This document prescribes a model investigation the effect of potential parameters
influencing the blanking process and their interaction. The blanking process optimization …

During the past decade, two clear trends have been observed in the production of metal
components. Firstly, time-to-market needs to be shortened in order to introduce new …

The sheet metal industry has seen more technological advances than any other since the
last century. Right from hand-forming processes to finite element based simulation, the …

Due to the improvement of the mechanical properties of polymer composite belts used in
vacuum belt conveyors, its perforation process causes a lot of technical issues for …

Metal blanking is a widely used process in high volume production of sheet metal
components. The main objective of this paper is to present the development of a model to …

Blanking processes belong to the most widely used manufacturing techniques due to their
economic efficiency. Their economic viability depends to a large extent on the resulting …

The requirements for the fineblanking (FB) technology that the precision blanked products
could be obtained are more demanding. Therefore, the optimal die design and working …

The technical process of fine-blanking with negative clearance is introduced in this paper.
Under the guidance of the Cockcroft and Latham fracture criteria, possible damage and …

Meso/microforming of bulk multi-scaled parts and components by directly using sheet metals
is an efficient approach to realizing mass production of meso-/micro-scaled bulk structures …

In this paper, we present a comprehensive experimental and numerical study of the sheet
metal blanking process. Various blanking tests involving different materials and geometry …