INNOVATIVE FORMING TECHNOLOGY AS A KEY FOR THE EFFECTIVE MANUFACTURING OF LIGHTWEIGHT STRUCTURES

2008 ◽  
Vol 07 (01) ◽  
pp. 37-40
Author(s):  
ERMAN TEKKAYA ◽  
MICHAEL TROMPETER ◽  
WERNER HOMBERG
Keyword(s):  
Sheet Metal ◽  
Traffic Engineering ◽  
Research Work ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Lightweight Construction ◽  
Lightweight Structures ◽  
Forming Technology ◽  
The Face ◽  
Volume Production

Current tends in car body or rail traffic engineering aim at the realization of modern lightweight structures. In this context, demanding technological and economical requirements like the use of high strength materials, the forming of very complex geometries, and the reduction of costs, particularly with regard to low volume production, must be achieved. Novel approaches in the field of sheet metal hydroforming are able to overcome existing limitations of conventional forming technologies and feature a higher potential for an effective manufacturing of lightweight structures. This paper shows the current research work at the Institute of Forming Technology and Lightweight Construction (IUL) in the face of sheet metal hydroforming with a special focus on the design of tool systems.

Blechkomponenten aus hochfestem Aluminium*/Sheet metal components made of high-strength aluminium

2018 ◽  
Vol 108 (10) ◽  
pp. 639-645
Author(s):  
P. Groche ◽  
J. Günzel ◽  
T. Suckow
Keyword(s):  
Heat Treatment ◽  
Sheet Metal ◽  
Construction Material ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Process Chain ◽  
Lightweight Construction ◽  
Forming Process ◽  
Specific Strength ◽  
Treatment Processes ◽  
High Specific Strength

Zur Ausnutzung der hohen spezifischen Festigkeit und folglich Eignung als Leichtbauwerkstoff von EN AW-7075 bedarf es neben den Umform- auch Wärmebehandlungsprozessen, die im Folgenden in den Umformprozess integriert werden und die Prozesskette somit deutlich kürzer und effizienter gestalten. Dieser Fachbeitrag zeigt, welches Produktivitäts- und Leichtbaupotenzial durch eine Inline-Wärmebehandlung erschlossen werden kann.   To be able to exploit the high specific strength and thus suitability of EN AW-7075 as a lightweight construction material, it requires not only forming but also heat treatment processes. The latter become integrated into the forming process and thus make the process chain significantly shorter and more efficient. This paper points out the potential for productivity and lightweight construction to be tapped by inline heat treatment.

Decrease of Springback by Geometrical Modification of the Sheet Metal Part

2014 ◽  
Vol 1018 ◽  
pp. 277-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annika Weinschenk ◽  
Wolfram Volk
Keyword(s):  
Sheet Metal ◽  
Deep Drawing ◽  
High Strength Steels ◽  
Preventive Measure ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Structural Components ◽  
Lightweight Construction ◽  
Metal Part ◽  
Additional Advantage ◽  
Material Parameters

Super high strength steels are used as the importance of lightweight construction increases. They induce a high amount of springback during removal of a tool and this has to be compensated. Previously developed methods of springback compensation [1] have two disadvantages. Firstly springback of a u-shaped profile cannot be compensated in one deep drawing step. Secondly these methods only take the material parameters of one sheet metal batch into account. With varying material properties, problems arise because the tool is especially designed for one sheet metal batch. Therefore the objective of this work is not to compensate springback but to reduce it by a preventive measure which allows the production of a u-shaped profile by one deep drawing step. An additional advantage of the measure, which consists of a geometric change of the punch radii and is defined by several parameters, is that the influence of the sheet metal batch on springback is significantly reduced. This can be realised by a suitable choice of values for these parameters. Apart from this measure a method was developed whereby appropriate values for the parameters can be determined on the basis of a metamodel without the need of individual simulations. By way of example the method is applied to a u-shaped profile, however it can be used for structural components in general.

Springback Compensation by Superposition of Stress in Air Bending

2009 ◽  
Vol 410-411 ◽  
pp. 621-628 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andres Weinrich ◽  
Nooman Ben Khalifa ◽  
Sami Chatti ◽  
Uwe Dirksen ◽  
A. Erman Tekkaya
Keyword(s):  
Sheet Metal ◽  
New Method ◽  
Lightweight Construction ◽  
Springback Compensation ◽  
Air Bending ◽  
Forming Technology ◽  
Bending Process ◽  
The Common ◽  
Metal Processing Industry ◽  
Free Bending

In the sheet metal processing industry bending is one of the common metal forming processes. Depending on the process state, a differentiation has to be made between free bending (air bending) in the die and coining (die bending). Because of its flexibility the air bending process is nowadays one of the widely applied processes for sheet metal bending, but the springback phenomenon is still a great challenge for the industrial application. At the Institute of Forming Technology and Lightweight Construction (IUL) of the Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany, a new method has been developed allowing the compensation of springback effects in air bending of sheet metals. This method is based on the incremental and local superposition of stresses in the forming zone. The superposition occurs after the bending operation but before unloading along the sheet metal width. The advantage of this new method is that a minimal force is required to compensate the springback. This paper describes the springback compensation method in detail and presents first experimental results.

Hot Stamping of Complex-Shaped High-Strength Aluminum Components

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liliang Wang ◽  
Jun Liu ◽  
Jianguo Lin
Keyword(s):  
Heat Treatment ◽  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Aluminum Alloy ◽  
Aluminum Alloys ◽  
Solution Heat Treatment ◽  
Hot Stamping ◽  
Research Work ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Forming Technology ◽  
Complicated Geometries

Aluminum alloy components are important contribution to lightweight transportations for improving energy efficiency. However, formability of aluminum alloys at room temperature often hinders their further applications in the automotive, rail, or aerospace industries. The solution heat treatment, forming, and in-die quenching (HFQ®) process is an advanced forming technology that performs both forming and heat treatment simultaneously in a single operation. Since its inception, a significant amount of research has been made on the process to develop it further and to assess the feasibility of using it to form components with increasingly complicated geometries, from a growing variety of alloys. This entry summarizes the HFQ® research work, with the emphasis on the development, modeling, and applications of the technology for stamping complex-shaped high-strength aluminum panel components.

Tribology in Sheet Metal Forming with Regard to Challenges in Lightweight Construction

2005 ◽  
Vol 6-8 ◽  
pp. 93-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Groche ◽  
T. Callies
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Sheet Metal ◽  
Sheet Metal Forming ◽  
Metal Forming ◽  
Tool Material ◽  
High Strength Steels ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Lightweight Construction ◽  
Metal Material ◽  
Tribological System

Today’s sheet metal forming is affected by several trends concerning sheet metal material. The sheet metal forming industry is thereby influenced by the reinforced demand of drawn components made of high strength steels, aluminum or magnesium because of economical and ecological reasons. Besides shifted mechanical properties, changing the sheet metal material influences the entire tribological system and therefore raises questions concerning the suitability of the tool material as well as the lubrication.

FAITH–BASED COMMUNITIES AND POLITICS IN DULLSTROOM-EMNOTWENI: LOCAL STORIES OF IDENTITY

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Landman
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
Cultural Conflicts ◽  
Local Identities ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
Local Municipality ◽  
The Face

A majority of the black community of Dullstroom-Emnotweni in the Mpumalanga highveld in the east of South Africa trace their descent back to the southern Ndebele of the so-called ‘Mapoch Gronden’, who lost their land in the 1880s to become farm workers on their own land. A hundred years later, in 1980, descendants of the ‘Mapoggers’ settled in the newly built ‘township’ of Dullstroom, called Sakhelwe, finding jobs on the railways or as domestic workers. Oral interviews with the inhabitants of Sakhelwe – a name eventually abandoned in favour of Dullstroom- Emnotweni – testify to histories of transition from landowner to farmworker to unskilled labourer. The stories also highlight cultural conflicts between people of Ndebele, Pedi and Swazi descent and the influence of decades of subordination on local identities. Research projects conducted in this and the wider area of the eMakhazeni Local Municipality reveal the struggle to maintain religious, gender and youth identities in the face of competing political interests. Service delivery, higher education, space for women and the role of faith-based organisations in particular seem to be sites of contestation. Churches and their role in development and transformation, where they compete with political parties and state institutions, are the special focus of this study. They attempt to remain free from party politics, but are nevertheless co-opted into contra-culturing the lack of service delivery, poor standards of higher education and inadequate space for women, which are outside their traditional role of sustaining an oppressed community.

FORMALOY

Alloy Digest ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Fracture Toughness ◽  
Compressive Strength ◽  
Corrosion Resistance ◽  
Sheet Metal ◽  
High Purity ◽  
Base Alloy ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Heat Treating ◽  
Grain Structure ◽  
Excellent Performance

Abstract FORMALOY is a high-strength, high-purity zinc-base alloy with excellent performance in dies for forming sheet metal. It has a fine, dense grain structure which contributes markedly to its good toughness, excellent machinability and ability to develop a high polish. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, elasticity, tensile properties, and compressive strength as well as fracture toughness. It also includes information on corrosion resistance as well as casting, forming, heat treating, machining, and joining. Filing Code: Zn-17. Producer or source: Federated Metals Corporation, ASARCO Inc..

Impact of Chatbot in Transforming the Face of Retailing- An Empirical Model of Antecedents and Outcomes

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kumari Anshu ◽  
Loveleen Gaur ◽  
Arun Solanki
Keyword(s):  
Research Work ◽  
Shopping Behavior ◽  
Model Framework ◽  
Shopping Experience ◽  
The Face ◽  
Strongly Agree ◽  
Different Characteristics ◽  
Work Done ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Self Administered Questionnaire

Chatbot has emerged as a significant resolution to the swiftly growing customer caredemands in recent times. Chatbot has emerged as one of the biggest technological disruption. Simply speaking, it is a software agent facilitating interaction between computers and humans in natural language. So basically, it is a simulated, intellectual dialogue agent functional in a range of consumer engagement circumstances. It is the easiest and simplest means enable interaction between the retailers and the customers. </p><p> • Purpose- Most of the research work done in this field is concerned with their technical aspects. The recent research on chatbot pay little attention to the impact it is creating on users’ experience. Through this work, author is making an effort to know the customer-oriented impact that the chatbot bear on the shoppers. The purpose of this study is to develop and empirically test a framework that identify the customer oriented attributes of chatbot and impact of these attributes on customers. </p><p> • Objectives- The study intends to bridge the gap between concepts and actual attributes and applications on the subject of Chatbot. The following research objectives can address the various aspects of Chatbot affecting the different characteristics of consumers shopping behaviors: a) Identify the various attributes of chatbot that bears an impression on consumer shopping behavior. b) Evaluate the impact of chatbot on consumer shopping behavior that leads to the development of chatbot usage and adoption among the customer. </p><p> • Design/Methodology/Approach – For the purpose of analysis, author has administered Factor analysis and Multiple regression using SPSS version 23 for identification of various attributes of Chatbot and knowing their impact on shoppers. A self-administered questionnaire from the review of literature is developed. Industry experts in the field of retailing and academician evaluate the questionnaire. Primary information from the respondents is gathered using this questionnaire. The questionnaire comprises of Likert scale on a scale of 1 to 5 where 1 stands for strongly disagree and 5 stands for strongly agree. Data is collected from 126 respondents, out of which 111 respondents were finally considered for study and analysis purpose. </p><p> • Findings – The empirical results show that the study identifies various attributes of chatbot like Trust, Usefulness, Satisfaction, Readiness to Use and Accessibility. It is also found that chatbot is really influencing the customers in providing them with shopping experience, which can be very helpful to the businesses for increasing the sales and creating repurchase intention among the customers. </p><p> • Originality/value – The recent research on chatbot pay little attention to the impact it is creating on customers who are actually interacting with it on regular basis. The research paper extends information for understanding and appreciating the customer oriented attributes of artificially intelligent Chatbot. In this regard, the author has developed a model framework and proposed the attributes identified. Through the work, author is also making an effort to test empirically the impact of the identified attributes on the shoppers.

scholarly journals Laser Welding of High-strength Aluminium Alloys for the Sheet Metal Forming Process

Procedia CIRP ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 203-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Enz ◽  
S. Riekehr ◽  
V. Ventzke ◽  
N. Sotirov ◽  
N. Kashaev
Keyword(s):  
Laser Welding ◽  
Sheet Metal ◽  
Sheet Metal Forming ◽  
Metal Forming ◽  
Aluminium Alloys ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Forming Process ◽  
Metal Forming Process
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