A New Strategy for Manufacturing Tailored Blanks by a Flexible Rolling Process

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Applying bulk forming processes on sheet metals enables the manufacturing of functional components with local wall thickness distributions. Using tailored blanks improves the forming of the functional components and increases the material efficiency. One process for manufacturing tailored blanks with defined sheet thickness distributions is a flexible rolling process. However, this process requires a complex process strategy. Additionally, tailored blanks out of high-strength steels from this process have failed in subsequent forming. Thus, a new rolling concept with a defined shaping of the material into a die cavity has been developed. This new concept requires the development of a new process strategy. In this paper, the general qualification and first results of the new concept are presented.

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