A lot of research made during these last 15 years showed that the quantification of the springback has a significant role in the industry of sheet metal forming. These studies were made with the objective of finding techniques and methods to minimize or completely avoid this permanent physical variation. Moreover, the use of steel and aluminum alloys in the car industry and aviation poses every...

The exclusion of inherent process variations in the current deterministic design methods for sheet metal forming can lead to very unreliable result that may cause high scrap rate, frequent rework, machine shut down and thus huge loss of profit. In this paper, a general approach is presented to quantify the uncertainties and to incorporate them into RSM model so as to conduct probabilistic based...

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...

In this paper, we propose a novel method on tracking unit pixel width line segments for function approximation-based image coding. This method is applied prior to function approximation of line segments in image coding. Compared to conventional methods, our method overcomes the problems introduced by inaccurately tracking unit pixel width contours that appear normally in images of fine details ...

Warm deep drawing of polypropylene, a semi-crystalline thermoplastic polymer, is studied using finite element analysis. In this process, circular polypropylene blank preheated to temperature much below its melting and drawn into the shape flat-bottom cylindrical cup punch-die combination, both initially at 25°C. The material model used for analysis considers effects varying strain rate during p...

Sheet metal forming problems are typical in nature since they involve geometry, boundary and material non-linearity. Cup drawings involves many parameters like punch and die radius, clearance, lubrication, blank holding force and its trajectories etc. So designing the tools for cup drawing involves a lot of trial and error procedure. To reduce number of costly trial error steps, the process can...