General motors' quick plastic forming process

Advances in Superplasticity and Superplastic Forming

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 9-20

  Schroth, James G ^a  

^a GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; AUTOMATION; AUTOMOBILE PARTS AND EQUIPMENT; GEOMETRY; LUBRICANTS; OPTIMIZATION; STRUCTURAL PANELS;

ALUMINUM PANELS; HOT BLOW FORMING; SUPERPLASTIC FORMING (SPF);

PLASTICS FORMING;

EID: 3042741770     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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