Mechanical Engineering 442, Metal Forming

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Catalog description

Metal forming processes: drawing, extrusion, rolling, forging, and sheet metal forming. Process analysis and design: force estimation, friction and redundant work effects, temperatures generated, defects, and process and equipment limitations.

Prerequisites: Permission from the instructor.

Who takes it

Graduate students who are interested in material behavior and failure modes of metals in the near-net-shape manufacturing processes, and the advanced forming processes which maximize the potential of metals.

What it's about

Theory and applications of metal forming processes including mechanisms of plastic deformation, phenomenological yield criteria, strain localization, buckling instability, design and control of manufacturing processes. Results from current research will be incorporated into the course material. Guest speakers from industry will be invited.

Textbook:

Reference Materials:

  1. Hosford, W.H. Metal Forming: Mechanics and Metallurgy.
    Prentice-Hall. ISBN: 0135885264
  2. Mielnik, Edward M. Metalworking Science and Engineering. McGraw-Hill, 1991. ISBN: 0070419043
  3. Lubliner, Jacob Plasticity Theory. Macmillan, 1990.
    ISBN: 0023721618
  4. Hill, R. The Mathematical Theory of Plasticity. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 0198561628
  5. Bathe, K.J. Finite Element Procedures in Engineering Analysis.
    Prentice-Hall. ISBN: 0133173054

Assessment/Evaluation:

Homework, Final Exam, Term Paper and a Term Paper Presentation.

Contact:

Instructor: Jian Cao
E-mail: jcao@northwestern.edu

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