• Getting started with QForm UK
  • Introduction
  • Installing and running the program
    • PC requirements
    • Installation
    • License management
    • Program launch mode
  • QForm UK basics
    • Geometry preparation
    • Initial data settings
    • Project simulation
    • Results overview
  • Quick Start on the training examples
    • One action 3D forging (Fork)
    • Results output (Fork)
    • Hot forging 2D+3D in 3 steps (QExample)
    • Tool simulation (QExample)
    • Creating a report (QExample)
  • How to get technical support
  • QForm UK 12 specification: description of the program functions
  • Specification of Longitudinal rolling module
  • Specification of Ring rolling module
• Users manual
  • Main application window
    • Main menu
    • Toolbar
    • Playback bar
    • Simulation control panel
    • Simulation message log
  • Initial data settings
    • Project
      • Operation
    • Geometry
    • Positioning of geometric objects
    • Workpiece parameters
    • Tool parameters
    • Stop conditions
    • Boundary conditions
    • Blows
    • Simulation parameters
      • Workpiece mesh and Tool mesh
      • Additional
  • QShape: preparing 3D geometry
    • Types of models and objects in QShape
    • Basics operations. Settings geometric models
    • Improvement of geometry and correction of defects
    • Direct geometry import in QForm from STEP-files
  • Hexahedral mesh generation
    • QForm quadrilateral mesh generator
    • Mesh preparation for tubular workpieces
    • Mesh preparation for free-form sheet workpieces
  • Preparing 2D geometry
    • QDraft editor Interface
  • Database
    • Equipment
    • Lubricants
    • Friction between tools
    • Deformed materials
    • Tool materials
    • Environments
    • Process templates
    • Simulation parameters templates
    • Ring rolling mills
    • Sprayers
  • Subroutines
    • Standard subroutines
      • Surface flow analysis
      • Temperature analysis
      • Flow lines outcrop
      • Displacement
      • Forging ratio
      • Cylindrical coordinate system
      • Damage models
      • Pressure center (early access)
      • Wear
      • Slippage velocity
      • The low cycle fatigue (LCF) of dies
        • Subroutine capabilities
        • Theoretical environment of simulation
        • Description of model parameters and simulation algorithm
    • User subroutines
      • Postprocessing user subroutines
      • Processor user subroutines
      • Examples of user subroutines
      • Debugging of user subroutines
  • Work with the Application Wizard
    • Getting started with API in S-expressions
    • Using the QForm API for Python
    • Using the QForm API for VBA (Excel)
    • Using the QForm API for C#
  • Results output
    • Output fields
    • Section planes creation
    • Graphs output
    • Measurements
    • Animations and images
    • Tracking points and lines
    • Multi-window mode
    • Statistics
    • Results view window
    • Objects tree
    • Simulation state
    • Other possibilities
  • Preparation of reports
    • Description of report template tags
  • Appendix
    • Hotkeys
    • Batch mode
    • Program settings
    • Advanced import options
    • Server settings
    • Parallelization and reproducibility of the calculation
• Technology manual
  • Ring rolling
    • Initial geometry
    • Types of tools
    • Initial data settings
    • Tools for analyzing results
  • Cross rolling
  • Longitudinal rolling
    • Features of longitudinal rolling simulation
    • Geometry preparation
    • Tools parameters
    • Rolling parameters
    • Reverse rolling
    • Result analysis
    • Example of simulation in the longitudinal rolling module
    • Example of simulation in a universal stand
  • Sheet metal forming
    • Determination of workpieces thickness
    • Application of forming limit diagrams
    • Simulation of forming of anisotropic workpieces
    • Example of sheet metal forming simulation
  • Thermomechanical processing and heat treatment
    • Phase transformations
      • Creating multiphase materials
      • Setting properties of phase transformations
      • Predicting hardness and strength
      • Heat treatment adviser for steels
      • Specifics of setting properties of aluminium alloys
      • Example of heat treatment of a shaft
    • Microstructure evolution
      • Theoretical Foundations of Microstructure Evolution
    • Spray cooling
      • Theoretical foundations of spray cooling
      • Sprayers and groups of sprayers
    • Diffusion saturation processes
      • Теоретические основы диффузионных процессов
      • Preparing data for simulation
  • Cyclic tool heating
  • Electric upsetting
• Tutorial
  • Operation type General forming
    • 2D Hot general forming Disk
    • 2D-3D coupled deformation problem
    • Cold forging
    • Laps prediction
    • Flowthrough defect
    • Elastic-plastic task of cooling
    • Spring loaded tool
    • Modeling of cyclic heating of the tool
    • Hydro forming
    • Saddling
    • Reducer rolling
    • Rolling
    • Multi-blow process
  • Other operation types
    • Cross wedge rolling
    • Cross rolling
    • Electric upsetting
    • Sheet metal forming
    • Example of a circle rolling simulation
    • Example of simulation in a universal stand
    • Example of heat treatment of a shaft
• Theoretical environment of QForm UK
  • Introduction
  • Plastic deformation of materials
    • Displacement, strain and strain rate
    • Stress
    • Yield criterion
    • Friction at plastic deformation
    • Flow stress
    • Constitutive equations
    • Energy relations and variational principles
    • The system of governing equations of plastic deformation
    • Thermal effects during plastic strain
  • Features of FEM implementation in QForm UK
    • Concept of finite element method
    • Discretisation of continuum
    • Discretisation of governing system of equations
    • Solving non-linear problems
    • Additional options of simulation
  • References