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The use of lightweight structures across several industries has become inevitable in today’s world given the ever-rising demand for improved fuel economy and resource efficiency. In the automotive industry, composites, reinforced plastics, and lightweight materials, such as aluminum and magnesium are being adopted by many OEMs at increasing rates to reduce vehicle mass and develop efficient new lightweight designs. Automotive weight reduction with high-strength steel is also witnessing major ongoing efforts to design novel damage-controlled forming processes for a new generation of efficient, lightweight steel components. Although great progress has been made over the past decades in understanding the thermomechanical behavior of these materials, their extensive use as lightweight solutions is still limited due to numerous challenges that play a key role in cost competitiveness. Hence, significant research efforts are still required to fully understand the anisotropic material behavior, failure mechanisms, and, most importantly, the interplay between industrial processing, microstructure development, and the resulting properties. This Special Issue reprint book features concise reports on the current status in the field. The topics discussed herein include areas of manufacturing and processing technologies of materials for lightweight applications, innovative microstructure and process design concepts, and advanced characterization techniques combined with modeling of material’s behavior.

n/a --- microstructure --- Mg-Al-Ba-Ca alloy --- strength --- severe plastic deformation --- hot working --- surface roughness --- high pressure torsion extrusion --- optimization --- fatigue fracture behavior --- magnesium alloys --- de-coring --- formability --- multilayered sheets --- HPDC --- spring-back --- contact heat transfer --- mechanical properties --- bending --- in-die quenching --- equivalent strain --- light metals --- processing --- heat transfer --- damage --- creep aging --- thin-walled profile --- rolling --- aluminum alloy --- transmission line fittings --- ceramic core --- processing map --- automated void recognition --- FEA --- multi-output porthole extrusion --- density --- kinetic analysis --- texture --- non-ferrous alloys --- material characterization --- stress superposition --- hot stamping --- metal flow --- hybrid composite material --- V-bending test --- finite element model --- aluminium alloy --- shear lap test --- Al-Cu-Mg alloy --- characterization

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At present, the manufacturing industry is focused on the production of lighter weight components with better mechanical properties and always fulfilling all the environmental requirements. These challenges have caused a need for developing manufacturing processes in general, including obviously those devoted in particular to the development of thin-walled metallic shapes, as is the case with tubular and sheet metal parts and devices.This Special Issue is thus devoted to research in the fields of sheet metal forming and tube forming, and their applications, including both experimental and numerical approaches and using a variety of scientific and technological tools, such as forming limit diagrams (FLDs), analysis on formability and failure, strain analysis based on circle grids or digital image correlation (DIC), and finite element analysis (FEA), among others.In this context, we are pleased to present this Special Issue dealing with recent studies in the field of tube and sheet metal forming processes and their main applications within different high-tech industries, such as the aerospace, automotive, or medical sectors, among others.

Technology --- Engineering --- micro tube --- hollow sinking --- plastic anisotropy --- surface quality --- size effect --- plasticity --- strength --- metallic tubes --- finite element analysis --- accumulative extrusion bonding --- kinematic bending --- product properties --- local heating --- profile bending --- asymmetric profile --- warping --- superimposed hydrostatic pressure --- shear damage growth --- fracture strain --- finite element analysis (FEA) --- additive manufacturing --- rapid prototyping --- sheet metal forming --- V-bending --- groove pressing --- HA-SPIF --- surface finish --- machine learning --- Ti6Al4V --- R-value --- thickness strain --- digital image correlation --- multi-camera DIC --- non-destructive testing --- single point incremental forming --- tube expansion --- formability --- fracture --- stress-triaxiality --- strain-hardening --- viscoplasticity --- bending --- semi-analytic solution --- Ti-6Al-4V ELI --- superplastic forming --- custom prosthesis --- in vivo tests --- History. --- History. --- micro tube --- hollow sinking --- plastic anisotropy --- surface quality --- size effect --- plasticity --- strength --- metallic tubes --- finite element analysis --- accumulative extrusion bonding --- kinematic bending --- product properties --- local heating --- profile bending --- asymmetric profile --- warping --- superimposed hydrostatic pressure --- shear damage growth --- fracture strain --- finite element analysis (FEA) --- additive manufacturing --- rapid prototyping --- sheet metal forming --- V-bending --- groove pressing --- HA-SPIF --- surface finish --- machine learning --- Ti6Al4V --- R-value --- thickness strain --- digital image correlation --- multi-camera DIC --- non-destructive testing --- single point incremental forming --- tube expansion --- formability --- fracture --- stress-triaxiality --- strain-hardening --- viscoplasticity --- bending --- semi-analytic solution --- Ti-6Al-4V ELI --- superplastic forming --- custom prosthesis --- in vivo tests