1. Manufacture of Thick-walled Tubular Components by Pressure-assisted Injection Forging PhD Student Yanling Ma Supervisor Dr. Yi Qin p

2. Project Programme Industrial Investigation Material Test FE Simulation Forming Experiment Design/manufacture Algorithm PhD Thesis

3. Industrial Investigation Requirements on tubular components Manufacturing method review Use of pressurising materials (PMs) Classification of polymers as PMs Selection of PMs for testing

4. Material Test Qualification of Mechanical Properties of PMs Testing PMs Under Confined Pressures

5. Qualification of Mechanical Properties of PMs Equipment design

6. Qualification of Mechanical Properties of PMs Specimens design and consideration for testing

7. Testing PMs under confined pressures FE simulation for designing tests

8. Testing PMs under confined pressures Compression tests of compound cylinders

9. FE Simulation of forming of tubular components

10. Investigation of Neural Network methods and applications Literature Review of NN applications Investigation of Software Ongoing Work

11. Further work (2002) - Objectives and Tasks Material tests and forming experiments FE simulation for forming process design Concurrent design and manufacture algorithm

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