Metal Forming Analysis has two purposes: (a) to acquaint the advanced graduate student with numerical principles and procedures used in the modern analysis of industrial forming operations, and (b) to provide reference material for those performing such an analysis in industrial settings, government laboratories, and academia. In both cases, an understanding of the most important methods and their respective characteristics is the goal.

The first seven chapters focus on principles and procedures, which are derived and presented in an intuitive, informal manner. Exercises appear throughout these chapters, proposing and then solving illuminating problems related to the subject. Extensive problems are provided in three categories at the end of each chapter: proficiency, depth, and numerical, to solidify the information presented.

The last five chapters focus on applications of the numerical analysis to specific forming operations in order to illustrate the lessons learned from these simulations. Most of these results are drawn from the authors' research in this area, using programs developed over many years at their laboratories. Exercises are presented where appropriate and practical, and a limited number of problems are provided at the end of some chapters.

It should be noted that this advanced text and reference volume does not provide a detailed treatment of the underlying physical equations or principles necessary to understand metal deformation itself. This material is limited to Chapter 1, which is a very brief review of the physical descriptions and equations.