Tag: Steel
Hemming feasibility
We had the honor to be selected as the computer simulation partner for a recent Auto/Steel Partnership (A/SP) study that considered the feasibility of...
Material Matters: Knowing your limit
The Formability of sheet metals
Previous posts Materials Matters, "the known unknowns" and “Material plasticity visualized” covered the general aspects, common terminology, and formulation of...
Success Story: Godrej Tooling implements robust compensation
Springback of sheet metal stamped parts is a challenge faced by tooling suppliers and their customers; parts produced in stamping dies require significant effort...
The Stamping System
A recurring theme on this blog, so far, has been sources of variation in production that might not be apparent to engineers when defining,...
Why is springback worse for HSS and AHSS?
It seems that you cannot have a discussion about High Strength Steel (HSS) and Advanced High Strength Steel (AHSS) without springback shortly becoming the...
Material Matters: as-shipped vs. as-engineered material
Are all coils created equal? Various coils have potentially different mechanical properties. Source image attribution: www.terexmphs.com
In tryout and production the engineering “boundary conditions” used...
