Multistage Deep-Drawing with Alternating Blank Draw-in for Springback Reduction in Transfer and Progressive Dies

Abstract:

Cold formed sheet metal parts made of advanced high-strength steels (AHSS) offer a high potential for a lightweight, durable and economic design. However, manufacturing dedicated, high-strength parts with cold forming technologies such as conventional deep-drawing often results in unacceptable shape deviations due to elastic springback after unloading the part from the forming tools. Therefore, various springback compensation methods have been established to ensure dimensional quality of such sheet metal parts. At the Institute for Metal Forming Technology (IFU Stuttgart), deep-drawing with alternating blank draw-in was developed in this context as a new approach to reduce springback and enhance cold forming of AHSS sheet metal parts. Presented work provides numerical sensitivity analysis as well as experimental studies about this new forming method. The asymmetric and alternating blank draw-in, which is changed within a multistage forming process sequence, results in an alternated bending over tool radii and leads to a beneficial stress superposition in the part wall area with reduced springback phenomena. Compared to conventional deep-drawn sheet metal components, springback of a benchmark part geometry could thus be reduced over 75 % by a three-stage forming process with an optimized blank draw-in kinematic.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 926)
• Pages: 674-682
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/p-25ow1x
• Online since: July 2022
• Authors: David Briesenick*, Mathias Liewald
• Keywords: High-Strength Steel, Multistage Metal Forming, Springback Compensation

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