In the deep drawing tools for forming car body parts, heavy blankholders are used to prevent buckling and wrinkling of the blank. During each press cycle, those large masses need to be lifted, raising thereby the structural dynamic load on the deep drawing tool and on the press. Therefore a detailed knowledge about the blankholder’s lift-off event is essential for an accurate and robust design ...

The aim of this work is to investigate and predict ductile failure in forming processes. Experimental results deep drawing corrugation processing on aluminum alloys suggest that some cases can be due shear-dominated loadings. In order simulate numerically during forming, we use the micromechanical Madou–Leblond model, which permits account for void shape effects are important under shear case d...

This paper proposes an algorithm for buUdmg weighted directed graph,defmes the weighted directed relationship matrix of the graph,an d describes algorithm implementation using this matrix.Based on this algorithm ,an effective way for building an d drawing weighted directed graphs is presented,forming a foundation for visual implementation of the algorithm in the graph theory.

Drawbeads are applied in the deep drawing process to improve the control of the material flow during the forming operation. These drawbeads can be replaced by an equivalent drawbead in simulations of the deep drawing process. In this paper the implementation of an equivalent drawbead model in a finite element code is described. This equivalent drawbead takes not only the drawbead restraining fo...

In Incremental Sheet Forming (ISF) strains can be obtained well above the Forming Limit Curve (FLC) that is applicable to common sheet forming operations like deep drawing and stretching. This paper presents an overview of mechanisms that have been suggested to explain the enhanced formability. The difference between fracture limit and necking limit in sheet metal forming is discussed. The neck...

The present research work is concerned with the effects of optimum process variables in elevated temperature hydro-mechanical deep drawing of 5052 aluminum alloy. Punch-workpiece and die-workpiece friction coefficients together with the initial gap between the blank holder and matrix were considered as the process variables which, in optimization terminology, are called design parameters. Since...

the aim of this paper is to develop a systematic method to analyze the effects of forming parameters on the quality of part formability and determine the optimal combination of the forming parameters for the sheet hydroforming process. in this paper, the effects of four important process parameters namely fluid pressure, friction coefficient at blank/punch interface, gap between die rim block a...

The introduction on large scale of high strength materials in automotive industry provided the possibility to reduce weight and produce safer cars. But at the same time these materials yield more springback than deep drawing steels. This can lead to problems designing the right tools for the forming process. This paper presents a method for the optimization of sheet metal forming parameters in ...

The study involves the evaluation of deep drawing process using two non edible oils, Pongam (Pongammia pinnata) and Jatropha (Jatropha carcass) as metal forming lubricants. Experiments are conducted on 304L steel sheets under the raw and modified oils with suitable punch and die on a hydraulic press of 200 ton capacity. The punch load, draw-in-length and wall thickness distribution for deep dra...