Experimental and numerical determination of the tensile stresses in the wall during steel sheet ironing

Abstract

This paper is dealing with analysis of the ironing process, by application of the experimental modeling and numerical FE simulations. Since the two approaches are complementary, abundance of obtained results enables overall analysis of the process with taking into account numerous influential factors and their interactions on the output process performances ad the quality of the machined piece. Experimentally obtained results were confirmed by numerical FE analysis, which were realized at the same levels of the influential factors, for the purpose of verification and additional explaining of the process nature, as well as understanding the influence of various parameters on the machined piece wall tensile stress in the selected experiments.