Incremental Forming of Sandwich Panels

By Kathryn Jackson, Julian M. Allwood, M. Landert. 2007

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This paper presents a first investigation of the applicability of incremental sheet forming (ISF) to sandwich panels. Two initial tests on various sandwich panel designs established that sandwich panels which are ductile and incompressible are the most suitable for the process. Further tests on a sandwich panel with mild steel face plates and a continuous polypropylene core demonstrated that patterns of deformation and tool forces followed similar trends to a sheet metal. It is concluded that, where mechanically feasible, ISF can be applied to sandwich panels using existing knowledge of sheet metals with the expectation of achieving similar economic benefits. Potentially this will increase the range of applications for which sandwich panels are viable.

Subfields: Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials

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Single point incremental forming: An assessment of the progress and technology trends from 2005 to 2015 (2017, methodology): “In addition, the use of materials in this process has expanded from metallic alloys to include polymers [16, 17], composite panels [18] and shape memory alloys [19], thereby enabling new application areas for this process.”
The mechanics of incremental sheet forming (2009, result): “In contrast to the idealised deformation mechanism described above, the authors (Allwood et al., 2007; Jackson et al., 2007) have recently shown by experimental measurement that straight vectors adjoining corresponding points on the upper and lower surfaces of sheet formed by SPIF remain almost…”