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EWI is pleased to welcome Crenlo to membership. Crenlo is a leading manufacturer of engineered steel frame cab enclosures and rollover structures serving major OEM's in the construction, agriculture, and commercial equipment markets. Crenlo also produces a proprietary line of electronic enclosures under its EMCOR trademark, which serves the commercial, telecom, datacom, test & measurement,...

Springback is a critical challenge of forming and welding sheet metal parts for manufacturing applications in the aerospace, automotive, energy, electronics, and heavy manufacturing industries. Springback measurements can vary with material properties, stress-strain variables, part geometry, friction between forming tools, etc. It is difficult to eliminate springback during cold forming processes, but it can be...

While the VDA tight bend radius test is the standard in industry, it does not measure strain fracture limits. EWI has created a new bendability testing method that combines the VDA test with digital image correlation (DIC) to produce much more accurate results. The experiments conducted to validate this new approach tested seven different advanced...