Online Activities Development to Improve the Understanding of the Processes for Sheet Cold Forming

Abstract

When it comes to teaching of manufacturing processes and more specifically in the related processes to sheet metal forming, communication technologies now allow the development of set of online activities in order to enable the student to understand some of the scientific basis of this process. The aim of this paper is the introduction of new teaching methodologies in the learning of subjects, to get more involved students in the learning process. To this end, activities that allow the simulation of metal sheet forming processes have been realised. These processes are required to manufacture a workpiece, thus understanding the required force to the process and analyzing the stress and temperatures developed during the process enable to students to make decisions on the suitability of the process. This paper develops the mentioned activities and connects them with the skills to be acquired by distance learning students, join with their implementation.