Course detail

Special Technology of Forming Metals

FSI-HST Acad. year: 2025/2026 Winter semester

Special and unconvencional methods of sheet metal forming, forging resp bulk forming. Processes analysis, infuence of forming conditions and parameters, forming limits with respect of defects and forces, manufacturing equipment and forming tools. Technological sketches of methods. Applications.

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Prerequisites

The basic knowledge of the manufacturing technology and theory of the forming process.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Course – unit credit requirements: participation in the exercises, delivery of assigned papers.
The examination consists of written and oral part. The final classification will be in accordance with ECTS grading scale.

The attendance in lectures is recommended. The attendance in exercises is compulsory. The attendance to the seminar is regularly checked and the participation in the lesson is recorded. The missed lesson is possible to replace with another study group in the same week. In case, that the lesson does not possible to replace, the student will elaborate the complemental task.

Language of instruction

Czech

Aims

The aim of the course is to familiarise students with the use of special forming methods in broad terms.

The students will acquire knowledge of conventional as well as unconventional types of technologies, and will be able to apply these technologies for particular cases of forming.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

The study programmes with the given course

Programme N-STG-P: Manufacturing Technology, Master's
branch STG: Manufacturing Technology, 5 credits, compulsory

Programme N-STG-P: Manufacturing Technology, Master's
branch STM: Manufacturing Technology and Management in Industry, 5 credits, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, optionally

Syllabus


  1. Formability and forming limit diagrams in the solid forming

  2. Formability and forming limit diagrams in the sheet metal forming

  3. Determination of deformations on the components surface (ARGUS, ARAMIS)

  4. Stretch forming of sheet panels and profiles (bending with tension force)

  5. Bulge forming processes (rigid, elastic, fluid tooling)

  6. Rotary power spinning processes (with and without the thinning of the wall)

  7. High energy rate forming processes

  8. Tube bending process

  9. Modification of tube ends by forming

  10. Flanging technology

  11. Precission and orbital forging

  12. Isothermical forging

  13. Superplastic forming

Laboratory exercise

26 hours, compulsory

Syllabus


  1. Selected terms from the forming theory

  2. The limit curves of the forming limit diagrams

  3. Sheet bending with tensile force

  4. Radial expanding

  5. Power spinning of cylindrical parts

  6. Power spinning of conical and spherical parts

  7. Bending of tubes

  8. Flanging of holes

  9. Determination of deformations on the components surface by optical system ARGUS

  10. Determination of deformations on the components surface by optical system ARGUS

  11. Precission forging

  12. Superplastic forming

  13. Completion of elaborations, credit