Cold and hot forging : Fundamentals and applications / edited byTaylan Altan.

Metal forming processes in manufacturing - Forging processes: variables and descriptions - Plastic deformation: strain and strain rate - Flow stress and forgeability - Plastic deformation: complex state of stress and flow rules - Temperatures an heat transfer - Friction and lubrication - Inverse analysis for simultaneous determination of flow stress and friction - Methods of analysis for forging operations - Principles of forging machines - Presses and hammers for cold and hot forging - Special machines for forging - Billet separation and shearing - Process design in impression die forging - A simplified method to estimate forging load in impression-die forming - Process modeling in impression-die forging using finite-element analysis - Cold and warm forging - Process modeling in cold forging uding finite-element analysis - Microstructure modeling in superalloy forging - Isothermal and hot die forging - Die materials and die manufacturing - Die failures in cold and hot forging - Near-net shape forging and new developments.