshing, the tetrahedron solid elements are used to discrete workpiece. The wor...
The authors would like to thank the National Natural Science Foundation of China for Distinguished Young Scholar (No.50225518), NSFC (59775055) and Doctorate Foundation of Northwestern Polytechnical University for support to enable the perform ing of this research.
Tube inversion including free deformation under conical die is an advanced forming process for manufacturing complicated thin-walled parts with high strength/weight ratio, high efficiency, and good flexibility for siz...
This work was supported by the Brain Korea 2lProject and the Grallt of Post-Doc Program, KyungpookNational University (1999).
Some techniques such as die surface description, contact judgement algorithm and remeshing are proposed to improve the robustness of the numerical solution. Based on these techniques, a three-dimensional rigid-plastic...