Professors Worswick and Butcher are actively pursuing warm and hot forming of aluminum and magnesium alloys, characterizing the benefits of high temperature formability, understanding the interaction between processing and final properties, and developing numerical models to support application of these processes by industry.
Key applications include:
- Hot forming of high strength aluminum alloy sheet for automotive structural applications
- Warm forming of high strength aluminum alloy sheet for automotive structural applications
- Warm forming of aluminum brazing sheet for heat exchanger applications
- Warm forming of magnesium alloy sheet for automotive closures applications