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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...

We are pleased to welcome IMMI to EWI membership. IMMI develops, designs, tests, and manufactures safety restraints and systems for car seats, heavy trucks, school buses, recreational/off road, military, fire/EMS, motor coach, and construction vehicles. The privately owned company is headquartered in Westfield, Indiana, with seven additional global facilities. IMMI is also home to the...