Forming (Page 3)

The EWI Forming Center Consortium (FCC) is a member-based industry and research group that offers its partners opportunities for cross-industry technical exchange, joint research, and shared services. Its goal is to advance sheet metal forming technology through organized and focused activities as applied to formability, lubricant evaluation, process design, and process innovation. R&D projects for...

Aluminum and advanced high-strength steels (AHSS) have been increasingly applied to automotive structural components which allow for improvements in crashworthiness without corresponding weight increases. However, these materials bring along challenges of controlling or compensating springback in design and production phases. Excessive springback causes fit and finish issues and is very difficult to eliminate or reduce...

How can you control or compensate for springback in stamped parts when using new, advanced high-strength sheet metals? EWI has recently developed a specialized tool that is capable of assessing springback behavior without any wrinkling or necking on the tested part. The work is described in S-rail Test Tool for Evaluating Springback with High-strength Aluminum...