Welding is the third most employed manufacturing process behind assembly and machining. These processes have a direct impact on several sectors such as machine-tool, transportation (automotive, naval, railway,…), energy ...

Weight reduction is the most cost-effective mean to improve fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector. Combining steel and aluminum in a hybrid structure will implement the integrated ...

FMLs are hybrid composite materials built up from interlacing layers of thin metals and composites that were created in the aeronautical sector in order to combine the advantages of composites and metals. The main disadvantage ...

Low weight is one of the most important design criteria to be considered during the selection of the material for different applications. Weight saving is necessary in the applications where the components are in motion. ...

Environmental concerns are increasing within the industy, especially in the automotive industry. On one hand, they are making efforts to reduce the CO2 emissions and on the other hand, they are working in the development ...

Nowadays, globalisation enables a rapid uptake of the classical manufacturing and production technologies, thus making it much harder for European companies to compete with low labour costs of emerging countries. In order ...

Nowadays, the requirements demanded to many of the parts used in such industries as the aeronautic or the automotive industry are increasingly higher: more complex shapes, previously unimaginable, lower and lower radii, ...

Tanto la globalización como la tendencia europea de reducir a cero el impacto medioambiental, así como la reducción de las emisiones, ha generado un gran impacto tanto en las acerías como en los fabricantes de componentes ...