The aeronautical industry is moving from high-capacity large-airplane construction to low-capacity small-airplane construction. With the change in the production volume, there is a need for more e cient manufacturing ...

Dynamic testing of materials is necessary to model high-speed forming processes (i.e. hammer forging, blanking) and crash/impact behavior of structures, among others. The most common machines to perform medium to high-speed ...

Tension levelling is used in the steel industry to remove shape defects present in cold rolled strip. This technology is increasingly being employed by steel makers to level AHSS steels, because conventional roll levelers ...

The increasing demands for lightweight design in the transport industry have led to an extensive use of lightweight materials such as aluminium alloys. The forming of aluminium sheets however presents significant challenges ...

Currently, a great deal of controversy exists regarding the real forces generated in drawbeads during sheet metal forming processes. The present work focuses on the analysis of the uplift force. First, a detailed literature ...

The final quality of sheet and tube metal–formed components strongly depends on the tribology and friction conditions between the tools and the material to be formed. Furthermore, it has been recently demonstrated that ...

Today’s stamping simulations are realized by ignoring the elastic deformation of the press and tooling system through the assumption of a rigid behavior and a perfect press stroke. However, in reality, the press and tool ...

Rubber pad diaphragm forming is a technology that uses a rigid die in conjunction with a flexible polyurethane tool and fluid pressure action in order to shape metal sheets. In this process, the action of the fluid forms ...

Process stability and facility security are the two main purposes for measuring the force in sheet metal forming facilities. These two purposes look for guaranteeing the good health of the facility avoiding overloads and ...

In a context where industrial production boosts both the society and the economy of a country, improvements in industrial processes are key factors for efficient and reliable development of goods and products. New industrial ...