PART III
Forming and Shaping Processes and Equipment
Examination of various products soon leads to the realization that a wide variety of materials and processes have been used in making them, as can also be seen from the example of the automobile shown in Fig. III.1. It will be noted that some products consist of only one part (screws, bolts, washers) or a few parts (pens, eyeglasses, microscopes), while others consist of hundreds or thousands of parts (automobiles, computers) or millions of parts (airplanes, ships). Some products are used for routine applications (paper clips, forks, door keys) while others are used in critical applications (elevator cables, stents, turbine blades). Some are very thin (aluminum foil, plastic film) whereas ...
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