Broad use of lightweight aluminium alloy parts in automobile manufacturing, aerospace,
electronic communication, and rail transit is mainly formed through deep drawing process …

Numerical simulation of sheet metal forming processes has become indispensable in the
last decades. Although the complexity of the frictional behaviour is identified as a key factor …

This article presents the friction test results for cold-rolled low-carbon DC06 steel sheets,
which are commonly processed into finished products using sheet metal forming methods. A …

For conventional sheet metal forming at room temperature, numerous tribometers were
developed in the 20th century. At the present state of the art, unsolved issues for tribometry …

The final quality of sheet and tube metal–formed components strongly depends on the
tribology and friction conditions between the tools and the material to be formed …

In the manufacturing industry, mass production enables manufacturers to produce parts with
high precision and lower costs. Multiple shifts operate production processes to maximize …

This article presents a dynamic model used in the modelling of heavy-duty robots that is
associated with an estimation method to determine the dynamic parameters of the robot and …

The numerical simulation of multi-strokes sheet metal cold forming is very CPU time
consuming especially if all relevant physical phenomena are considered. For a single stroke …

Forming processes undergo large temperature changes after production start eg after a tool
exchange or production stops; usually tool temperatures increase due to friction and forming …

During the running production of automotive body components drifts in the process window
is seen causing problems with non-conforming parts. Up until now, these drifts have been …