Effects of forming parameters on fatigue life in incremental sheet punching

Abstract

In order to investigate the effects of main forming parameters on the fatigue life in incremental sheet punching, wavelength and amplitude were selected as factors, and fatigue life of truncated pyramids and virgin material was selected as indicator. The effects of the parameters were identified whereby the design of full factorial experiment, fatigue comparative test, analysis of variance, Tukey test, and t-test. It was found that wavelength and amplitude significantly affect the fatigue life. In addition, the improvement of fatigue life decreased with the increment of wavelength and increased with the increment of amplitude when it is less than a certain value, followed by decreasing.