1. General aspects

1.1 Main manufacturing operations for metal parts

Figure 1 , which summarizes the main classes of processes used, illustrates the three main routes for manufacturing metal parts, depending on the starting state of the metal material:

molding from the liquid state;
shaping from one or more solid parts. This process can be subdivided into forming, or shaping without removal of material; machining, or shaping with removal of material; and assembly, where two or more parts are joined together (please refer to the articles in the section on Working with materials – Assembly in the Mechanics treatise);...

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Bibliography

(1) - CHENOT (J.L.), FOURMENT (L.), HACHEM (E.), PERCHAT (E.), (P.) - Recent and future developments in finite element metal forming simulation. - 11 ^th International Conference on Technology of Plasticity, ICTP 2014, Nagoya Congress Center, Nagoya, Japan, 22 p. (19-24 October 2014).

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Websites

European Scientific Association for Material Forming (founded 1997)

http://esaform.utcluj.ro/

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