Metal Shaping Processes

Metal Shaping Processes is a comprehensive text focusing on metal shaping processes, which are still the most widely used processes in the manufacture of products and structures. The text carefully presents the fundamentals of metal shaping processes with their relevant applications. The treatment of the subject matter is adequately descriptive for those unfamiliar with the various processes and yet is sufficiently analytical for an introductory academic course in manufacturing.

The text, as well as the numerous formulas and illustrations in each chapter, clearly show that shaping processes, as a part of manufacturing engineering, are a complex and interdisciplinary subject. The topics are organized and presented in such a manner that they motivate and challenge students to present technically and economically viable solutions to a wide variety of questions and problems, including product design.

This is the perfect textbook for students in mechanical, industrial, and manufacturing engineering programs at both the Associate Degree and Bachelor Degree programs, as well a valuable reference for manufacturing engineers (those who design, execute and maintain the equipment and tools); process engineers (those who plan and engineer the manufacturing steps, equipment, and tooling needed in production); manufacturing managers and supervisors; product design engineers; and maintenance and reliability managers and technicians.

Features

• Each chapter begins with a brief highlighted outline of the topics to be described.
• Carefully presents the fundamentals of the metal-shaping process with its relevant applications, so that students and teachers can assess the capabilities, limitations, and potentials of the process and its competitive aspects.
• Offers practical, understandable explanations, even for complex processes.
• Features sections on product design considerations, with guidelines on design for manufacturing.
• Provides a useful die classification with illustrations and descriptions, presses for sheet metalworking, and high energy-rate forming processes.
• A chapter on sheet metalworking covers cutting processes, bending process, tubes and pipe bending, deep drawing processes, and other sheet metal forming process.
• Nontraditional manufacturing process discussions include chemical, electrochemical machining, mechanical energy, and thermal energy processes.
• Includes text entries that are are coded as in an outline, with the same numerical designations carried over the 320 related illustrations for easy cross-referencing.
• A dual (ISO and USA) unit system is utilized.
• Each chapter contains helpful Review Questions.

Vukota Boljanovic, Ph.D., has nearly 50 years of experience in applied engineering in the aircraft and automotive industries, as well as academia. He has performed extensive research in manufacturing engineering, including the impact of design and modifications on sheet metal dies, jigs and fixtures, and process selection; aircraft assembly; and inspection tools and dies.

Boljanovic is the author of numerous technical papers and books, including such Industrial Press titles as Applied Mathematical and Physical Formulas Pocket Reference; Die Design Fundamentals; Metal Shaping Processes; Sheet Metal Forming Processes and Die Design; and Sheet Metal Stamping Dies. He has also contributed material on the topics of die design; sheet metal working and presses; metal casting, molding, and extruding; and powder metallurgy to the Machinery’s Handbook, 28th to 32nd editions. He has been widely recognized by both academia and industry for his contributions to manufacturing processes.

Contents

Part I: Casting and Molding

• Fundamentals of Metal Casting
• Metal-Casting Processes
• Metal Casting: Design and Materials

Part II: Particulate Processing for Metals

• Powder Metallurgy

Part III: Deformation Processes

• Fundamentals of Metal Forming
• Rolling of Metals
• Forging. Extrusion and Drawing of Metals
• Sheet Metalworking

Part IV: Metal Removal Processes

• Fundamentals of Metal Machining
• Machining Processes
• Abrasive Machining Processes
• Nontraditional Machining Processes

Appendix

Index