Free-Bending - A new bending technique in the hydroforming process chain

Journal of Materials Processing Technology

Volumn 167, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 302-308

  Gantner, Peter ^a   Bauer, Herbert ^a   Harrison, David K ^b   De Silva, Anjali K M ^b  

^a AALEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bending; FEM; Free Bending; Simulation

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FORMING; GEOMETRY; PREFORMING; PROCESS ENGINEERING; SIMULATION; SPLINES;

BENDING GEOMETRY; FREE-BENDING; HYDROFORMING; PROCESS CHAIN;

BENDING (DEFORMATION);

EID: 23844513478     PISSN: 09240136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2005.05.052     Document Type: Article

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