The thesis addressed and answered a number of key issues in the experimental analysis of friction in sheet forming operations. Conventional friction theories were linked with the properties of sheet coatings and the process geometries. Newly derived mathematical models extended the analysis of friction in sheet metal forming applications
Notes
Submitted to the School of Engineering and Information Technology of the Faculty of Science and Technology, Deakin University
Degree conferred 2007
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Deakin University, Victoria, 2006
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 208-223)