Author:
Obikawa Toshiyuki, ,Sekine Tsutomu,
Abstract
Single Point Incremental Microforming (SPIMF) using neither dies nor a backing plate is applied to the fabrication of miniature shell structures of stainless steel foil in meso-scale. A piece of 8 µm-thick blank, which is held in a blank holder on a desktop forming machine, is incrementally formed with a thin, round-tip tool. Three kinds of polygonal pyramids are formed, and their forming limits are compared to those when 12 µm-thick aluminum foil is used. It is found that the forming limit of stainless steel foil in forming pyramids depends only on the tensile strain of a triangular lateral face, whereas that of aluminum foil depends on the sum of two principal tensile strains on the surface of a rounded lateral edge. It is also found that the forming limit of stainless steel foil can be drastically increased by SPIMF.
Publisher
Fuji Technology Press Ltd.
Subject
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering,Mechanical Engineering
Cited by
3 articles.
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