Greener manufacturing : superplastic-like forming

• Main Authors: Jarfors, Anders E. W., Liu, Jun, Tan, Ming-Jen, Lim, Samuel Chao Voon, Fong, Kai-Soon, Castagne, Sylvie
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/95857; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/11397
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Conventional superplastic forming (SPF) is normally conducted at a slow forming rate (10−3 s−1 or slower) and high temperatures (typically 773 K or higher for aluminum alloys), which is not attractive for wider applications. Recently, SPF has revived as an attractive process in the automotive and ae...