Dieless forming of sheet metals

 Dieless forming of sheet metals

  • ISF forms sheet metal into complicated shapes without the use of conventional punch and die
  •  Local micro-deformations incrementally occur on the blank through a rotating and translating single point tool
  • Deformation of the sheet is achieved with or without a supporting,  fixed tool about which the single point forming tool moves (see Figure 1)
  • Being investigated by researchers  in the UK [1, 2], Japan [3], China [4, 5, 6], South Korea [7, 8], Italy [9, 10] and Germany [11]


                                                                                                                       
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