Three recent developments made at Rensselaer in sheet material forming processes are briefly reviewed in this paper. These advances represent three broad disciplines of Process Simulation, Forming Processes, and Computer-Aided Measurement Methods. The first development deals with simple and quick computer simulation of 2D sheet forming process without depending on popular finite element analysis methods. An analytical method based on a thin shell theory accounts for bending and unbending effects, and is capable of simulating practical sheet metal forming processes under the plane strain condition. The second area is concerned with innovative methods to improve formability of sheet materials by temperature gradient forming. The drawing limit is increased by such an improved temperature gradient forming process. The third and final area deals with a totally new experimental technique to capture 3D geometry data and measure strain distributions of sheet metal parts using a digital 35mm SLR camera.

Formability of sheet metals can be evaluated using tensile testing. Easily measured tensile properties such as yield strength, tensile strength, elongation, strain hardening exponent, strain rate sensitivity and plastic strain ratio are important parameters to evaluated the sheet formability. This paper briefly explains how these properties are related to deep drawability and stretchability. The plastic anisotropy of sheet metals is usually attributed to the crystallographic texture. However dislocation distribution may influence the anisotropy.

The sheet metal forming process is one of the most important manufacturing processes in the modern industry. From the view point of mechanics involved, it is very difficult to predict whether a newly designed sheet metal part can be formed without defects such as fracture, wrinkling and surface unevenness, etc. In order to reduce the effort taken in the trial-and-error process and to control the process effectively, a systematic method for process modeling is to required. The aim of sheet forming simulation through the process modeling is to reduce the lead time for die disign and manufacture by process modeling is to reduce the lead time for die design and manufacture by means of investigating the deformation mechanics and the mutual interaction between the process parameters. In this paper, the necessity, the present status, and the future technology about CAE of sheet forming simulation have been discussed.

최근 자동차 산업을 둘러싼 사회적, 환경적 요인은 차체 경량화를 강력희 요구하고 있다. 이를 위해서는 차체에 알루미늄 판재를 사용하는 것이 가장 효과적인 방법으로 제시되고 있다. 그러나 차체 설계 조건 및 제조기술은 오랫도안 강판을 사용하는데 적합 하도록 개발되어 왔다. 따라서 현재 사용되고 있는 강판의 대체 재로서 알루미늄 합금 판재를 사용하기 위해서는 강판과 동일한 강도를 가지면서 성형성이 요구되고 현재의 자동차 제조공정 즉 프레스 성형, 조립방법, 표면처리 기술 등에 적합한 특수 목적의 알루미늄 합금 판재의 개발이 요청되고 있다. 오늘날 알루미늄 판재 개발에 있어 적절한 합금 조성의 선택, 제조공정 뿐만 아니라 표면조성 및 형태의 조절 등에 의해 이러한 문제의 해결이 가능해지고 있고 알루미늄 압연 업체의 특수한 설계와 제조개념의 새로운 알루미늄 합금 개발을 위한 적극적인 노력이 집중되고 있어 머지않아 자동차 산업에 알루미늄 합금의 사용이 크게 늘어날 것으로 생각된다. 따라서 본 고에서는 자동차 차체용 알루미늄 합금의 개발 동향 및 차체적용을 위한 특성 및 응용기술에 대해 고찰한다.

당 공장에서 생산공급되고 있는 동 및 동합금의 스트립(Strip)은 다양한 형태로 가공되어 광범위하게 사용되어 있다. 특히, 생활수준의 향상과 더불어 색채가 아름답고 가격이 저렴한 황동소재는 각종 고급 장식재, 침대, 거울, 액자 등의 구조용 재료로서 사용되며, 인탈산동은 주전자로 널리 사용된다. 그러나 현재 이러한 제품을 가공하는 국내 업체들이 가공에 적합한 소재의 선정 및 가공조건에 대한 기술수준이 낮음으로 인해 종종 품질사고를 일으키고 있다. 이러한 품질사고와 관련하여 조사한 결과를 소개하고자 한다.

A rotating disk is introduced to be applied to the deep drawing press. Several characteristics are summarized to see the basics of deep drawing of sheet metal in terms of load-stroke relationship and formability. Many conventional drawing presses, which are mostly link-type presses, are also shown to be compared with the rotating disk-type press. Performances of the new press are kinematically analyzed it terms of load-main gear angle relationship, stroke-gear angle relationship, and slide velocity-gear angle relationship and they are compared with those of conventional types', e. g. crank press and so on. The comparison show kinematically better performance of rotating disk-type press than that of conventional ones. Also, the new press are proven to be one of the best press for mass production in terms of cycle time. Applicability of the rotating disk press to deep drawing and cold forging work is introduced. The new press is described in terms of economy such that the cost of new press would be much lower than those of conventional types'.

스템핑용 냉연강판의 기계적 성질은 온도에 따라 변하므로 금형재의 열적 특성은 성형의 성공여부에 영향을 미칠 수 있으며 재질선정에 있어 중요한 인자의 하나이다. 금형재질이 성형에 미치는 영향을 조사하기 위하여 차체의 패널용으로 사용되는 강판에 대하여 상온 및 고온에서의 인장시험을 하였으며 구상흑연주철과 회주철을 중심으로 열특성을 조사하였다. 연신율과 인장 강도의 온도 의존성에 대한 검토와 함께 금형재료에 따른 열전달 특성을 분석하여 열특성 측면에서는 회주철이 구상흑연 주철보다 더 적합 하며 열전도율이나 비열 등의 열특성치도 금형재 선정에 중요한 인자중 하나라는 결론을 얻었다.

In recent years reduction in noise and vibration in automobile has been strongly required not only from the standpoint of environmental regulations but also for raising the commercial value and ride comfort. Vibration damping steel sheets, which are composites made by sandwitching a visco-elastic resin layer between two steel sheets, have been developed as effective noise-abating materials and have found a growth of use in automobile industries. Vibration damping steel sheets for commercial use must be excellent in vibration damping property, press formability and spot weldability, but are inferior to ordinary steel sheets. In this study, the mechanical properties of vibration damping steel are evaluated, and press formability is analysed on the basis of those properties and shear bonding strength. The development of engine oil pan using damping steel sheets are also reported, focusing on serious problems in oil pan drawing.

Until recently, Stamping tool manufacturing depend on skilled designers and technicians, because it has many parameters. So, Try-out time not controlled. We now apply CAE, preliminary experiment, material database and automated stain measurement in stamping tool manufacturing for concurrent engineering that decreases product development circle time, saves cost, improves product reliability. Automated strain analysis and measurement environment gives very accurately informations to technicians of stamping tool manufacturing. They analysed the part in problem and appled to results in Try-out step.

Generally, the forming process of sheet metal is very complex and difficult process because of many variables such as tool geometry, material properties and lubrication. In this view point, the numerical analysis of sheet metal forming process is very difficult. High speed computer is used to model complex sheet metal forming process on a reasonable time scale. The design and development of sheet metal parts in the automotive industry and the need for improved sheet forming process and reduced part development cost have led to the use of computer simulation in tool/die design of sheet metal pressing. HMC(Hyundai Mator Company) has invested to develop programs for analysis of sheet metal forming process with connection of Universities. As a result, several programs were developed. Recently, the commercial software, PAM-STAMP of ESI was installed and is being tried to application of it to the real automotive panels. This article reviews the ongoing activities on development and application of analytical modeling of sheet metal forming at HMC.

The Aerospace and automobile industries have need to avoid sheet-metal forming problem such as incorrect springback after forming and trimming process, excessive thinning/tearing, wrinking/perkering. It is common practice to use costly trial-and-error experimental methods to develop tooling and manufacturing process parameters. Experimentation should be complemented with computer simulation to reduce cost and leadtime in manufacturing and to influence the design of components. In this study, firstly we solved the springback problem after drawing and trimming process of KFP(F100-229) engine airsealing bearing support part(53H00) forming and studied on the effect of several process parameters on the gap between the formed blank and punch shape using the implicit F.E.M code(ABAQUS). Secondly by the three dimensional dynamic analysis using the explicit. F. E. M code (LS-DYNA3D), we studied on the effect of several process parameters which can be used for avoid tearing and wrinking during the drawing process.

A method of obtaining deformation severity of axisymmetric shape deep-drawn products was developed. Strain states of products produced by single or multi-stage drawing were predicted by using finite element analysis. This method used minimization of potential energy between the known shape of final product and the unknown in initial blank. And that was done numerically by nonlinear finite element method. Deformation theory of plasticity was used for practical purposes. From predicted strain states of drawn parts, deformation severity was found by using forming limit diagrams.

The key factor of quality in precision metal forming is to meet the requirements of parts size and shape. Particular problem of unflatness occurs frequently. This study focuses on figuring out the cause of unflatness. To predict the amount of unflatness after ejection from tool, equivalent temperature method is used. This method, temperature equivalent to the final stress value is calculated, and it is applied as the boundary condition of the linear static analysis. The final of formed part is used as the geometry model of the static analysis.

A practical example of the axisymmetric deep drawing process is simulated by the elastic-plastic finite element analysis using updated Lagrangian approach considering the large deformation. An approach is suggested to solve the problem of the ductile fracture that may encounter during the deep drawing process. The result can be applied to the design of the die for the axisymmetric deep drawing.

The blanking sequence of refrigerator and air-conditioner compressor-motor-core has been determined by trial and error. To improve such problem, 2d-analysis using ANSYS to verify the deformation state has been done firstly. And 3d-analysis following up the real process has been done. Additionally, verified the 3-d analysis result using S/W LS-DYNA.