1. Home
  2. Materials
  3. Metal forming and foundry
  4. Metal forming - Mechanical and thermal aspects

  5. General aspects

Article | REF: M3000 V2

Metal forming - Mechanical and thermal aspects

Author: Eric FELDER

Publication date: November 10, 2015 | Lire en français

You do not have access to this resource.
Click here to request your free trial access!

Already subscribed? Log in!

Automatically translated using artificial intelligence technology (Note that only the original version is binding) > find out more.

    A  |  A

    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);...

    You do not have access to this resource.

    Exclusive to subscribers. 97% yet to be discovered!

    You do not have access to this resource.
    Click here to request your free trial access!

    Already subscribed? Log in!

    The Ultimate Scientific and Technical Reference

    A Comprehensive Knowledge Base, with over 1,200 authors and 100 scientific advisors
    + More than 10,000 articles and 1,000 how-to sheets, over 800 new or updated articles every year
    From design to prototyping, right through to industrialization, the reference for securing the development of your industrial projects

    This article is included in

    Metal forming and foundry

    This offer includes:

    Knowledge Base

    Updated and enriched with articles validated by our scientific committees

    Services

    A set of exclusive tools to complement the resources

    Practical Path

    Operational and didactic, to guarantee the acquisition of transversal skills

    Doc & Quiz

    Interactive articles with quizzes, for constructive reading

    Subscribe now!

    Ongoing reading
    General aspects
    Outline