Farhang Pourboghrat
Farhang Pourboghrat
Professor
Research Biography
Warm forming; metal and composite sheet thermo-hydroforming; tube hydroforming; temperature and rate-dependent material models; polycrystalline plasticity models; temperature dependent forming limit diagrams (FLD); fracture and damage mechanics.
Research Interests
- materials
Selected Publications
- Abedrabbo, N., Pourboghrat, F. and Carsley, J., "Forming of AA5182-O and AA5754-O at Elevated Temperatures using Coupled Thermo-Mechanical Finite Element Models," Int. J. Plasticity, 23 (2007) 841-875.
- Zamiri, A., Pourboghrat, F., and Barlat, F., "An Effective Computational Algorithm for Rate-Independent Crystal Plasticity Based on a Single Crystal Yield Surface with an Application to Tube Hydroforming," Int. J. Plasticity, 23 (2007) 1126-1147.
- Guan, Y., Pourboghrat, F., 2008, "Fourier Series based Finite Element Analysis of Tube Hydroforming - Generalized Plane Strain Model," Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 197 (2008) 379-392.
Selected Achievements and Awards
- 2002 John D. and Dortha J. Withrow Teaching Excellence Award