Experimental Cases in Aluminium Foils by Dieless Process and His Comparison with Others Conventional Sheet Metal Forming Process

Abstract

Incremental sheet forming by the method of single point incremental forming Dieless, is a widely studied process, experimented and developed in countries with high manufacturing technologies, with friendly costs when the productive configuration in a productivity system is based in small production batches. Previously mentioned, this work pretends to develop experimental cases in aluminum foils with 1 mm- thickness, and some specific process parameters, the analysis of forming limit curve (FLC), with the objective to emphasizes in this innovative method based in CAD-CAM technologies, compare with other analogous process of deformation sheet metal like embossing, deep drawing, stamping, spinning, superforming, take correct decisions about the viability and applicability of this process (Dieless) in a particular industrial piece, which responses to the necessities of productive configurations mentioned and be highly taken like a manufacturing alternative to the others conventional process of forming sheet metal , for systems with slow batches production.