To meet the various and critical manufacturing requirements including high precision, low cost, good manufacturability, and more demanding from product service and performance aspects such as high performance, light-weight, less energy consumption and low carbon emissions in today's era of rapid product development with short product life circle, it is crucial to re-innovate and re-invigorate metal forming technologies and enable it to play an even more important role in manufacturing arena. Historically, introducing new kinds of energy fields into the forming process drives the innovative advance and rejuvenating of forming technologies due to the physically interactive mechanisms of energy field and certain material deformation behaviors such as thermal-mechanical coupling effects. In this paper, a classification of energy-aided metal forming processes is orchestrated and presented, and three kinds of energy-assisted metal forming technologies, viz., electrically-assisted forming, ultrasonic vibration assisted forming, and electromagnetic field supported forming, are reviewed and delineated as they are currently receiving a widespread attention with promising application potentials. In this paper, the physical essence and the effects of these introduced energy fields on deformation behavior, process performance, microstructure evolution are elucidated and analyzed. The constitutive modeling of these forming processes is recapitulated, and the newly established energy field assisted metal forming technologies are exemplified and discussed. Based on the advantages and limitations of these unique metal forming processes assisted by additional energy fields, the process capacity and application potentials are unraveled and examined. Finally, from the aspects of exploring physical mechanisms, establishing high-fidelity models, coupling the multiple energy fields, and developing intelligent equipment and realizing these forming processes, the current challenges and future prospects were discussed, summarized and articulated in such a way to present a panorama of the research, development and application of the energy-assisted forming technologies.

满足当今产品快速发展时代对高精度、低成本、良好工艺性等各种关键制造要求，以及对高性能、轻量化、低能耗、低碳排放等产品服务和性能方面提出的更高要求产品生命周期较短，金属成形技术的再创新和重振，使其在制造领域发挥更加重要的作用至关重要。历史上，由于能量场的物理相互作用机制和某些材料变形行为（例如热力耦合效应），将新型能量场引入成形过程推动了成形技术的创新进步和复兴。在本文中，整理和提出了能量辅助金属成形工艺的分类，并对三种能量辅助金属成形技术，即电辅助成形、超声振动辅助成形和电磁场支持成形进行了回顾和描述。目前受到广泛关注并具有广阔的应用前景。本文阐明并分析了这些引入的能量场的物理本质以及对变形行为、工艺性能、微观结构演化的影响。概述了这些成形过程的本构模型，并对新建立的能量场辅助金属成形技术进行了举例和讨论。基于这些由附加能量场辅助的独特金属成形工艺的优点和局限性，对工艺能力和应用潜力进行了阐述和检验。最后，从探索物理机制、建立高保真模型、耦合多能场、开发智能装备和实现这些成形过程等方面，对当前的挑战和未来的前景进行了讨论、总结和阐述，以呈现能量辅助成形技术的研究、开发和应用全景。