Table of Contents

Introduction.- Rigid Plastic Finite Element Method and FEM Simulation.- Evaluation of forming system design.- Die design and service life analysis.- Flow-induced defects in multi-scaled plastic deformation.- Ductile fracture and stress-induced defects in multi-scaled plastic deformation.

About the Author

Dr. Ming Wang FU (M.W. FU) has been working on metal forming and product design and development supported by computer-aided design technologies and finite element simulation for more than three decades. He is currently a faculty member at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HK PolyU). Before joined the HK PolyU in 2006, he had worked as a senior research engineer at the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology from 1997 to 2006. His current endeavors are more focused on advanced materials processing and product realization at different scales and aided by experiments and numerical simulations. To date, Dr. Fu has published more than 160 SCI journal papers and three monographs on metal forming technologies, computer-aided die and mold design, and product design and development.