A common saying is that all good things must come to an end. I am not really sure why this must be true, and I certainly hope that there are many exceptions. However, it is true for this series of ...

With each passing year, it seems that the automotive industry offers consumers more choices and more features than ever before, while still maintaining or improving fuel efficiency and safety. These ...

Lightweight vehicles are big news in the automotive industry at the moment, following the launch of the ultralight steel. Lighter vehicles offer the benefits of materials and energy savings, and so ...

Having higher capacity to undertake pressures and larger compensation ability compared with the U-shape bellows, toroidal or Ω-shape bellows are being more and more widely used in engineering. The ...

Abstract: The tube hydroforming process (THF) has recently found a wide application opportunity in the automotive industry, and is of increasing interest to other industries as well. The increased ...

Advanced high strength steels are the group of material with high strength and good formability, because high strength lesser gauge thickness can be used without compromising the function of component ...

The hydroforming process involves a number of complex phenomena and presents several types of non-linearities (geometric, behavioral law, etc.). Optimizing a ...