Forming automobile component

Materials used in automotive industry. Initial billets for automotive parts production. Hot and cold forming. Strengthening, recovery, recrystallization. Basic forming technologies: hammer forging and die forging, extrusion, thin plate rolling, area forming. Forming machines and manufacturing lines. Non-conventional forming technologies: hydro-mechanical forming hydrostatical extrusion, Cobapress method, thixotropic forming, forming at lowered temperatures. Materials for forming machines. Heat treatment of steels and Al, Mg alloys. Thermomechanical treatment of steels. SPD forming processes, possibilities their implementation into automotive parts production. Simulation of technological forming techniques in automotive parts manufacturing.