scholarly journals Prototyping of Straight Section Components Using Incremental Shape Rolling

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdelrahman Essa ◽  
Buddhika Abeyrathna ◽  
Bernard Rolfe ◽  
Matthias Weiss
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Model ◽  
High Strength Steels ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Variable Cross Section ◽  
Roll Forming ◽  
Variable Cross ◽  
Straight Section ◽  
Forming Process ◽  
Shape Rolling ◽  
Residual Strains

Abstract Flexible Roll Forming (FRF) allows the forming of components with a variable cross-section along the length of the component. However, the process has only limited application in the automotive industry due to wrinkling in the flange which currently prevents the forming of high strength steels and limits the part shape complexity. This paper presents a new forming technology, Incremental Shape Rolling (ISR), where a pre-cut blank is clamped between two dies and then a single forming roll is used to incrementally form the material to the desired shape. The new process is similar to some Incremental Sheet Forming (ISF) approaches but with the difference that Incremental Shape Rolling (ISR) allows the manufacture of longitudinal components from high strength metal sheets. In this work, a numerical model of the ISR of a straight section is developed. Experimental prototyping trials are performed and are used to validate the numerical model which is then applied to analyse the new forming process. The results show that in ISR, tensile residual strains are developed in the flange. Flange wrinkling is observed and directly linked to the number of forming passes that are used in the process.

Analysis of Flexible Roll Forming Process with Arc Shape Panel

2015 ◽  
Vol 799-800 ◽  
pp. 439-442
Author(s):  
Ya Zhang ◽  
Dae Hwan Yoon ◽  
Dong Won Jung
Keyword(s):  
Cross Sections ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Variable Cross Section ◽  
Roll Forming ◽  
Variable Cross ◽  
Transportation Engineering ◽  
Forming Process ◽  
Flexible Roll Forming ◽  
Flexible Roll ◽  
Arc Shape

Roll forming is a highly useful and important forming technique for sheet metal. As an economic profile product, roll forming products are widely used in transportation, engineering machinery, and civil construction because of their uniform sections, high strength, and low energy consumption[1]. Roll forming is a rapid processing operation used for transforming flat sheets of material into useful profiled sections. However, a lot of components used in the automobile, railway cars, ship construction, and building industries have variable cross sections. Therefore, flexible roll forming was developed recently to produce variable cross section profiles.

Finite Element Simulation of Chain-Die Forming U Profiles with Variable Cross-Section

2017 ◽  
Vol 898 ◽  
pp. 1177-1182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y.G. Li ◽  
Y. Sun ◽  
H.L. Huang ◽  
D.Y. Li ◽  
S.C. Ding
Keyword(s):  
Finite Element ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
High Strength Steels ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Variable Cross Section ◽  
Roll Forming ◽  
Variable Cross ◽  
Advanced High Strength Steels ◽  
Die Forming

Roll forming has been widely used to manufacture constant cross-section products because of high quality, efficiency and low cost. It is quite epidemic in producing automobile parts made of advanced high strength steels (AHSS) nowadays. However, with the development of the vehicle industry and diversity of the products, variable cross-section profiles have attracted more and more attention. The traditional roll forming technique is difficult to meet the requirements. Chain-die forming which was introduced in recent years makes it possible. Chain-die forming is an extension of roll forming and its key characteristic is enlarging the rotation radii of the moulds, by which the deformation zone is extended. The study focused on the finite element simulations of Chain-die forming U profiles with variable cross-section, including variable width and height. The feasibility of Chain-die forming producing variable cross-section products was verified by the perfect simulation results. The advantage of Chain-die forming was that there was no need to design the intermediate moulds except the finished-profile ones, which reduced the mould quantity immensely. Then the cost was lower.

Springback Investigation in Roll Forming of a V-Section

2014 ◽  
Vol 553 ◽  
pp. 643-648 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akbar Abvabi ◽  
Joseba Mendiguren ◽  
Bernard F. Rolfe ◽  
Matthias Weiss
Keyword(s):  
Elastic Modulus ◽  
Continuous Process ◽  
High Strength Steels ◽  
Shell Element ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Material Model ◽  
The Body ◽  
Roll Forming ◽  
Forming Process ◽  
Advanced High Strength Steels

To have fuel efficient vehicles with a lightweight structure, the use of High Strength Steels (HSS) and Advanced High Strength Steels (AHSS) in the body of automobiles is increasing. Roll forming is used widely to form AHSS materials. Roll forming is a continuous process in which a flat strip is shaped to the desired profile by passing through numerous sets of rolls. Formability and springback are two major concerns in the roll forming of AHSS materials. Previous studies have shown that the elastic modulus (Young’s modulus) of AHSS materials can change when the material undergoes plastic deformation and the main goal of this study is to numerically investigate the effect of a change in elastic modulus during forming on springback in roll forming. Experimental loading-unloading tests have been performed to obtain the material properties of TRIP 700 steel and incorporate those in the material model used in the numerical simulation of the roll forming process. The finite element simulations were carried out using MSC-Marc and two different element types, a shell element and a solid-shell element, were investigated. The results show that the elastic modulus diminution due to plastic strain increases the springback angle by about 60% in the simple V-section roll forming analyzed in this study.

Study of Formability of Steel Thick Plates for Offshore Structures

2014 ◽  
Vol 622-623 ◽  
pp. 322-329
Author(s):  
Kwang Soo Park ◽  
Sook Hwan Kim ◽  
Dong Kyu Kim
Keyword(s):  
Process Analysis ◽  
High Strength Steels ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Offshore Structures ◽  
Roll Forming ◽  
Offshore Structure ◽  
Forming Process ◽  
Sea Bed ◽  
Jack Up ◽  
Roll Forming Process

A jack-up rig or a self-elevating unit is a type of mobile platform that consists of a buoyant hull fitted with a number of movable legs, capable of raising its hull over the surface of the sea. The buoyant hull enables transportation of the unit and all attached machinery to a desired location. Once on location the hull is raised to the required elevation above the sea surface on its legs supported by the sea bed. The legs of such units may be designed to penetrate the sea bed, may be fitted with enlarged sections or footings, or may be attached to a bottom mat. Generally Jack up rigs are not self-propelled and rely on tugs or heavy lift shipsfor transportation. Formability problems in offshore structure construction where particularly high-strength steels are used for chords and racks. Attainment of mechanical properties is not usually difficult, although procedural trials are advisable. Fatigue cracking is probably the major cause of service failure of jack-up rigs, and the use of high-strength steels, which permits higher static stress limits, can exacerbate this problem. Roll forming process is one of the most widely used processes in the world for forming metals. It can manufacture goods of the uniform cross section throughout the continuous processing. However, process analysis is very difficult because of the inherent complexity. Therefore, it is time-consuming and much money is needed for manufacturing goods. In order to overcome this difficulty, a new computational method based on the rigid-plastic finite element method is developed for the analysis of roll forming process.

Friction Coefficient Identification in Roll Forming Processes

2014 ◽  
Vol 611-612 ◽  
pp. 425-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lander Galdos ◽  
Unai Ulibarri ◽  
Imanol Gil ◽  
Rafael Ortubay ◽  
Eneko Sáenz de Argandoña
Keyword(s):  
High Strength Steels ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Roll Forming ◽  
High Yield ◽  
High Yield Strength ◽  
Forming Process ◽  
Advanced High Strength Steels ◽  
High Production Rate ◽  
High Production ◽  
Roll Forming Process

Roll forming process is an interesting process for the production of complex profiles because of its high production rate, low investment and efficient use of material. Furthermore, and due to their high yield strength, this technology is suitable for the forming of Advanced High Strength Steels which are being increasingly introduced in the automobile sector.

Dimensional Deviation of Roll Formed Components Made of High Strength Steel

2007 ◽  
Vol 344 ◽  
pp. 285-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Groche ◽  
Michael Henkelmann
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Control Process ◽  
High Strength Steels ◽  
Dimensional Accuracy ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Roll Forming ◽  
Forming Process ◽  
Forming Technology ◽  
Quality Control Process

During the last half century roll forming has become a highly productive metal forming technology, well-established in the industry for the manufacturing of mass products. About 8 % of the annual world production of steel is processed by roll forming mills. Roll forming technology enables the manufacturing of profile-shaped products with an extremely wide spectrum of geometrical shapes. In lightweight construction, the utilization of roll-formed structures of high and ultra-high-strength steels has increased remarkably in the recent years. However, the application of those types of steel entails some disadvantages resulting in a decreasing forming capacity and enormous efforts to reach the required dimensional accuracy. Until a profile leaves the roll forming machine with the target quality, it is mostly necessary to align the forming rolls several times. Sometimes even design changes are required. This is the result of unreliable process planning. Furthermore, typical profile failures such as twist, flare and spring-back occur even stronger compared to mild steels. Nowadays, it is usual to control the dimensional accuracy of the profiles after the last forming stand. This kind of quality control has the following disadvantage: manufacturing errors are detected very late. Therefore, a continuous quality control process and an active manipulation during the forming process promise a large potential for an improvement of the dimensional accuracy and an increase of roll forming productivity.

State of the Art: Prototyping of the Roll Bending Machine

2013 ◽  
Vol 549 ◽  
pp. 76-83
Author(s):  
Jarmo Mäkikangas ◽  
Kari Kutuniva ◽  
Kari Mäntyjärvi
Keyword(s):  
High Strength Steels ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Roll Forming ◽  
Modular Construction ◽  
Forming Process ◽  
Roll Bending ◽  
Short Run ◽  
New Type ◽  
Ultra High Strength Steels ◽  
Functional Components

This paper focuses on the development of a new type of roll bending machine. Our primary aim was to build a machine that could form ultra-high-strength steels (UHS) with smaller inner radii than those achieved by traditional bending methods. One of the main planning principles was modular construction, so a length of a bending line could be easily selected or changed later by the user without major changes to the basic construction of the machine. In contrast, in traditional roll forming, the blank does not move during the forming process, so the accuracy of the profile can be better controlled. Different kinds of cut to size-open profiles can be produced by this machine, which utilizes and combines bending and rolling techniques. In the initial stages of the project, the needs of smaller companies that do short-run productions are taken into account. First, the prototype is designed mainly for research use; moreover, it is important that the properties of the machine are multifunctional. In addition, forming can be done in several ways by this machine. In this paper, there is shown creation of a machine, designing of construction and manufacturing steps of the whole machine including assembling. Also detailed description of the various functional components and the operating principle is presented. The results of the forming tests are also presented.

Finite Element Simulation and Experimental Study on Isothermal Forging Technology for a Complex-Shaped Titanium Alloy Wing

2013 ◽  
Vol 575-576 ◽  
pp. 523-526
Author(s):  
Feng Cheng ◽  
Hong Yan Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Titanium Alloy ◽  
Variable Cross Section ◽  
Hydraulic Press ◽  
Asymmetric Structure ◽  
Variable Cross ◽  
Forming Process ◽  
Isothermal Forging ◽  
Filling Ability ◽  
Simulation Results ◽  
Mechanical Performances

A closed isothermal forging process was adopted for precision forming of the Ti-6Al-4V wing with a variable cross-section asymmetric structure. Firstly, simulations under different process parameters, such as the deformation temperature, punchs velocity et al. were analyzed with DEFORM-3D software to eliminate the defects in the isothermal forming process. The simulation results demonstrated that the loads during isothermal deformation were determined not just by the forging temperature but the punchs velocity, the less velocity of punch, the better filling ability, and yet temperatures from 900 to 950°C had less influence on filling ability. To verify the validity of simulation results, the isothermal forging experiment was carried out on an isothermal forging hydraulic press (THP10-630). It is demonstrated that the optimized billet dimension can ensure the quality of forging part and the titanium alloy wing component with complex shape was successfully forged with the punch speed of 0.1mm/s at 950°C and its mechanical performances were improved.

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