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Application of a Uniform Pressure Actuator for Electromagnetic Processing of Sheet Metal

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High-velocity electromagnetic sheet-metal forming and processing has many potential advantages over more conventional techniques, including: higher-forming limits, resistance to wrinkling and springback, one-sided tooling, and physical contact to only one side of the work piece. Traditional electromagnetic actuators are flat spirals that produce a nonuniform pressure distribution, limiting the types of parts that can be formed. A new type of electromagnetic actuator, the uniform pressure (UP) actuator, has been developed. The UP actuator can uniformly and efficiently accelerate conductive sheet metal to velocities on the order of 200 m/s or greater over distances of a few millimeters. When the material is arrested by impact with a tool, high-forming pressures can be imparted to it. The utility of the UP actuator is illustrated here by demonstrating its ability to form sheet metal components with intricate shape, to shock harden, and also to pick up nearly arbitrarily small details from a die surface. Thus, electromagnetic processing with the use of the UP actuator offers the unprecedented ability to simultaneously form and engineer the surface morphology and microstructure of sheet metal samples.

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This work was supported, in part, by a grant from General Motors to The Ohio State University.

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Golowin, S., Kamal, M., Shang, J. et al. Application of a Uniform Pressure Actuator for Electromagnetic Processing of Sheet Metal. J. of Materi Eng and Perform 16, 455–460 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11665-007-9085-4

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