Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2004. / Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xxv, 222 p.; also includes graphics (some color). Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-191).

Thesis (M.S.)--Texas State University--San Marcos, 2009. / Vita. Appendix: leaves 73-133 . Includes bibliographical references (leaves 68-72 ). Also available on microfilm.

Thesis (M. Eng.)--Carleton University, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 100-119). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rhode Island, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 213-220).

Thesis (MTech (Mechanical Engineering))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2016. / The purpose of this study is the optimisation of the stamping analysis process in order to investigate the possible reasons for the part failure. (Altan & Vasquez, 2000) have conducted similar research to optimise a forming process. However, they focussed on dies for a forging process and in this study, we are looking at cold forming and this study is also different in that we are trying to reduce the number of stages while maintaining the formability. Formability is based on the dimensional conformance of the final part with additional criteria being the thinning, appearance of wrinkling, dynamic effects leading to the localisation of strain, cracking and residual stress. A numerical modelling procedure that is close enough to the real process is used to investigate the effects of changes in the frictional contact that would correspond to lubrication and also the effect of adding draw beads to the forming tools to change the frictional contact. We also investigated the effect of using a different material in terms of meeting the design requirements. Experimental results for comparison are available for certain of the stamping processes investigated that were tested in pre-production. The finite element simulation is used to account for all residual thinning, stress and strain of the multi-stage forming process to ensure optimum thickness changes of the sheet at each stage. The variations of material and manufacturing parameters are established to accurately predict the behaviour of this specific forming process. The material model required to meet physical experiments is deduced from the results of standard tensile tests and fitted to the Hill’s 48 Law for Work Hardening. The commercial packages Ls-Dyna with Dynaform and Pam-Stamp software are used for the simulation to produce 2 results for comparison.

Le vrillage est un mode de retour élastique particulier, qui se produit suite à la mise en forme par emboutissage de pièces allongées, à savoir dont une des dimensions est grande devant les deux autres. Le vrillage est caractérisé par la torsion de la pièce autour d’un axe parallèle à la plus grande dimension. D’un point de vue expérimental, le vrillage représente un véritable défi, du fait de la grande dimension, de l’ordre du mètre, des pièces industrielles et de la grande dispersion des valeurs caractéristiques de vrillage obtenues pour un même procédé et un même matériau. En conséquence, l’étude du vrillage en utilisant une échelle réduite sur l’ensemble des dimensions outils et pièce est retenue pour ce travail de thèse, avec un intérêt particulier pour l’influence de l’alignement tôle/outils sur l’intensité du vrillage.L’objectif général de ce travail de thèse est l’étude expérimentale et numérique du vrillage de pièces en forme de U, à partir de flans de longueur 100 mm et d’épaisseur 0,15 mm. Une première partie concerne la caractérisation et modélisation du comportement mécanique du matériau, un acier inoxydable. Des essais mécaniques de traction et cisaillement simple ont été réalisés, avec une mesure locale sans contact du champ de déformation. L’écrouissage ainsi que l’évolution de la pente à la décharge ont été caractérisés, et les paramètres d’un modèle élasto-plastique avec écrouissage mixte et dépendance du module d’Young avec la déformation plastique équivalente ont été identifiés à partir de ces essais.Afin de constituer une base expérimentale sur le vrillage, un dispositif spécifique a été conçu et usiné dans le cadre de cette thèse. Des essais d’emboutissage de flans rectangulaires, de dimensions 100 x 28 mm2, pour atteindre une forme de U de profondeur 7 mm, ont été réalisés. L’alignement de l’éprouvette avec le poinçon et la matrice a été particulièrement contrôlé et deux orientations ont été étudiées : l’éprouvette est soit alignée avec le poinçon, soit désalignée de 2° par rapport à son centre. La forme finale des éprouvettes a été mesurée avec un scanner laser. Le vrillage est caractérisé par le rapport de l’angle entre le fond de deux sections extrêmes sur leur distance respective. Un vrillage de 11°.m-1 a été mesuré pour les éprouvettes désalignées, tandis que pour les éprouvettes alignées, aucun vrillage significatif n’a été obtenu. L’étude des sections transversales de l’éprouvette montre une corrélation entre l’asymétrie du retour élastique causée par l’asymétrie de la géométrie de l’éprouvette, dans le cas désaligné, et le vrillage. Le glissement de l’éprouvette sous le poinçon au cours de l’essai affecte également le vrillage quelque soit l’orientation de l’éprouvette.Finalement, la simulation numérique de la mise en forme d’un flan en forme de U a été effectuée avec le code de calcul Abaqus®. Un solveur explicite est utilisé pour l’étape d’emboutissage et un solveur implicite pour le retour élastique. L’influence de la taille de maillage, ainsi que celle de la loi de comportement du matériau ont été étudiées. Les résultats de la simulation numérique sont alors confrontés aux résultats expérimentaux. / Twisting of metallic sheets is one particular mode of springback that occurs after drawing of elongated parts, i.e. with one dimension much larger than the two others. Twisting is usually characterized by the disorientation angle between the two end sections which turn around an axis parallel to the greatest dimension. From experimental point of view, twisting is very challenging because a lot of data were obtained on industrial-type parts, with one dimension of the order of the meter. These data are usually very dispersed and with the same process parameters, material and geometry, very different values for the twisting parameter can be obtained. As a consequence, the study of twisting phenomenon by using a reduced scale for all the dimensions of the tools and blank is retained in this work of. The influence of the blank alignment with the tools on the intensity of the twisting parameter was particular investigated.The objective of the thesis is the experimental and numerical study of the twisting of U-shaped part, obtained from stainless steel blanks with a length of 100 mm and thickness of 0.15 mm. The first part relates to the characterization and modeling of the material mechanical behavior. Conventional tests such as tension and simple shear were performed. The kinematic contribution to the hardening and the evolution of the loading-unloading slope with the plastic deformation were carried out. The parameters of an elastic-plastic model based on a mixed hardening and degradation of Young’s modulus with the equivalent plastic strain have been identified from these tests.In order to establish an experimental database for twisting, a dedicated device for drawing U-shaped elongated parts was designed and manufactured. Deep-drawing of rectangular blanks, of dimensions 100 x 28 mm2, to achieve a U-shape rail of 7 mm of depth was performed. Two different orientations of the part with respect to the tools were chosen: either aligned with the tools, or purposefully misaligned by 2°. The geometry of the part after springback was laser scanned. Twisting is characterized by the disorientation angle in-between the two end sections of the part over the distance. Several samples were drawn for each configuration, leading to the conclusion that almost no twisting occurs in the first case whereas a twisting parameter of 11°.m-1 corresponded to the second one. The analysis of the geometry of cross sections has shown a correlation between twisting and asymmetry of springback, like the opening of the U-shaped rail, caused by the asymmetry of the blank in the misaligned case. The sliding of the blank beneath the punch during the process also affects twisting whatever its orientation. Finally, finite element simulation of the drawing process, for the two configurations of the blank, within the explicit framework for drawing and implicit one for springback, were carried out using Abaqus® software. The influences of the mesh size as well as the material behavior law on the intensity of twisting parameter were studied. Numerical predictions were compared with experiments.

Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1982. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ENGINEERING / by Peter Thompson. / B.S.

After the review of the basic theory of the inverse method, a new modified arc-length search method is proposed to find better initial solution. The methods to deal with the vertical walls are also discussed and presented. Then, a generalized multi-step inverse FEM method is proposed. It solves two key obstacles: the first one is to determine the initial solution of the intermediate three-dimensional configurations and the other is to control the movement of nodes so they could only slide on constraint surfaces during the search by Newton-Raphson iteration. The computer implementation of the generalized multi-step inverse FEM is also presented. By comparing to the simulation results using a commercial software system, the effectiveness of the new method is validated. / Currently, there are a number of commercial FEM software systems available in the market. These software systems are based on an incremental FEM process that models the sheet metal stamping process in small incremental steps. Even though the incremental FEM is accurate, it is not suitable for the initial conceptual design for its needing of detailed design parameters and enormous calculation times. As a result, another type of FEM, called the inverse FEM method or one-step FEM method, has been proposed. While it is less accurate than that of the incremental method, this method requires much less computation and hence, has a great potential. However, it also faces a number of unsolved problems, which limits its application. This motivates the presented research. / From a physical point of view, the formability and the quality of a product are influenced by several factors. The design of the product in the initial stage and the motion of the press during the production stage are two of these crucial factors. This thesis focuses on the numerical simulation for these two factors using FEM. / Other than the product design, the punch motion (including punch speed and punch trajectory) of the stamping press also has significant effect on the formability and the quality of the product. In fact, this is one of the major reasons why hydraulic presses and/or servo presses are used for parts which demand high quality. In order to reveal the quantitative correlation between the punch motion and the part quality, the Cowper-Symonds strain rate constitutive model and the implicit dynamic incremental FEM are combined to conduct the research. The effects of the punch motion on the part quality, especially the plastic strain distribution and the potential springback, have been investigated for the deep drawing and the bending processes respectively. A qualitative relationship between the punch motion and the part quality is also derived. / The reaction force of the punch motion causes the dynamic deformation of the press during the stamping, which in turn influences the part quality as well. This dynamic information, in the form of the strain signal, is an important basis for the on-line monitoring of the part quality. By using the actual force as the input to the press, the incremental FEM is needed to predict the strain of the press. The result is validated by means of experiments and can be used to assist the on-line monitoring. / The sheet metal stamping process plays an important role in modern industry. With the ever-increasing demand for shape complexity, product quality and new materials, the traditional trial and error method for setting up a sheet metal stamping process is no longer efficient. As a result, the Finite Element Modeling (FEM) method has now been widely used. / Huang Ying. / "March 2006." / Adviser: Ruxu Du. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-11, Section: B, page: 6694. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-160). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / School code: 1307.

In this research, an approach is developed to automate the design for sheet metal parts that are not only novel and manufacturable but also satisfies multiple objective functions such as material cost. Unlike commercial software tools such as Pro/SHEETMETAL which aids the user in finalizing and determining the sequence of manufacturing operations for a specified component, our approach starts with spatial constraints in order to create the component geometries and helps the designer design. While there is an enormous set of parts that can feasibly be generated with sheet metal, it is difficult to define this space systematically. To solve this problem, we currently have 108 design rules that have been developed for five basic sheet metal operations: slitting, notching, shearing, punching and bending. The technique revealed here represents candidate solutions as a graph of nodes and arcs where each node is a rectangular patch of sheet metal, and modifications are progressively made to the sheet to maintain the parts manufacturability. They are presented in the form of Standard Tessellation Language files (.stl) that can be transferred into available modeling software for further analysis. The overall purpose of this research is to provide creative designs to the designer granting him/her a new perspective and to check all the solutions for manufacturability in the early stage of design process. The abovementioned automation approach uses a new topological optimization technique to solve graph based engineering design problems by decoupling parameters and topology changes. This technique namely Topological and Parametric Tune and Prune (TP²) is the first topology optimization method that has been developed specifically for domains representable by a graph grammar schema. The method is stochastic and incorporates distinct phases for modifying the topologies and modifying parameters stored within topologies. Thus far, with the problems that been tested, (TP²) had proven better than genetic algorithm in terms of the quality of solutions and time taken to acquire them. / text

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