Forming Process

• – Bulk forming: extrusion, forging, rolling, wire and tube drawing
• – Sheet forming: sheet drawing, hydroforming, roll forming, incremental forming
• – Microforming Joining by forming
• – Shearing Forming in high-temperature: semisolid forming, laser forming
• – Electro magnetic forming Thermo-mechanical processing
• – Rapid prototyping (Additive manufacturing)
• – New processes

Mechanics & Modeling

• – Analytical & numerical methods
• – Experimental methods
• – Statistical methods
• – Multiscale modeling
• – Constitutive modeling
• – Micro mechanics
• – Polycrystal plasticity
• – Material testing
• – Formability, damage and failure
• – Material characterization

Process Area

• – Optimization of process and product quality
• – Tools and dies
• – Tribology, wear, coating
• – Economy and ecology in forming
• – Process control
• – Equipment

Emerging Area

• – Green / sustainable metal forming technologies
• – Digitalization, virtualization, AI in metal forming
• – Multi-material processing
• – Agile / flexible metal forming processes
• – Forming of non-metallic materials
• – Microstructure design by forming
• – Surfaces & Interfaces
• – Additive Manufacturing

Mini-Symposia

MS-1: Advances in Robotic Forming: Processes and Simulations

MS-2: Autonomous Design and Manufacturing

MS-3: Characterization of Plasticity, damage and fracture for metal forming

MS-4: In Commemoration of Professor Robert H. Wagoner: Advances in Plasticity Theories, Constitutive Modeling and Simulation of Lightweight Metals Forming

MS-5: Advanced material and fracture modeling across length scales, and their applications to next generation mobility

MS-6: Advanced Constitutive Modeling for Sheet Metal Forming Processes

MS-7: Multiscale Material Characterization and Modeling in Forming Processes

MS-8: Digital plastic forming with multiple-energy fields

MS-9: Energy-Field-Enabled Atomic-Scale Technology of Plasticity