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Department of Mechanical Engineering

Property-Controlled Multi-Stage Hot Sheet Metal Forming

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  • Profil- und Blechumformung
  • Umformtechnische Grundlagenforschung
a) Closed-loop control and progressive die, b) Temperature drop during stretch drawing, c) Comparison of thinning © IUL
a) Closed-loop control and progressive die, b) Temperature drop during stretch drawing, c) Comparison of thinning
Funding German Research Foundation (DFG)
Project 424334660 (SPP 2183)
Contact Juri Martschin M. Sc.

In multi-stage hot sheet metal forming the final microstructure and part geometry result from the thermo-mechanical history throughout the process. With the aim of implementing a closed-loop control for these properties, control-oriented property models are derived. As a general basis a process chain in a progressive die is assumed in which a sheet metal blank is first heated and then hot-formed and simultaneously quenched in several stages (see Figure a). For a real-time estimation of thinning during hot stretch drawing in the described multi-stage setup an element-based, time-discrete property model is developed. This model is coupled with a soft sensor that estimates the temperature distribution in the sheet on the basis of thermometric data for every calculation time step of the property model. For a first validation of the property model the temperature drop during hot stretch drawing (see Figure b) is experimentally determined and passed on to the property model. A comparison of thinning calculated with the property model shows good agreement with the experimental data (see Figure c).