The Current State-of-the-Art on Material Forming

Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).
The collection of 282 peer reviewed papers aims to promote the interest for all types of materials and all topics connected to Material Forming.
The papers are grouped as follows:
Chapter 1: Formability of Metallic Materials
Chapter 2: Forging and Rolling;
Chapter 3: Composites Forming Processes;
Chapter 4: Semi-Solid Processes;
Chapter 5: Light Weight Design and Energy Efficiency in Metal Forming;
Chapter 6: New and Advanced Numerical Strategies for Material Forming;
Chapter 7: Extrusion and Drawing;
Chapter 8: Friction and Wear in Material Processing;
Chapter 9: Nano-Structured Materials and Microforming;
Chapter 10: Inverse Analysis Optimization and Stochastic Approaches;
Chapter 11: Innovative Joining by Forming Technologies;
Chapter 12: Multiscale & Continuum Constitutive Modelling;
Chapter 13: Incremental and Sheet Metal Forming;
Chapter 14: Sheet-Bulk-Metal Forming;
Chapter 15: Heat Transfer Modelling;
Chapter 16: Structures, Properties and Processing of Polymers;
Chapter 17: Non-Conventional Processes;
Chapter 18: Machining and Cutting;
Chapter 19: Integrated Design, Modelling and Reliability Assessment in Forming (I-DMR);
Chapter 20: Finite Element Technology and Multi-Scale Methods for Composites, Metallic Sheets and Coating Models;
Chapter 21: Intelligent Computation in Forming Processes.