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Incremental Collar Forming Process for the Manufacturing of Branched Tubes and Pipes

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Forming the Future

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Beside the manufacturing of finished parts by Incremental Sheet Metal Forming (ISF), final operations within the process chain can also be realized with this technology. The technological capabilities of performing incremental (hole-)flanging operations for sheet metal parts has been investigated in research context. The current topic focusses on the transfer of the incremental forming technology to manufacture tubular parts. An incremental collar forming process was developed where all motions are executed by the forming tool. Due to the fixed position of the workpiece, tubes, as well as pipes can be branched. Stainless steel tubes made of 1.4404 (316L) with an outer diameter of 54 mm and a wall thickness of 1.5 mm were used for experimental evidence of functional capability of the incremental collaring process. The influence of different pre-hole geometries and forming tool shapes on the properties of the collar (e. g. geometrical accuracy, wall thickness) was investigated.

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Acknowledgments

We gratefully acknowledge the cooperation of our project partners ATG Automations-Technik-Gröditz GmbH & Co. KG and SANHA GmbH & Co. KG as well as the financial support of the “Central Innovation Programme for SMEs” (ZIM) of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy.

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  1. Professorship Forming and Joining, Institute for Machine Tools and Production Processes, Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany

    André Leonhardt & Verena Kräusel

  2. Professorship Production Systems and Processes, Institute for Machine Tools and Production Processes, Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany

    Peggy de Witt, Matthias Rehm & Holger Schlegel

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Correspondence to André Leonhardt .

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

    Glenn Daehn

  2. Northwestern Univ, Evanston, IL, USA

    Jian Cao

  3. University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA

    Brad Kinsey

  4. Technical University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

    Erman Tekkaya

  5. The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

    Anupam Vivek

  6. Gifu University, Gifu, Japan

    Yoshinori Yoshida

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Leonhardt, A., de Witt, P., Rehm, M., Schlegel, H., Kräusel, V. (2021). Incremental Collar Forming Process for the Manufacturing of Branched Tubes and Pipes. In: Daehn, G., Cao, J., Kinsey, B., Tekkaya, E., Vivek, A., Yoshida, Y. (eds) Forming the Future. The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75381-8_35

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