Influence of the Different Combination of Diameters of Two Tool Heads on Forming Quality in Double Sided Incremental Forming

Abstract:

The existing double sided incremental forming (DSIF) mostly uses two tools with the same diameter as the upper/lower tools, which is not conducive to improve the forming quality and forming efficiency. In this paper, the influence of the different combination of the upper and lower tool head diameters on the thickness distribution and the contour dimension accuracy of the formed part is studied by using ANSYS / LS-DYNA software and by taking the model with bidirectional convex features as the research object. It is found that the reasonable combination of different diameters of the upper/lower tools based on the characteristics of the parts to be formed can improve the forming quality and forming efficiency.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 904)
• Pages: 20-25
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.904.20
• Online since: November 2021
• Authors: Xian Rui Wang, Hu Zhu, Dong Won Jung*
• Keywords: Double Sided Incremental Forming, Forming Quality, Sheet Forming, Tool Size

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