In this paper, an upper bound approach is used to analyze the extrusion process of bimetallic rods through arbitrarily curved dies. Based on a spherical velocity field, internal, shearing and frictional power terms are calculated. The developed upper bound solution is used for calculating the extrusion force for two types of die shapes: a conical die as a linear die profile and a streamlined di...

GraphML (Graph Markup Language) is an XML-based language for the description of network data. It is intended as a simple, extensible and general file format for archiving arbitrary graphs with arbitrary additional data. This thesis investigates GraphML processing specified by XSLT stylesheets. After an introduction into GraphML and XSLT, various use cases show that XSLT is able – as a stand-alo...

During the last few years, several sheet hydroforming processes have been introduced. Despite the advantages of these methods, they have some limitations. Of the processes, the two main ones are the standard hydroforming and hydromechanical deep drawing. A new sheet hydroforming die set was proposed that has the advantages of both processes and eliminates their limitations. In this method, a po...

Employing a die-under-cup paradigm, we study the extent to which people lie when it is transparently clear they cannot be caught. We asked participants to report the outcome of a private die roll and gain money according to their reports. Results suggest that the degree of lying depends on the extent to which self-justifications are available. Specifically, when people are allowed to roll the d...

In this research, optimization process of axisymmetric extrusion dies is proposed. Plastic zone is analyzed using finite element method in the Eulerian system with flow formulation. The die profiles are defined by Bezier curves with six control points. Two effective functions are considered in this research; standard deviation of the strain rate and the rate of energy consumption during extrusi...

The present paper considers the wire drawing process through a conical die and provides an approximate solution for force, assuming arbitrary hardening law. is based on upper bound theorem. However, this theorem does not apply to stationary flow of strain-hardening materials. Therefore, adopted engineering approach replace original material model with non-homogeneous, perfectly plastic model. k...