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The various contributors to this work cover practical techniques such as injection moulding, composites forming, die extrusion, hydro-forming, blowing, forging, machining and cutting, super plastic forming, as well as a number of other specific processes. In addition, they write about more theoretical treatments, including the advection equation in forming processes, damage modelling, inverse modelling dedicated to rheology parameter identification, micro-macro modelling, and no local and gradient models. The diverse materials considered include composites, metals, polymers and even wood and bones. These contributions are taken from the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Material Forming, held in Liege, Belgium in April 2001. The chapters are written by specialists from different scientific disciplines such as physics, modelling and experimental work.