• Transactions of Materials Processing
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.231-237
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• 2002

The manufacturing of a metal bellows consists of the four main forming processes; deep-drawing, ironing, tube bulging and folding. Among these, the bulging and folding processes are critically important because the quality of metal bellows is greatly influenced by the forming conditions of these processes. In the present study, the finite element analysis technique is applied to the bulging and folding processes. The springback analysis is also called out. From the analysis results, it has been revealed that around the crown point the stress state is in one-directional tension and one-directional bending mode. Meanwhile, around the inner point of metal bellows it is in two-directional bending mode. It has also revealed that the thickness of metal bellows around the crown point is nearly uniform.

• Transactions of Materials Processing
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.284-292
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• 2000

Optimization of the process parameters is carried out for process design in sheet metal forming processes. The scheme incorporates with a rigid-plastic finite element method for the deformation analysis and response surface methodology for the optimum searching of process parameters. The algorithm developed is applied to design of the draw bead force and the die radius in deep drawing processes of rectangular cups. The present algorithm shows the capability of designing process parameters which enable the prevention of the weak part of fracture during processes.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.40-43
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• 2001

The use ef sheet material for the hydroforming of a closed hollow body out of two sheet metal blanks is a new class of hydroforming process. By using a three-dimensional finite element program, called HydroFORM-3D, the hydroforming process of sheet metal pairs is analyzed. Also the comparison of conventional deep-drawing and hydroforming process was conducted. The simulation has concentrated on the influences of the various forming conditions, such as the unwelded or welded sheet metal pairs and friction condition, on the hydroforming process. This computational approach can prevent time-consuming trial-and-error in designing the expensive die sets and hydroforming process of sheet metal pairs.

• Journal of the Korean Graphic Arts Communication Society
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.95-107
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• 2007

This study starts to find a way out, experiment and apply commercial UV coatings to the cap closures. The cap closures is made form coating and succeeding deformation process. It is coated with several printing layers, printing and over print varnish coating. Then it pressed in three steps of press called 'deep-drawing'. In this study, two kinds of coating was designed and accomplished in the base of the same manufacturing and environment conditions. Consequently, UV curable ink have adequate performance in this experiment (T-bending, Erichsen Test), but it were experienced several damages in this experiments (web-bending, impact test). They were not cured enough to endure the friction and a unique shape of serial cracks were appeared.

• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.18 no.7
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• pp.394-399
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• 2008

The hydrogen embrittlement susceptibility of high strength TRIP/TWIP steels with the tensile strength of 600Mpa to 900Mpa grade was investigated using cathodically hydrogen charged specimens. TWIP steels with full austenite structure show a lower hydrogen content than do TRIP steels. The uniform distribution of strong traps throughout the matrix in the form of austenite is considered beneficial to reduce the hydrogen embrittlement susceptibility of TWIP steels. Moreover, an austenite structure with very fine deformation twins formed during straining could also improve the ductility and reduce notch sensitivity. In Ubend and deep drawing cup tests, TWIP steels show a good resistance to hydrogen embrittlement compared with TRIP steels.

• Transactions of Materials Processing
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• v.14 no.9 s.81
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• pp.751-755
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• 2005

This paper is concerned with spring back after sheet forming of bulk amorphous alloys in the super cooled liquid state. The temperature-dependence and strain-rate dependence of Newtonian/non-Newtonian viscosities as well as the stress overshoot/undershoot behavior of amorphous alloys are reflected in the thermo-mechanical Finite Element simulations. Hemispherical deep drawing operations are simulated for various forming conditions such as punch velocity, die comer radius, friction, blank holder force, clearance and initial funning temperature. Here, spring back by an instantaneous elastic unloading was followed by thermal deformation during cooling, and two modes of spring back are examined in detail. It could be concluded that the superior sheet formability of an amorphous alloy can be obtained by taking the proper forming conditions for loading/unloading.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.58-67
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• 1998

A sectional analysis of sheet metal forming process with an arbitrary tool shape is proposed in the present work. To improve the numerical convergence in the conventional membrane sectional analysis, the Bending Energy Augmented Membrane (BEAM) elements had been developed. The BEAM elements particularly improve the stability and convergence of the finite element method for the case of deep drawing. In this work, the FERGUBON spline (C$^2$-continuous) was used to fit the deformed mesh to smooth the given curves and calculate the local curvature of the deformed sheet. The fittings of the deformed sheet and tool surface profile ensure the stability and the convergence of the finite element analysis of highly nonlinear stamping processes. A center floor section and front fender section are analyzed to show the accuracy and robustness of the approach. The results obtained by the proposed approach are compared with the available experimental data.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.628-632
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• 2000

In the recent day, shielding can was made of permalloy materials for automobile display instrument. The good roundness has an effect on magnetic property such as the low coercivity and the high permeability. But the products having the roundness is transformed by the heat treatment, the sending to the company and the assembly process. So for the stiffness of the edge, it is necessary for hemming process to be added in the deep drawing process. And it has the good appearance to create a smooth edge rather than a razor edge with urr. In this paper, it is controlled to get the best hemming product by the Pre-hemming angle($105^{\circ}$, $120^{\circ}$, $135^{\circ}$). And Possible process and tool design modification, which may lead to quality improvement in hemming were tested experimentally and using FEM. The commercial finite element program PAM-STAMPTM was used to simulate the pre-hemming process and hemming process, and the predictions were compared with experimental results according to the pre-hemming angle.

• Transactions of Materials Processing
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.113-118
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• 2012

Magnesium sheet alloys possess limited plastic formability at room temperature but their formability is substantially improved at elevated temperatures and optimum strain rates. In the present paper, three different types of failure criteria, namely, strain-based, stress-based, and work-based criteria, are compared for their applicability to warm press forming of magnesium sheet alloys. Warm deep-drawing experiments were conducted on AZ31 alloy sheet, and the results were used to assess the strength and weakness of the failure criteria.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.166-171
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• 2007

In this paper Research development about a micro metal forming manufacturing system has been developed. A micro forming system has been achieved in Japan and it's developed micro press is limited to single forming process. To coincide with the purpose to be more practical, research and development is necessary about the press which the multi forming process is possible. We set the development of the equipment including micro deep drawing, micro punching and micro restriking process to the goal. To achieve this goal, we set the application product to a micro thin foil valve which is used in the micro pump module. The compound die set has been designed and manufactured to make two step process. The material of thin foil valve is SUS-304 and its thickness is 50$\mu$m. We can get a good forming results from micro punching experiments in this paper.