In this study, the effects of heat treatment of aluminum alloy on the tube bending process were investigated in the rotary draw bending process. As two experimental and numerical simulation methods were used to determine the wall-thinning, ovality, and spring back for extruded, annealed, and aged AA6063 aluminum alloy tubes in different bending angles and bend radii. Numerical simulations were ...

The incremental sheet metal forming (ISMF) process is a new and flexible method that is well suited for small batch production or prototyping. This paper studies the use of the finite element method in the incremental forming process of AA1050 sheets to investigate the influence of tool diameter, vertical step size, and friction coefficient on forming force, spring-back, and thickness distribut...

Aiming at the problems of ship plate forming spring-back in theory and experiment, combining the law of sheet metal forming, this paper puts forward a measurement and compensation method of spring-back outside plate of a ship based on the three dimensional NC (numerical control) pressing machine. First, we use Dynaform software for finite element analysis of springback prediction, and then esta...

The recently proposed concept of spring back reflectors has revolutionised the field of deployable antenna structures. The whole structure is made as a single piece from composite material, without any expensive and potentially unreliable joints, and it is simply folded elastically about a central axis, like a taco shell. Shape distortions occur during manufacturing and are difficult to correct...

In this paper, the typical U-shaped pieces were taken as the object of study and the finite element numerical simulation software Dynaform is applied to simulate the effect of sheet metal bending. The U-shaped bending spring back and its thickness change are analyzed. The influence law of main parameters of die structure to sheet thickness change and the spring back amount are obtained by combi...

This paper studied the deformation mechanisms of sheet metals stamped by rigid punches and deformable dies. Emphasis was placed on the development of elastic plastic zones in the sheet workpieces, on the functions of the die parameters and on their correlations with spring-back. It was found that the reduction of spring-back was due mainly to the interface interaction offered by the dies. The p...

Bending is one of the most common metal forming technology and it can be applied not only in sheet metal forming but also in forming of wires, rods, strips, pipes and bars. However, in car production, ship building and home appliance manufacturing sheet metal bending is most widely employed. One of the most significant sheet metal bending operations is V – Die bending. This process consists of ...