With the increasing use of high-strength steels and rapid tooling (RT) techniques for tool production, wear is becoming more and more important in the field of sheet metal forming, as it is closely linked to the lifetime and maintenance of tools. Therefore, it is crucially important to predict tool wear already as the tool is being designed. This thesis contributes to prediction of wear behavior of sheet metal forming tools with the help of numerical methods. With the developed wear simulation software and the suggested wear model, it is possible to compute tool wear qualitatively and quantitatively at any stage of the tool life.
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With the increasing use of high-strength steels and rapid tooling (RT) techniques for tool production, wear is becoming more and more important in the field of sheet metal forming, as it is closely linked to the lifetime and maintenance of tools. Therefore, it is crucially important to predict tool wear already as the tool is being designed. This thesis contributes to prediction of wear behavior of sheet metal forming tools with the help of numerical methods. With the developed wear simulation s...
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