International Journal of Material Forming

The International Journal of Material Forming is the official Journal of the European Scientific Association for material FORMing (ESAFORM) (www.esaform.org).The Journal publishes and disseminates original research in the field of material forming. The research should constitute major achievements in the understanding, modeling or simulation of material forming processes. In this respect ‘forming’ implies a deliberate deformation of material.The journal establishes a platform of communication between engineers and scientists, covering all forming processes, including sheet forming, bulk forming, powder forming, forming in near-melt conditions (injection moulding, thixoforming, film blowing etc.), micro-forming, hydro-forming, thermo-forming, incremental forming etc. Other manufacturing technologies like machining and cutting can be included if the focus of the work is on plastic deformations.All materials (metals, ceramics, polymers, composites, glass, wood, fibre reinforced materials, materials in food processing, biomaterials, nano-materials, shape memory alloys etc.) and approaches (micro-macro modelling, thermo-mechanical modelling, numerical simulation including new and advanced numerical strategies, experimental analysis, inverse analysis, model identification, optimization, design and control of forming tools and machines, wear and friction, mechanical behavior and formability of materials etc.) are concerned.Papers should describe new forming processes, experiments, models or modelling techniques, related to forming or the relation between process conditions and product properties. In general, simulation results should be validated by experiments unless the focus is purely on novel modelling techniques. New models or modelling techniques should have a broad applicability in forming simulations and should not be restricted to one particular shape.Results of analytical or numerical models that are not translated into new knowledge or are not supported by experimental validation will not be accepted. Similarly, submissions that describe experimental results without thorough evaluation and conclusion and thus not leading to new knowledge, will be rejected. The relevance for forming technologies and the novelty of the work should be clearly described in the abstract.

《国际材料成形杂志》是欧洲材料成形科学协会(ESAFORM)的官方期刊(www.esaform.org)。该杂志出版和传播材料成型领域的原始研究。该研究应在材料成形过程的理解、建模或仿真方面取得重大成果。在这方面，“成形”意味着材料的故意变形。该杂志建立了一个工程师与科学家沟通的平台，涵盖了所有的成型工艺，包括板材成型、体块成型、粉末成型、近熔体成型(注塑、触控成型、吹膜等)、微成型、液压成型、热成型、增量成型等。如果工作的重点是塑性变形，其他制造技术，如机械加工和切削也可以包括在内。所有材料(金属、陶瓷、聚合物、复合材料、玻璃、木材、纤维增强材料、食品加工材料、生物材料、纳米材料、形状记忆合金等)和方法(微宏建模、热机建模)；数值模拟包括新的和先进的数值策略、实验分析、反分析、模型识别、优化、成形工具和机械的设计和控制、磨损和摩擦、材料的力学性能和成形性等。论文应描述与成形有关的新成形工艺、实验、模型或建模技术，或工艺条件与产品性能之间的关系。一般来说，仿真结果应该通过实验来验证，除非只关注新的建模技术。新的模型或建模技术应该在成形模拟中具有广泛的适用性，不应该局限于一个特定的形状。分析或数值模型的结果，如果没有转换成新的知识或没有得到实验验证的支持，将不被接受。同样，如果提交的论文没有经过彻底的评估和结论就描述了实验结果，因此没有带来新的知识，那么这些论文将被拒绝。对成形技术的相关性和工作的新颖性应在摘要中明确描述。