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Tube Forming and Fabricating Technologies for Contributing Society by Tackling Problems of Environment and Aging Population

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Forming the Future

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Technologies for forming and fabricating tubes have been contributing to the development of society, and should evolve and have great roles in the future societies, considering the problems on environment and population. Global warming is a critical problem and the average temperature in the world is still increasing. The world population number is stopping rapid increase accompanying with decreasing birthrate, resulting in aging society. Tubes have advantages of high rigidity for a unit weight and could manufacture light-weight components for transport equipment. The technologies are utilized for forming parts in medical devices. The technologies on tubes should contribute for solving these problems and realizing sustainable societies. This paper introduces the author’s technologies and reviews others’ recent technologies on tubes. The technologies include hydro and air forming, rotary forming, bending, micro forming and so on. These technologies are qualitatively evaluated in terms of conflicting characteristics, such as formability, strength, productivity, flexibility and miniaturization. Some technologies are emerging to improve some of the conflicting characteristics at the same time for realizing excellent performances of the formed products.

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  1. Department of Mechanical and Intelligent Systems Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications, 1-5-1 Chofu Gaoka, Chofu-Shi, Tokyo, 182-8585, Japan

    Takashi Kuboki

  2. Department of Mechanical and Intelligence Engineering, Utsunomiya University Graduate School of Engineering, 7 Chome-1-2 Yoto, Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan

    Atsushi Shirayori

  3. Futtsu Unit, Nippon Steel Technology, 20-1 Shintomi, Futtsu-City, Chiba Prefecture, 293-0011, Japan

    Masaaki Mizumura

  4. Faculty of Education, Saitama University, 255 Shimo-Okubo, Sakura-Ku, Saitama, 338-8570, Japan

    Noah Utsumi

  5. Department of Mechanical and Electro-Mechanical Engineering, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, 804, Taiwan

    Yeong-Maw Hwang

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  1. The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

    Glenn Daehn

  2. Northwestern Univ, Evanston, IL, USA

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  3. University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA

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  4. Technical University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

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  5. The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

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  6. Gifu University, Gifu, Japan

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Kuboki, T., Shirayori, A., Mizumura, M., Utsumi, N., Hwang, YM. (2021). Tube Forming and Fabricating Technologies for Contributing Society by Tackling Problems of Environment and Aging Population. In: Daehn, G., Cao, J., Kinsey, B., Tekkaya, E., Vivek, A., Yoshida, Y. (eds) Forming the Future. The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75381-8_239

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