**Meet the editor**

Dr. Mohsen Kazeminezhad is an Associate Professor in Metal forming at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. He holds a BSc., MSc. and Phd from Sharif University of Technology, Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He was a Visiting Fellow in School of Mechanics, Materials and Mechatronics,

University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia, from 2005 to 2006. His teaching includes the undergraduate and graduate courses concerning metal forming. Dr. Kazeminezhad's research interests are in metal forming processes, Severe Plastic deformation, process modeling, microstructure modeling and simulation, mechanical properties control of deformed and annealed metals. He has published over 70 ISI journal papers.

Contents

**Preface VII** 

Chapter 1 **Hydroforming Process: Identification of the Material's Characteristics and Reliability Analysis 3** 

Chapter 2 **Stamping-Forging Processing of Sheet Metal Parts 29**  Xin-Yun Wang, Jun-song Jin, Lei Deng and Qiu Zheng

> **and Materials in Micro-Sheet Metal Forming 111**  Tetsuhide Shimizu, Ming Yang and Ken-ichi Manabe

**The Assessment of the Environmental Performance** 

**for Predicting Forming Limits of Sheet Metal 175**  Javier W. Signorelli and María de los Angeles Bertinetti

**of Metal-Sheet Forming Processes 135** 

**Forming Press and Its Ram Motion 153** 

A. El Hami, B. Radi and A. Cherouat

Chapter 3 **Developments in Sheet Hydroforming for Complex Industrial Parts 55**  M. Bakhshi-Jooybari, A. Gorji and M. Elyasi

Chapter 4 **Forming of Sandwich Sheets Considering Changing Damping Properties 85**  Bernd Engel and Johannes Buhl

Chapter 5 **Impact of Surface Topography of Tools** 

Chapter 6 **Towards Benign Metal-Forming:** 

Chapter 7 **The Design of a Programmable Metal** 

Weizhong Guo and Feng Gao

Chapter 8 **Self-Consistent Homogenization Methods** 

Marta Oliveira

**Section 1 Process 1** 

**Section 2 Tools 109** 

**Section 3 Design 151** 
