Wear Protection of Deep Drawing Tools by Systematic Optimization of Highly Stressed Surfaces

Abstract:

The automotive sector is one of the largest energy consumers in Germany. Requests from politics and industry to significantly reduce emissions require new developments during utilization as well as during production phase. In line with the framework concept "InnoCaT", where more than 60 companies and research facilities from Germany take part, possibilities for producing companies are developed and analyzed to reduce the resource and energy consumption and by this reducing costs along the entire process chain of car body manufacturing. One approach to design car bodies lighter and more efficiently is to use aluminium and high strength steels. By this means weight and sheet thickness are reduced. However higher strengths of the steels and the adhesion affinity of aluminium significantly increase the requirements regarding the used tool steel. Thus grooves or galling appear more frequent at highly stressed surfaces. To assure high lifetimes and by this increase especially the resource efficiency concerning use of material and setting-up times within the press plant, a local optimization at the highly stressed surfaces is necessary. For this a FEM/BEM-tool for a time efficient and exact calculation of the occurring tool loads for complex die profiles is developed. Based on this development of load calculation a shape-optimization is performed at the corresponding areas. After the geometric optimization of the tool a local laser surface treatment for further wear protection is carried out using laser cladding or laser alloying/ -dispersing. By combining the technologies a highly wear resistant surface is achievable, which increases the tool's lifetime as well as the reproducibility within production.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 907)
• Pages: 439-453
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.907.439
• Online since: April 2014
• Authors: Fritz Klocke*, Daniel Heinen, Fabian Schongen, Kristian Arntz, Yuan Liu, Vladimir Bäcker, Björn Feldhaus
• Keywords: Laser Surface Treatment, Tooling, Wear Protection

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