Study on fold formation mechanism and process optimization in multi-directional die forged valve bodies

• Longjiang Niu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Dianji University, Shanghai, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0001-2968-1116

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• Yongwan Zhang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Dianji University, Shanghai, China

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• Leiyu Zhang,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Jiangsu Zhonggong New Energy Technology Co., Ltd., Rugao City, Nantong, Jiangsu Province, China

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• Qingliang Zhang,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliation School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Dianji University, Shanghai, China

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• Weiping Luo,

  Roles Investigation, Visualization

  Affiliation School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Dianji University, Shanghai, China

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• Jingyu Wang,

  Roles Software, Visualization

  Affiliation School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Dianji University, Shanghai, China

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• Donghang Liu,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Dianji University, Shanghai, China

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• Babak Ziaie ,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: babak.ziaie@atu.ie

  Affiliation Faculty of Engineering and Computing, Atlantic Technological University, Sligo, Ireland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3557-267X

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• Xavier Velay

  Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Engineering and Computing, Atlantic Technological University, Sligo, Ireland

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