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Thermal modeling in electricity assisted incremental sheet forming

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A thermal model was built to account for the effects of geometrical parameters of sheet specimen, process parameters and material parameters on the temperature increase of the sheet specimen in Electricity-Assisted Incremental Sheet Forming (EISF). In the EISF, the local area of sheet specimen contacting with a forming tool is heated by direct current, which flows through the forming tool to the sheet specimen. EISF experiments of two high strength steel sheets were carried out to validate the thermal model. The thermal model can be integrated into the control program of EISF system to achieve more accurate temperature control.

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Acknowledgments

Junying Min would like to thank the generous support from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation who awarded him a research fellowship at the Ruhr-University Bochum. The authors also appreciate Dr. Christian Magnus for providing the experimental data of the CP-K60/78 steel. The authors would also like to thank the reviewers of the IJFO for their many comments and suggestions to improve the quality of this paper.

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    Junying Min, Patrick Seim, Denis Störkle, Lars Thyssen & Bernd Kuhlenkötter

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Min, J., Seim, P., Störkle, D. et al. Thermal modeling in electricity assisted incremental sheet forming. Int J Mater Form 10, 729–739 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12289-016-1315-6

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