Superplasticity
Subtitle: Mechanical and Structural Aspects, Environmental Effects, Fundamentals and Applications
By: by Kuppuswamy Anantha Padmanabhan, Graeme John Davies
Contributors: Davies, Graeme John
Series: MRE Materials Research and Engineering; MRE Materials Research and Engineering
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
ISBN-13: 9783642814587; 9783642814563
Subjects: Surfaces (Physics)
Description: This book examines the idea that under the right experimental conditions any material can be rendered superplastic and it raises the question whether  such  a near-universal phenomenon like superplasticity should also have the same physical basis.  The  book tries to combine the perspectives of materials science, on the one hand, and that of design and mechanics, on the other, because the authors believe that only a holistic view of materials, design, mechanics and performance can lead to useful solutions of societal benefits, in addition to providing great intellectual challenges. After considering the experimental evidence for superplasticity in different classes of materials, the authors discuss the physics- and phenomenology- based models, along with their advantages and limitations. Then, the analyses for superplastic forming available in the framework of continuum mechanics, finite element analysis and numerical simulations are presented. Finally, the book highlights some successful industrial applications.
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