Hydroforming process optimization of aluminum alloy tube using intelligent control technique

International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture

Volumn 46, Issue 11 SPEC. ISS., 2006, Pages 1207-1211

  Manabe, Ken ichi ^a   Suetake, Masamitsu ^a   Koyama, Hiroshi ^b   Yang, Ming ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aluminum alloy tube; Fuzzy logic; Loading path; Optimization; Tube hydroforming

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ALUMINUM ALLOYS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FORMING; FUZZY SETS; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION;

ALUMINUM ALLOY TUBES; FUZZY CONTROL ALGORITHMS; LOADING PATHS; TUBE HYDROFORMING;

TUBES (COMPONENTS);

EID: 33746253166     PISSN: 08906955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmachtools.2006.01.028     Document Type: Article

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