Optimization methods for the tube hydroforming process applied to advanced high-strength steels with experimental verification

Journal of Materials Processing Technology

Volumn 209, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 110-123

  Abedrabbo, Nader ^a   Worswick, Michael ^a   Mayer, Robert ^b   van Riemsdijk, Isadora ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

^c DOFASCO INC   (Canada)

Author keywords

Formability; Forming limit diagrams; HEEDS; High strength steels; LS DYNA; Optimization; Tube hydroforming

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); ERROR ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTS; FORMING; OPTIMIZATION; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

FORMABILITY; FORMING LIMIT DIAGRAMS; HEEDS; HIGH-STRENGTH STEELS; LS-DYNA; TUBE HYDROFORMING;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 53949086490     PISSN: 09240136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2008.01.060     Document Type: Article

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