2. Bending of tubes into complex shapes. 3. Bulging of thin tubes. 4. other applications are blanking , forming, embossing and drawing. 5. fabrication of hollow, non – circular, or asymmetrical shapes from tubular stock. 6. Compression applications involve swaging to produce compression, tensile, and torque joints or sealed pressure joints, and swaging to apply compression bands or shrink rings for fastening components together. 7. flat coils have been used on flat sheets to produce stretch (internal) and shrink (external) flanges on ring and disc – shaped work pieces. 8. Electromagnetic forming has also been used to perform shearing, piercing, and riveting.