Table of Contents

1.The introduction of sheet metal forming technology.- 2. The basics and equipments of sheet metal forming.- 3. Hot forming process.- 4. The basic mechanical properties and experimental verification for hot forming steel.- 5. The basic theory and constitutive equation of high strength steel for hot forming.- 6. Microscopic constitutive models of single crystal and polycrystal.- 7. Hot forming simulation algorithms of high strength steels.- 8. Numerical Simulation of high strength steel plate?s hot forming.- 9.Features of hot forming graded composite material and its experiment and simulation.- 10. Simulation and optimization on service performance of hot forming parts.

About the Author

Ping Hu is the dean of the School of Automotive Engineering in Dalian University of Technology (DUT), China, and a professor in the State Key Lab of Structural Analysis of Industrial Equipment in Dalian, China. Ping Hu is also the founder and CEO of KingMesh Company Ltd. He earned his BS, MS and PhD degrees in mathematical mechanics and computing mechanics at JiLin University of Technology (JUT), and completed his postdoctoral research in Kobe University, Japan. In the past, Ping Hu has been the deputy dean of the Graduate School at Jilin University (JLU), professor in the State Key Lab of Automobile Dynamic Simulation located at JLU, director of the Institute of Automobile Body and Die Engineering, and the CEO of Changchun KingMesh Auto Eng. Ltd.

Ning Ma is a technical expert in Zhejiang Geely Automobile Research Institute CO. LTD, and a researcher in the School of Automotive Engineering at Dalian University of Technology. He earned his PhD degrees in mechanical engineering at DUT and completed visiting doctoral research  in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University (NU), USA. In the past, Ning Ma worked as a senior project assistant in Advanced Materials Processing Laboratory, NU, USA, project manager, manufacturing and design engineer in Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Ltd. And SAIC Motor Corporation Limited, China.

Li-zhong Liu and Yi-guo Zhu also work in the School of Automotive Engineering at Dalian University of Technology.