Developments in the manufacture of curved extruded profiles - Past, present, and future

Light Metal Age

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 22-32

  Klaus, Alexander ^a,b   Kleiner, Matthias ^a,b  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b University of Dortmund ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVATURES; EXTRUDED PROFILES; LOW-VOLUME PRODUCTION; NON-LINEAR PROFILES;

CIVIL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXTRUSION; LIGHT WEIGHT STRUCTURES; PROCESS CONTROL; SENSORS; STRUCTURAL FRAMES; STRUCTURAL LOADS;

ALUMINUM;

EID: 4644236090     PISSN: 00243345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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