Forming Operations and Forming Limit Diagram of Steel

Abstract

Sheet metal forming is one of the important areas that have to be understood in detail. Forming is the very complex phenomena; it involves bending, deep drawing and stretching operations. Material properties namely stre-ngth, ductility, elongation, planer anisotropy and strain hardening coefficient governs the forming behavior. More-over, finally forming limits are to be known to form the desired part of the components.