Papers by Keyword: Sheared Edge Quality

Abstract: Due to a high specific strength, carbon fibre reinforced plastics (CFRP) enable material driven light-weighting of structural components. A constant increase of CFRP usage is predicted to continue in the future. At high production numbers blanking can be cost efficiently used for piercing or trimming operations of cured CFRP components. Compared with metals, sheared edges of blanked CFRP demonstrate fundamentally different morphology. Therefore, conventional characterization parameters cannot be used for an unambiguous characterization of the sheared edge quality. In the scope of this work, surface profile parameters were adopted for this purpose. The applicability of the quality parameters was successfully shown on the example of experimentally produced sheared edges. Furthermore, it was demonstrated that the proposed sheared edge quality parameters enable the quality assessment under process inherent variability of the sheared edge morphology in CFRP.

Abstract: Sheared edge quality of micro IT parts is an important standard to evaluate product quality. In this paper, a prediction model of sheared edge quality based on grey prediction is studied. By mapping the stroke and the burr width to be the time increment and the eigenvalue of grey system, the grey prediction model was established. The dynamic regularity of burr in actual production was attained from the precision blanking experiment and the prediction of burr width was performed. The results show that the model can predict burr width accurately and needs less sampling data. Thus, it is fit for the requirement of manufacturing.