Hot forming metallurgy

Shaping metallurgy is the subject of two articles in the same treatise, dealing respectively with the problems of cold and hot plastic deformation, excluding processes involving material removal (machining) and various types of assembly (welding, bonding, etc.). On the other hand, tribological issues (friction and lubrication, wear) or thermal issues (self-heating, metal-tool heat transfer), of considerable importance in the analysis of most processes, are the subject of separate articles in the "Metallic Materials" database: [M 3 002] at [M 3 005] and [M 3 012] at [M 3 013] .

This dossier is devoted to hot plastic forming. For general information on forming metallurgy and cold forming, see [M 3 030] .