• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.338-343
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• 2007

We presented a special method of forging hollow shafts of hard-to-form material, which is composed of piercing with back pressing and hollow shaft extrusion. The presented method was applied to cold forging a bushing of an excavator. The finite element simulation technology was employed for developing the optimized process and the predictions were compared with the experiments. The method was also applied to an automotive part and was verified to be powerful for manufacturing the cold forged hollow shafts of the hard-to-form materials.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.450-455
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• 2017

A shield connector is an automotive electrical component that is used to connect electrical wiring in a vehicle. This part is made by progressive pressing using a phosphor bronze material with high electrical conductivity. The shape of the product is not complicated, but plastic forming techniques are required, such as deep drawing and bending, as well as shearing techniques such as piercing and notching. The finite element method was used to model the process. The strip layout design stage of the progressive die makes it possible to examine the thickness change, the stability of the forming process, and the spring-back. As a result of this analysis, it is possible to predict the correction values for the tendency of cracks, wrinkles, and incomplete plastic deformation, and to identify possible problems in advance. As a countermeasure against the forming error caused by the drawing process analysis, the drawing shape was modified and applied in the process design. For effective material utilization, a 3D strip layout was designed using an optimized blank shape based on nesting. The results improve the crack stability and spring-back of shield connector products produced through progressive pressing.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.75-80
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• 2008

The progressive die performs a work of sheet metal processes with a piercing, notching, embossing, bending, drawing, cut-off etc. in many kinds of pressing. Now a days, these processes have been evaluated as a advanced tooling method to increase the productivity and high quality assurance. The first step analyzing of die design is production part review, then the arrangement drawing of product design and strip process layout design should be done as a next steps with a FEM simulation for its problem solution. After upper procedure were peformed, it was started to make the die, then tryout and its revision of the die and product quality, safety, productivity etc. were done continually. For the all of these process, we mobilized the theory and practice of sheet metal forming, die structure, the function and activity of die components, and the others of die machining, die material, heat treatment and know‐how so on. In this study the features of representative are production part analyzing through the FEM simulation of bending area with a considering spring back problem by DEFORM.