Sheet Metal 2007: Volume 344 (Key Engineering Materials) - Tapa blanda

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Collections of peer-reviewed papers always make excellent sources of knowledge and new ideas for researchers coming from both universities and industry. The present collection in particular provides interdisciplinary and international resources, thus encouraging the close cooperation of material scientists, manufacturing and computer engineers and promoting the diffusion of research results, and technology transfer, in all areas of Sheet Metal Processing and Characterization.The relevance of scientific research to this apparently mundane field is demonstrated by the huge number of industrial applications of Sheet Metal Processing and by the very relevant contributions made by Sheet Metal companies to the GDPs of the most industrialized countries. The importance of these factors is well-reflected by the number of scientific papers submitted to this collection. The previously unequalled number of 114 contributions, from industries and universities all over the world, demonstrates the vitality of this area, as well as the relevance and importance of high-level scientific debate concerning the most urgent research issues. A set of keynote papers, presented by highly qualified experts from industry and by well-regarded academics working in this field, completes the collection.In general, this volume furnishes important and interesting insights into R&D issues concerning Sheet Metal Processing: Indeed, such SheMet Proceedings provide a State-of-the-Art guide to this dramatically important industrial field.