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Although in the last years a large amount of research work has been spent on incremental sheet forming process, industrial applications are not spreading accordingly. This is due to process characteristics such as slowness and limited accuracy. In the paper, the authors investigated the suitability of incremental sheet forming at very high feed rates to strongly reduce processing time. What is more, a simple strategy to reduce the part inaccuracy was implemented. The investigation concerned a simple conical shape but the obtained results are quite general.
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Ambrogio, G., Filice, L. & Gagliardi, F. Improving industrial suitability of incremental sheet forming process. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 58, 941–947 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-011-3448-6
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