In recent years a steadily growing interest in applying lightweight construction concepts
could be observed. This development is accompanied by an increasing demand for innovative
forming strategies suitable for extending the forming limits of the typical lightweight materials.
Deep drawing combined with an integrated electromagnetic calibration step is an example of such a
technology. The feasibility and potential of this process combination is analyzed on the basis of a
demonstrator part from the automotive industry. Thereby, aspects related to the practicability of the
electromagnetic forming process itself are regarded as well as points related to the deep drawn
preform. The concept of a 3D-coil insert, integrated into a deep drawing punch in order to realize
the calibration in the deep drawing process, is introduced and based on the experimental results,
conclusions regarding the applicability of the process combination are drawn.
At present, hot stamping represents an innovative manufacturing process for forming of high strength steels, implying a sheet at austenite temperature being rapidly cooled down and formed into a die at the same time (quenching). This forming process is used for the manufacturing of automobile structural components with a strength of up to 1,500 MPa, thus enabling extensive cost savings and good crash performance. Better formability at elevated temperatures and lower springback are further advantages of parts formed by hot stamping. The Finite Element Analysis is an essential precondition for a good process design including all process parameters. This paper presents the finite element simulation of a hot stamping process by means of experimentally calculated material data and describes a number of procedures for the simulation of hot stamping, aiming at a notable decrease in computation time. For a faster calculation thermal and mechanical phenomena are decoupled in two simulation programs.
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