Because of the need for weight reduction in transport industry, in order to save energy as well as to reduce CO2-emission, the use of light weight aluminium sheet is taken increasingly into consideration [1]. But although aluminium is lighter than steel, the formability is less, hence press operations are often more critical. Alloys used are typically 5xxx alloys for inner panels because of the...

Due to limitations of finite element methods and software packages, existing in incorporating the imperfections in to the model. The parametric study of BHF, sheet thickness, die profile radius, punch profile radius, initial yield stress and sheet anisotropy and including imperfections is carried out by the model developed by Ravindra.K.Saxena [1, 2, 3]. The mathematical model is studied and va...

Design of deep drawing die is a skilled and experienced based activity. Selection of die components is a vital step in the design process of a deep drawing die. This paper describes a knowledge based system (KBS) developed for the selection of major components of a deep drawing die. The proposed system uses production rule based approach of artificial intelligence (AI) and consists of eight mod...

Deep drawing process is one of the widely used methods in sheet-metal forming. With the deep drawing method, products of various geometrical shapes such as saucepans, tubes, perfume and soft drink cans can be obtained easily. Therefore, the optimization of the deep drawing process is very important for the industry. In conventional deep drawing method, no angle is given to the surfaces of die a...

This paper investigates the earing phenomenon in deep drawing of AA3105 aluminum alloy, experimentally and numerically. Earing defect is mainly attributed to the plastic anisotropy of sheet metal. In order to control such defect, predicting the evolution of ears in sheet metal forming analyses becomes indispensable. In this regard, the present study implements the advanced yield criterion BBC20...

use of tailor-welded blanks (twbs) in production has significant advantages such as weight and cost reduction. however, their application requires processes that increase their poor formability in comparison to base materials. one of these procedures is the use of fluid pressure in sheet metal forming. in this paper hydro-mechanical deep drawing process of tailor-welded low carbon steel (st12) ...

Fukui’s conical cup test is the one of the formability characteristics evaluation for various sheet metals. The formability characteristics such as diametrical ratio, maximum drawing load, depth of cup up to fracture are to be evaluated. This test is related to drawing test. This test can be performed by using parameters such as friction, process parameters and without blank holder. In fukui’s ...

Abstract Due to the change from mass production personalized and resulting intrinsic product flexibility, automotive industry, among others, is looking for cost-efficient resource-saving methods combining global just-in-time production. In addition geometric manufacturing additive offers a application rapid prototyping small series in predevelopment. this study, FDM process utilized manufacture...