Title: Hot Metal Gas Forming of Aluminum for Manufacturing Vehicle Structural Components
Author: Joseph C. Benedyk
Company: Illinois Institute of Technology
Issue #: Vol. 61, No. 11,12
Year: 2003
# of Pages: 3
Description: Hot Metal Gas Forming (HMGF) is a process that combines in-situ induction heating of a tubular or flat sheet workpiece to forming temperatures in a ceramic die, and expanding the work piece in a die cavity using gas pressure, followed by in-line quenching. The article describes the applications of HMGF as it concerns automotive production.
Product Code: art-00630