relation: http://miis.maths.ox.ac.uk/miis/540/
title: Vacuum moulding of a superplastic
creator: Chapman, S.J.
creator: Fitt, A.D.
creator: Pulos, G.
subject: Materials
description: The objective of this research is to develop a model for simulating the super-plastic forming process and for predicting the thickness distribution as well the minimum radius of curvature when the material has to fill a sharp corner. Other questions of interest are the deflection of the sheet as a function of pressure for a given mould opening, and the deflection as a function of mould diameter for a given pressure. Modeling based on shell theory is carried out for cylindrical, spherical and arbitrary-shape shells of uniform as well as non-uniform thick- nesses.
date: 1997
type: Study Group Report
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://miis.maths.ox.ac.uk/miis/540/1/Vacuum-moulding-of-a-superplastic.pdf
identifier:   Chapman, S.J. and Fitt, A.D. and Pulos, G.  (1997) Vacuum moulding of a superplastic.  [Study Group Report]