Extreme Forming Manufacturing: Strategies and Cases

ISfIM organized a lecture on Extreme Forming Manufacturing: Strategies and Cases on 27 March 2024 at School of Mechanical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. The lecture was given by Professor Heng Li from School of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Processing, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China.

Lecture Abstract:

Extreme manufacturing has been the most direct and impactful driving force behind the advancement of manufacturing processes and related industries, which aims to create cutting-edge innovations to break though the existing limitation to achieve higher performance manufacturing. Extreme manufacturing mainly involves the fabrication of extreme-scale, high-precision, and high-performance components with special energy field employment and introduction [1]. However, the effects of extreme scale or environment may lead to the significantly variation of the physical properties and microstructure characteristics of the materials, which may even contradict the existing physics and manufacturing principles. Therefore, it is critical to examine the principles, methods and technologies underlying these new phenomena. In this talk, these challenges will be delineated and elucidated. The super-service tube forming, microtube multiple drawing and large-scale ring rolling are taken as the case, some new strategies for achieving high-performance, high-precision, and highly reliable manufacturing of these components will be introduced. Finally, insights on the future development trends of extreme manufacturing will be explicated and discussed.

Speaker Biography:

Prof Heng Li is currently a full professor in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Processing at Northwestern Polytechnical University, China. In the last decades, he focuses on the research on deformation-related multi-scale mechanics and deformation-based advanced manufacturing for excavating the potentials of the critical materials across various fields such as aerospace, marine, automobile, energy, medical devices and electronics. He has secured 25 funds from the National Science Foundation of China and other governmental funding agencies and industries. He has published over 120 peer-reviewed research articles in international journals and 3 monographs. In 2015, he was awarded the prestigious National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars and enrolled in the National Youth Top-notch Talent Program in China, and in 2023, he was selected Changjiang Scholar Distinguished Professor by Ministry of Education. He was awarded the Second Prize of State Technological Invention Award, and obtained first prize of Shaanxi Province Science and Technology three times. He is sitting in the editorial board of several important journals such as Int. J. Plasticity, Int. J. Adv. Manuf. Technol., Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, Advances in Manufacturing and actively serves as scientific/organizing committee member or session chair for a number of international conferences such as International Conference on Plasticity, Damage & Fracture and International Conference on the Technology of Plasticity.