Francesco Gagliardi

TL;DR: In this article, a particular application is carried out taking into account the development of an innovative technique to produce a customised ankle support, exalting the role that this technology may play when single complex product has to be manufactured.

TL;DR: In this paper, three lightweight alloys, typically utilized in the aircraft and aerospace industries, were formed by supplying a continuous current in order to generate a local heating, which allows a higher formability as compared to cold forming.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on sheet metal forming and aim to investigate both the efficient use of materials and process energy saving, based on experimental and numerical data. But the results reached the conclusion that the investigated processes are quite different to each other as their environmental impact is concerned since both the required process energy and the possible material savings are rather different for the two operations.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new approach is presented determining the critical value of the bonding criterion from flat rolling experiments and modelling the actual welding occurring in extrusion of complex profiles, which is tested considering an industrial porthole die extrusion process and experimental parts were analyzed to validate the proposed approach.

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of the feed increasing on the material quality was analyzed in order to investigate if the development of high speed machines could be a suitable solution to implement more extensively the single point incremental forming technique in practice.