TY - CHAP AU - Marta Oliveira ED - Mohsen Kazeminezhad Y1 - 2012-10-17 PY - 2012 T1 - Towards Benign Metal-Forming: The Assessment of the Environmental Performance of Metal-Sheet Forming Processes N2 - Different aspects of metal forming, consisting of process, tools and design, are presented in this book. The chapters of this book include the state of art and analysis of the processes considering the materials characteristics. The processes of hydroforming, forging and forming of sandwich sheet are discussed. Also, a chapter on topography of tools, and another chapter on machine tools are presented. Design of a programmable metal forming press and methods for predicting forming limits of sheet metal are described. BT - Metal Forming SP - Ch. 6 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/50359 DO - 10.5772/50359 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-28 ER -