NSF Workshop on

Composite Sheet Forming

September 5-7, 2001

Lowell, MA

U.S.A.

Organized by

Patrick Blanchard

Ford Motor Company

pblanch3@ford.com

Jian Cao

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Northwestern University

jcao@northwestern.edu

Julie Chen

Dept. of Mechanical Engineering

Univ. of Massachusetts, Lowell

Julie_chen@uml.edu

Andrew Long

School of Mechanical, Materials, Manufacturing Engineering & Management

University of Nottingham

Andrew.Long@nottingham.ac.uk

Sponsored by

THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Workshop on Composite Sheet Forming

CONTENTS

Executive Summary

Workshop Report

Briefs

Presentations

Acknowledgement

Appendices

Agenda

List of Participants

Photos

Workshop on Composite Sheet Forming

BRIEFS

Akkerman, Remko	University of Twente
Boisse, Philippe	ENSAM
Cao, Jian	Northwestern University
Chen, Julie	University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Elsayed, Elsayed	Rutgers University
Granville, Dana	Army
Guillerman, Olivier	Vistagy
Klintworth, John	MSC Software
Laananen, David	Arizona State University
Langer, H. and Pickett, Anthony	ESI Gmbh
Long, Andrew	University of Nottingham
Loos, Alfred and Batra, Romesh	Virginia Tech
Mohajerjasbi, Soheil	Boeing
Pickett, Anthony	ESI Gmbh
Potter, Kevin	University of Bristol
Schwer, Len (part 1)	Schwer Eng. Consulting Services
Schwer, Len (part 2)	Schwer Eng. Consulting Services
Sharma, Shrikant	Cambridge University
Sherwood, James and Chen, Julie	University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Wakeman, Martyn	EPFL
Yu, Tongxi	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

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PRESENTATIONS

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Part I: Material Testing (MT)
Keynote: Andrew Long	University of Nottingham
MT1: Remko Akkerman	University of Twente
MT2: Shrikant Sharma	Cambridge University
MT3: Dana Granville	Army Research Laboratory
MT4: Kevin Potter	Bristol University
MT5: Tongxi Yu	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
MT8: Julie Chen	University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Part II: Numerical Simulation (NS)
Keynote: Noboru Kikuchi	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
NS1: Philippe Boisse	ENSAM
NS2: Andrew Long	University of Nottingham
NS3: John Klintworth	MSC Software
NS4: EA Elsayed	Rutgers University
NS5: Olivier Guillermin	Vistagy
NS6: Jan Walczak	ADINA R & D
NS7: Alfred Loos and Romesh Batra	Virginia Tech
NS8: Jian Cao	Northwestern University
NS9: James Sherwood	University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Part III: Stamping Applications (SA)
Keynote: Martyn Wakeman	EPFL
SA1: Michael Debolt	Ford Motor Company
SA2: Som Soni	AdTech
SA3: Steven McCarthy	University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Part IV: V & V (VV)
Keynote: Len Schwer	Schwer Associates

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

This workshop is made possible with the support from the National Science Foundation (DMI- 0118602), the University of Nottingham, University of Massachusetts -Lowell, Northwestern University and the U.S. Association of Computational Mechanics. We would like to thank all the participants for joining us at the workshop, for their careful preparations of the presentation materials and the briefs, for their contributions to the discussion. Finally, we owe our thanks to the following staff members and research personnel for their assistances: Ms. Charlotte Gill, Mr. Thaweepat Buranathiti, Mr. Xiongqi Peng and Dr. Xue Pu.

Patrick Blanchard

Jian Cao

Julie Chen

Andrew Long

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PHOTOS

Akkerman, Remko	Rich, Andrew
Barsoum, Madgy	Schwer, Len
Batra, Romesh	Sharma, Shrikant
Boisse, Philippe	Sherwood, James
Cao, Jian	Soni, Som
Chen, Julie	Wakeman, Martyn
Elsayed, Elsayed	Walczak, Jan
Granville, Dana	Williford, Marcie
Guillermin, Olivier	Yu, Tongxi
Kikuchi, Noboru
Klintworth, John	All the attendances
Long, Andrew	Dinner
Loos, Alfred	Reception 1
Potter, Kevin	Reception 2
	Reception 3

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