Plastics has new competition in the auto industry. With General Motors Corp.'s introduction of a proprietary aluminum-forming system it calls ``quick plastic forming,'' the carmaker is signaling that ...

Thermoforming research at the IKT plastics technology institute at Stuttgart University is putting the emphasis on upcycling of used material. An "UpFilT" project, developed with 3D printing filaments ...

In order to improve the forming quality, it is vital to understand the mechanisms that cause the plastic strain localization which eventually leads to ductile damage occurrence in the incremental ...