An Experimental and Numerical Study on Forming Force, Fracture Behavior, and Strain States in Two Point Incremental Forming Process

Abstract:

Two-point incremental sheet forming process (TPIF) is an emerging and promising manufacturing process for the production of complex geometries or customized functional sheet components. In this study, the single-pass TPIF process is investigated using experimental and numerical approaches to study the forming force evolution, fracture behavior and strain states with a varied wall angle hemisphere shape. It can be concluded that both the peak force and fracture depth increases with tool diameter and incremental depth in TPIF process. It seems the deformation mechanism or the failure mechanism is strongly dependent on particular forming conditions based on a failure parts morphology observation. FEM simulation results indicated that the major plastic strain is positive while the minor plastic strain is negative in the TPIF process on a hemiphere shape. it can be concluded that the strain increment and total equivalent plastic strain is affected by both tool diameter and incremental depth.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 725)
• Pages: 586-591
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.725.586
• Online since: December 2016
• Authors: Chen Hao Wang*, William J.T. Daniel, Hai Bo Lu, Sheng Liu, Paul Anthony Meehan
• Keywords: Forming Force, Fracture Behavior, Strain States, Two-Point Incremental Forming

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